More excellent free science fiction, this time by my friend Arthur H. Manners in Dreamforge.
I was feeding the cuttlefish when a newsreader announced that the Children had crossed the heliopause. My stomach sank as I turned up the TV and watched the newsreader refer to a grainy image in the corner of the screen. All our best telescopes could see of the Children’s starship was a fuzzy white dot sailing into the abyss beyond the edge of the solar system.
“They were serious. They’re actually leaving,” I said.
The cuttlefish could see me talking. A few of them used their chameleon-like skin to conjure yellow haloes on top of their heads.
:: ? ::
I switched on the translator pad strapped to my chest. “Ah guys, where do I even start?”
Filled with science and humanity, a little heartbreak and a lot of hope, this is a great short story by a terrific writer and all-around good human.
I know I’m a little biased, but seriously, my Writers of the Future cohort is the best.
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J.R. Johnson 
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