The forgotten planet: Mystique
Short story no. 2 - “First Contacts” collection
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Earthly year: 2833
Planet: Mystique, under the influence of the Solar Empire
Almost a terrestrial year since the foundation of the first colony on the planet, everything has proceeded normally. However, sometimes, the locals experience feelings of unease. Perhaps it’s due to the absence of any sun. Or maybe because they have yet to discover if there is something behind the impenetrable wall of dense weeping willows, thick as a true wall.
"From the moment she set foot, she couldn't get enough. If she could, she would have embraced it all in a single hug. The endless fields of plants, their soft green stems rising up to 50-70 cm, leafless and ending in clusters of intensely luminous red-to-pink peonies, the low grass forming a dense carpet of the same dark green—all of it gave the impression that the flowers were actually floating above the ground. She walked among them, as if walking on water… each touch creating ripples through the sea of blossoms.
Unaware, she had come very close to the weeping willow wall. She wasn't sure where the name came from, but somehow it seemed to fit these trees perfectly—up to 40 meters tall, with trunks in the same omnipresent shade of dark green that turned almost fluorescent lime green toward the middle, adorned with small pink streaks where countless thin branches originated. These branches fell toward the ground, creating an illusion of perpetual levitation."
Details
- Publication Date
- Jun 19, 2024
- Language
- English
- Category
- Fiction
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Alain Costea
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- Format
- EPUB