2837. Floating © Bruce Goodman 7 September 2023

There were only four of us on the space craft. We were to travel for over a hundred years to arrive at some God-forsaken planet where we were destined to do scientific research. Travelling for so long could be difficult except we put ourselves into a state of inertia. It’s akin to sleep but it’s not quite the same. However to an observer it would look like we were asleep. We had just a week to get to know each other before submitting to the pill. We would “awaken” fresh and almost at our journey’s end. Of course the trip back would be the same and we would arrive on Planet Earth some several hundred years later. We knew all this before we volunteered for the flight. I had what I thought was going to be an advantage. My husband of several months was one of the three others travelling. So I would “awaken” with my husband and return to Planet Earth with my husband. But there was a catch… My husband turned out to be not quite the man I presumed he was. Of the four members of the crew one was the sexiest man I had every laid eyes on. And when stuck in a not overly big space craft things can get a bit intense. When we got a quiet moment to ourselves we made a plan. If you ever come across someone floating in space in a state of inertia you’ll know who it is. Contact Author Back to Index Next Story Previous Story