Shapeless Dawn

Dawn on the planet was something almost indescribable to someone on Earth simply because their frame of reference is so tied to the planet our species once called our only home. To call it a wonder was to be a comedy man, because the atmosphere was clear as crystal to the extent I felt weak at the knees when I first walked off my ship and looked up to the sky. In full view were the neighboring planets, distilled as if through the lens of a telescope cast of glass and diamonds. But my uneasiness came from the anomaly a far off, and often it felt as if I was caught in its gaze. I felt it spoke to me, sometimes summoning imagery of the face of my wife or my children, sometimes a nightmare from ...View all