The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz

Author:Ferrett Steinmetz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2019-06-10T23:00:00+00:00

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There Is Only Now

For the rest of his life, whenever Kenna feels terror, he remembers the hollow boom as Montgomery was shot into space.

That boom was every noise Kenna feared: heavy metals slamming into each other at ship-crumpling speeds, the roar of wind pouring through the hatch, the thump of the porthole window flexing inward as the pressure differential hit.

Kenna screamed, his ears popping, the tornado sucking his fluttering robe downward into the breach …

Then he looked out the undulating porthole—which was, against all odds, holding—and saw Montgomery sailing toward the stars.

Her smooth arc outward was like watching mathematical formulae and aesthetic theory fuck. The long bungee cords unspooled behind her like ripples in a pond, the sun spinning into view just in time to illuminate her bronze skin, this dot of humanity rocketing through the cold void like a middle finger thrust against the universe’s emptiness.

Her expression was rhapsodic, her fears melting away into the galactic wonder spinning around her.

Whenever Kenna fears the worst is going to come, he remembers Montgomery, how everything bad turned out okay, and holds fast to a faith that things will be all right.

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