#16 in Scifi as of 12.1.18
THE FICTION OF SCIENCE (My collection of Science fiction entries)
1. A MATTER OF FACT... When Death Looks Just Like You.
What happens when you know how you are going to die? Read the story of a Ayla, who befriended death...
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Ticotan wasn’t a station I usually saw on my way to and from earth. It was something I stumbled upon when I was low on fuel.
We don’t usually end up going to that area especially because it’s the home of dangerous wormholes, time portals and what not. If you are sucked into one unawares, you’ll be lost.
Ticotan looked quite modern from the outside. Entirely powered by solar power harnesses, a titanium and Kevlar structure with glistening steel frames looked quite ominous in the way it shone with the light of the Andromeda.
A gut feeling told me I had landed up in the wrong place, the moment I touched the empty refill station on Ticotan.
The place reeked of rusted metal and a miasma of formaldehyde hung in the air. The entire station seemed to be plunged into a massive power cut as no light reached my eyes.
My first thoughts were to get my gas and ignore the gut feeling I had. But there was no one whom I could pay and ending up in the intergalactic jail at the age of 47 was not a lucrative option. I counseled my mind that I was going to search for any sign of life in the abyss of death.
