andrew paul cannon

Tag: universe

  • Contemplating the Cosmos: Standing on the Shoreline

                I stand outside and look at the stars with wonder, noting the great complexity of systems and the great emptiness within the cosmos that I have read about. To think that I look with wonder at the same universe that is observed by great thinkers like the late Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. Yet…

  • Fusion: Year One (Shorty Short Story)

    “Mr. Purdue, Mr. Purdue, are you alright. I need you to wake up, sir!” A young man shook an older man gently, but frantically, as he feared for his life. “Sir!” his voice more elevated, “The pilot is dead and no one else knows how to fly a space ship! Sir!” Purdue pained himself to…

  • Fusion: a shorty short story for you

    Journal Entry 248 [Lunar 1, 400] It’s been 400 years since we entered the Promised Land. Today is the anniversary. We missed the apocalypse. This story has been handed down through the generations. They told us the story of our exodus from the earth and of how God saved us before we knew what was…