Prologue
_Prologue_ _We see an old man, easily over one hundred and twenty. Wrinkles are etched into his face, their imitable topology telling the unmistakable life story of the man but with no words. He wears thick glasses and his skin is old and the...
Chapter one
_Chapter one_ She fumbled with the door to the professor's office; the handle was far too slim, far too curved for her paws to grasp at easily. In her nervousness her hand slipped and she accidentally punched the door, creating a loud shock and...
Chapter two
_Chapter two_ LIGO was built as an observatory- _Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory_, to be precise. Since the observation of the first gravitational waves in 2015, several other gravitational wave observatories had been built...
Chapter three
_Chapter three_ _She sleeps there in her crib, resting on her back with her legs and arms curled up. At this age, she still looks just like a puppy- the relative sizes of the various parts of the body, such as the arms relative to the legs,...
Chapter four
_Chapter four_ Catherine did not know what to think about the NASA facility. Outside in the field, before she and Weir had entered the bunker- what was out there? From the looks of it, it seemed to resemble an underground launch facility, designed to...
A long night
_A long night_ ©2016 (Jaffea.sofurry.com) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ _Once I stood on the edge of a bridge,_ _strolled along the...
Chapter five
_Chapter five_ “_Who you calling a pinhead?_" Patrick asked defensively, his eyes squinted and conical pink head pointed in a manner decidedly similar to a bowling pin. Laurie let out that adorable giggle and threw her head back laughing. That...
Chapter six
_Chapter six_ Space is big- very, very, _very_ big. So voluminous is space, in fact, that if one views the night sky, they are actually seeing the light of stars hundreds to thousands to billions of light years away- they are consequently seeing light...