The Falling
ShortStory 4,870 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"We have only legends now for when our ancestors first saw the monster. They saw it shred light as it approached, then devoured whole worlds. They ran the calculations—they still used machines for that, used machines for everything—and they knew our rock world would not escape the hungry maw. They came up with a solution. It was insufficient, or too late, or both. But we’re still here. Still falling."
Content warnings 1
death
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.