Let There Be Light: A Short Story
By C. Gockel
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Beneath the harsh gaze of Proxima Centauri, a lone researcher is battling against time. To survive and find her way home, she'll need more than science.
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Let There Be Light - C. Gockel
Let There Be Light
A Short Story
C. Gockel
C. Gockel
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About Let There Be Light
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About Let There Be Light
Beneath the harsh gaze of Proxima Centauri, a lone researcher is battling against time. To find her way home, she’ll need more than science.
Let There Be Light
Beneath the gaze of Proxima Centauri, I am locked in a life or death struggle. The research station’s main power cable will not budge. Panting in the station’s oxygen-poor air, weighed down by the higher gravity of planet Proxima Centauri-B, I wrestle until I finally succeed in detaching it from the remaining barely operational oxygen converter. Instantly, my ears are pierced by a wail of protest from the fission capsule. For a moment I am unsure; my instincts scream that this is madness. But then I take a breath. It might work, and even if it doesn’t, at least my last moments will have meant something.
I make my choice. Fumbling, I manage to reroute the line to what I’m calling my Lightsphere.
The wailing warning cuts off. Without the hum of the oxygen converter, the research station is eerily silent.
I look up through the thick glass of the skylight to Proxima Centauri. The star is a red dwarf, and without an atmosphere to warp its hue, it looks more like what it really is. In the velvety darkness of the vacuum, Proxima Centauri is a brilliant orange flame.
I shouldn’t have looked through the window in the crematorium. The flames around the coffin were burned in my mind, and I couldn’t unsee them as I stood in front of the whiteboard.
My dry erase marker slipped to the floor. I was a ghost, immaterial, unable to hold onto it… unable to hold onto my emotions. The equations on the board blurred.
Bowing my head, I