Forum: Writers


Subject: Morning on the snowball

tjames opened this issue on Sep 14, 2002 ยท 10 posts


tjames posted Sat, 14 September 2002 at 4:03 PM

Only a fool would come to this godforsaken place. It was so far away from the sun that its light just cracked through the cliffs showing they were there. The atmosphere was frozen, but not as one homogeneous substance: Frozen methane would cover one cliff, frozen ammonia another, at still another oxygen would sparkle on the rocks. The cold brought all of the elements down, and a man that knew what was what could make billions. Starships couldnt carry all of the substances they needed as a gas or a liquid, but the solid, yes, stored in the cold. Food processors needed the methane and ammonia and the frozen oxygen for rockets as well. Only a fool would come here, a fool that wanted to be rich.