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The Goodbye — CORTEX COLLECTIVE

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The earth beneath her was warm and damp and moving. Sweat glued her hands to her gloves. The metal edge of her helmet dug into her neck. Above her, only a silver-green sliver of moon glowed, pinned between the black sky and the black earth. If there were stars, she couldn’t make them out – and somewhere, people were screaming. It took more strength than she expected to push herself upright. The longer she spent off the surface, the harder it was to adjust to Earth’s gravity when her feet touched down. Now she felt as if her pack was filled with bricks instead of oxygen, and her limbs and head pulsed with the same sharp bursts of pain. She couldn’t remember landing. She couldn’t remember the end of her mission, or whether they had made it through the last of their scheduled tasks. She could remember, though, that she was meant to land five miles from land, in the Pacific Ocean. Wherever she was, it was not an ocean. Her arm itched. Absently, Daphne reached over to scratch it, but instea

The Goodbye written by lee johns illustrated by nathan apfel composed by antonis christou < Back Issue 3 Home Next > “And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.” – William Shakespeare, King Lear O - 10.65 Hours The earth beneath her was warm and damp and moving. Sweat glued her hands to her gloves. The metal edge of her helmet dug into her neck. Above her, only a silver-green sliver of moon glowed, pinned between the black sky and the black earth. If there were stars, sh

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