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#PennedPossibilities 72 — MC POV: Describe a recent dream. 

I woke feeling claustrophobic. I flailed my hands, found them gloved, clinked the fishbowl surrounding my head. I blinked. Hadn't I just read a newspaper article of the 200th anniversary of profound discovery? 

I focused—and saw them: Plates of glass... No /crystal/ floating, gliding, maintaining position. Bright searchlights gleamed, each a minor star. Fuzzy lights: Nebulae. Two-hundreds standards away, I saw an egg-shaped crystal-scaph. White with black-orientation lines and the words HOME-SPACE. It got smaller as I watched. 

A daemon had lifted the vehicle on a wish and a miracle. A night angel maneuvered it once in space.

Space. 

Space! I was...

My tether flapped around, spewing frost. Snapped.

I jerked, starting rotating, A blue marble rotated into view and I screamed. 

[Author retains copyright. From a current SF WiP]

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