The Siren
Sometimes someone will drown in another part of the river and I can’t help, because the river is large and I am only one person.
Sometimes someone will drown in another part of the river and I can’t help, because the river is large and I am only one person.
"But she doesn’t lie still, she continues to thrash and moan, spraying blood across the ground and staining the foam at her mouth red."
"The astronomer had calculated where the planet we were looking for would lay: the “Goldilocks” zone, where the star’s heat would neither be so close that the planet’s water would boil nor so far that it would freeze—the temperature at which life was likely to form."