
The Last Moon
Release Date: Friday, February 14th, 2025
Pages: 11 pages
In 'The Last Moon' by Jon Schlosser, an astronaut grapples with his mortality while stranded on a lush but deadly moon, reflecting on the fate of explorers before him.
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Stranded on a moon in the vastness of space, an astronaut must come to terms with his own mortality, as so many explorers before him.
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It’s strange to know that it’s the end.
He stands on the cliff of this lost moon. A rich and exotic jungle around him. Enshrouded by a dark canopy of trees like he’s never seen before. He hasn’t seen anything alive, but the vegetation is everywhere. Perhaps a fertile ground for the birth of something. He doesn’t know, and he never will.
The suit sensors are going crazy. As beautiful as this place is, he would be dead in less than a second if he took off his helmet. They all knew that when they came down, but what else could they do?
What else was there?
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It’s strange to know that it’s the end.
He stands on the cliff of this lost moon. A rich and exotic jungle around him. Enshrouded by a dark canopy of trees like he’s never seen before. He hasn’t seen anything alive, but the vegetation is everywhere. Perhaps a fertile ground for the birth of something. He doesn’t know, and he never will.
The suit sensors are going crazy. As beautiful as this place is, he would be dead in less than a second if he took off his helmet. They all knew that when they came down, but what else could they do?
What else was there?