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. There was no gravity to claim him, only the cold, indifferent reach of the stars. In his silver suit, he was a misplaced spark, a bit of lint on a dark carpet.

If you knew you had one hour left and could only speak to the people around you, what would your last words be?

The story begins immediately after a catastrophic rocket explosion in deep space. The crew members, cast into the void, are drifting away from each other in various directions. Pointless Philosophical Asides Final Communications

The men stopped arguing. In their various trajectories—toward the moon, the sun, or the deep dark—they all looked. The meteor shower caught them, a kaleidoscope of tumbling stones. To the others, Hollis was no longer a man; he was a glint of light amongst a billion other glints.

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Hollis smiled inside his helmet. “In the first version, the man burns up and thinks, I’m beautiful . In the better version — the one nobody talks about — he thinks, I’m beautiful, and someone will remember the pattern. ”