Paul Walsh
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Siren Call
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. That was obviously true for the more traditional method, but Maria always thought that was a very limited way of thinking. After all, what was a distress signal if not a scream for help? Where the void of space swallowed sound waves, their electromagnetic cousins ventured forth undaunted. People saw that idea as morbid the few times she brought it up, to them it called forth ghost stories of phantom signals and the voices of the dead living on through radio transmissions, but Maria never thought of it that way. It always felt more inspirational to her; Humanity finding a way to transmit across unfathomable distances a very simple idea, arguably the basis for humanity as a concept - “I am here and I am in distress, please help me.” And it was her and her crew’s job to help.
By Paul Walsh2 years ago in Fiction