doing a bit of review of my last published book - Prosthetic Amalgams III
Here is one from it.
No Where Left to Go
by Kenny A. Chaffin
Just before the sun exploded we popped out of the system. Jin was always pushing it right to the edge closer and closer every time. Adrenaline junkie – I guess we all were. Each time we jumped we lost thousands or hundreds of thousands of years. That was just part of the physics. Everyone we’d known were long gone. We might be the only intelligent creatures in the universe for all we knew -- or cared. The universe was growing older and we stayed the same. The stars dying, the dark growing, the universe dimming and us laughing and loving. And finally we were there, at the end of the universe. Just few muted dispersed red giants hardly glowing at all and this one bright late-born star at the end of time, at the end of life. We watched as it grew. Expanding and then collapsed back on itself in a final death throe. We watched as it exploded, the blast reaching out, rushing at us at lightspeed, Jin wearing a shit-eating grin, finger poised over the jump button. Justine looking worried. Jin pressed the button. Nothing happened. We stared at one another in horror as the nova tore us apart.
