[Sf] A Future Lost (T)

"A Future Lost"
By EzloSpirit/SightSpirit


Caleb wept. The teenager was stranded on a moon billions of lightyears away from his home planet. The boy's small shuttle had had its engine torn away into the cosmos upon impact with a wandering asteroid. That teenage boy was Caleb.

A sixteen-year-old kid with greasy, brown, so-messy-it-looks-like-a-bomb-went-off hair, Caleb wore the classic black and blue jumpsuit that all licensed Space Travelers were required to wear while exploring the universe. His glasses had no lenses; they were lost in the shuttle when the asteroid hit.

"Why me?" he cried, perfectly aware that not even his echo would answer. The lost boy curled up into a ball. He had no way of knowing how much longer his jumpsuit's life-support system would last. Its nano-batteries had to be nearly empty. The suit had been changing the empty non-existence that was the airless space around him into oxygen for hours.

Hopeless, Caleb began thinking about what he would never be able to do. He knew he would never again see his mother. He knew that he would never kiss his life-long crush, Samantha. He knew that he would share the same fate as his father. For as a Time Traveler had once told him, that was the way it was meant to be.

Caleb knew it was a big mistake. He should never have trusted that illegal Time Traveler. Jenkins Gollth was known for enticing unsuspecting victims into Time Traveling with him to a time he knew his victim could connect to. A time when a friend or family member died. A time when the victim would die along with his friend or relative.

And that was why Caleb, his jumpsuit's life-support system exhausted at last, laid down to an eternal rest. Right beside his father....

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I made this up as I was writing it. I think the ending was pretty darn creepy. Nevertheless, I'm impressed with myself.

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This was definitely an interesting read. The ending wasn't so much creepy as it was sad, though.

You should consider maybe expanding this into a larger story, as I'm kind of curious as to why how he ended up on the moon to begin with.

That seems like a good idea! I'll do my best to expand the story. I will probably have Caleb recall the events leading up to the accident instead of think about what he wouldn't get to do. This would make for a longer story.