Those Who Went
ShortStory 520 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"The wide yawning sky. We stare at unfamiliar stars, seeking familiar patterns in their strange configurations. Here is a cup and there a bear. A queen reclined and all the fish in the endless seas. The universe is more boundless than we know. Maybe than we can know. We left everything behind for this, everything. We won’t return home—can’t return home."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Lightspeed, where the author gets the click.