#quiet sci-fi

[taudalpoi]

Driving Alone, Thinking of You in Deep Space | Somewhere beyond the maps, the road keeps rewriting itself, smooth and infinite, as if it knows what you are trying not to say. Headlights become a small, steady promise in the dark. The stars do not answer, but they listen.

[firstoccupier]

The One Who Stopped in Childress

April 29, 2026 The arrival was not announced. There was no sound that anyone could later agree on, no light that could be pointed to with certainty, no moment that marked the event as having begun. There was simply a point at which he was there. That point happened to be just off U.S. 287, outside Childress, Texas. He stood for a while, observing. The road moved steadily. Trucks passed. A…

The One Who Stopped in Childress