Exploration: 2-line Spooky Stories from the Black

In the distance the glittering fires dance
Taunting me, Will I drift back home I wonder? Perhaps in a million years....
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Pulling back on the yoke I swam through a sea of rainbow fire,
through the incandescent arch and out into the unknown
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The ball of diamond hard neutronium sang to me the siren's song.
In one second I gave it rain. A rain of my atoms as the gravity ripped me apart.
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I shut everything down and listened.
Silence. And yet...a soft voice drifted up from the world below.
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For the first time in weeks - he could see green.
He had almost forgotten what it looked like.
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The moon looked angry with its bright red desert,
Almost like a child having a tantrum.
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Nine rings for this planet were forged,
But here below him was one ring that ruled them all.
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There was something out there. Vast and silent.
Something was blocking out the stars.
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An ancient mariner once said that man would only find his soul once he is at sea.
In this ocean you don't find your soul, you find an abyss.
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Creeping over the sunward side came a brilliant blue light,
A pristine guide in the black of space. Home. He was finally home...
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Screams. Moaning. Weeping. Coming from all directions. Each rock, each asteroid in these nine rings used to be a child, a woman, a man...

An acrid, sulfuric smell fills the cockpit. A reflection in the canopy. A heavy hand on my shoulder.

"You've made it home, my son"
 
The seat to my right is empty, the seat to my left the same.
Why can't I remember if that was the case before we jumped?
 
At 23,000 LY out the cooling system in cargo bay 1 failed and the animal meat turned rancid. I haven't eaten in ten days and I'm SO hungry, but oh god, the stench of it...
 
There's a faint hiss of gas escaping...
My copilot has fallen asleep again



Another star, another scan, another jump
Another bottle



I jump into a system 7,500Ly from known space
My scanners pick up a shopping trolley.
 
The ships cat smiles at me as it sits and purrs on my lap, and I smile back.
Then I remember, I don't have a ships cat.
 
30,000 LY from home, admiring the gas giant in front of me, when I suddenly realise...
Gas giants have eyes. Hundreds and hundreds of eyes.
 
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