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Icarus – April 25th (approximate), 2099
April 25th (approximate), 2099 It’s been fourteen hours since they left. That is a very long time to be gone. The sounds have gotten louder, more insistent. I can’t sleep. How long has it been since I...
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Icarus – April 26th (approximate), 2099
April 26th (approximate), 2099 Oh Jesus. Oh my God, what have I done? I let them in while they were asleep and then I… I just left. Went to the engine rooms and sealed myself in. Why am I not dead?...
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Icarus – April 27th, 2099
April 27th, 2099 Sarah stands before me, her hands on my cheeks. I look into her eyes, feel her breath on my chin as she smiles. She hasn’t done that in so long. It’s a dream, the past, a past that is...
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Icarus – April 28th, 2099
April 28th, 2099 The lights on the Icarus have all gone out. I float in the darkness of the engine rooms, slowly feeling a chill creep into me. The Song is my only company since the screaming stopped....
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Icarus – April 29th, 2099
April 29th, 2099 There is nothing brave about me. You need only look back at my previous entries to understand that, but there is something inside me besides fear. These past few days I’ve been living...
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Icarus – April 30th, 2099
April 30th, 2099 What have I done? Sarah will not come to me! She stands on the other side of the sealed doors and turns her back on me! Sarah, oh Sarah, why? I… what have I done to the controls? Why...
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Icarus – May 1st, 2099
May 1st, 2099 How do you say goodbye to life? As it turns out, you do it as quickly as possible. My computer’s power is all but gone and I have just enough to seal away one last entry. It will be...
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Icarus: Epilogue – August 9th, 2143 Subjective/August 9th, 2145 Objective
August 9th, 2143 Subjective/August 9th, 2145 Objective AFTER ACTION REPORT #452 SYSTEM REPORTING: ALPHA CENTAURI; PRIMARY ALPHA COMMAND: CSS PERSHING, 4TH FLEET CO: 06 CPT KILLIAN, JAMES The wreck...
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The Space Cantina – A reflection on Icarus, a brief interlude and a...
So Icarus has come to an end. The story was much longer in execution than I’d originally thought it would be. This wasn’t a “story that grew in the telling” exactly. It was the author still feeling his...
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The Space Cantina – Things and Stuff
So it’s been a while hasn’t it? No, I haven’t stopped writing or dropped off the face of the Earth or anything like that. This new job has really crunched my time, first with launch of our game and...
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