Have You Ever Seen a Neutron Star?
by D.E. Quesada

I had to squint my eyes, because if I didn't I only saw my reflection in the glass. There it was. The objective of my mission, my obsession. There was a time when I was still Lazarus Jones, and my only thoughts were of the planet that I had left behind and of the few friends and family that no longer even exist. How long do you have to be away before a planet is no longer your home?

Iris is my home now, this isolation chamber others call a ship. How long have I been here? I don't even know how to answer that. What really is time when you travel at this speed? I count; one, two, three, and hundreds of years have now passed on Earth. How I have grown to love the miracle of time dilation. The physicists told me that traveling close to light speed changes your mass. You become infinite; you become your own universe within the universe. . . .[continue reading]

The Other Side of the Sky
by Dan Davis

A Warm Respite
by Lawrence Zielinski