Starship Horizon
Category: Sci-Fi
The market was bustling with merchants, their voices a chorus of bargains and boasts.
The letter was still on the table, unopened, as it had been for three days.
He had been waiting for her for what felt like an eternity.
The stars that night seemed closer than they had any right to be.
She had not expected to see him again, not after all these years.
Some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.
A knock at the door changed everything.
The train pulled out of the station with a long, mournful whistle.
The end.