When Time Tilts Backwards

The magnetic light blue protection nets stirred in the early morning breeze, their strands stretching out high over the colony rooftops. We installed the nets a week earlier expecting this year's migration of the flock to pass overhead any day now. Life on planet Casper was mundane all year long. The weather almost never changed as the planet's slow rotation took 15 Earth years to fully rotate, turning seasons last so long, you forgot they ever change. Yet every 90 days like clockwork, the massive flock of the Pearl Eagle would buzz overhead as they circle the planet searching for prey. We never found a way to hunt the majestic birds and it took us generations to figure out the flock coul...View all