I gasp hard, one quivering breath after the other. My chest clenches like it’s crushing inward because there is not enough air to fill the lungs. The spacesuit keeps me swaddled in like a cocoon, only two inches away from becoming one with nothingness. It is too tight. I can't feel my fingers.

“Oxygen level at 35%.” eUDORA's soothing voice inundates the limited room around me, but my ears are still buzzing.

I blink to clear up my vision and try to focus on the helmet’s HUD data when the whorl of contorted metal passes briefly in front of my eyes. "Tom", I whisper, and my heart comes undone in one million pieces. After a brief second, the muddled inkiness of the void seizes my vision once more.

It was supposed to be a routine check on the cooling conducts of the research bay. A gallivanting stroll while securely anchored with my mag-boots to the outer haul, and I am no stranger to spacewalking. But I am a stranger to being thrust out into space and becoming an insignificant speck of dust against such a majestic creation. I am a stranger to death. We all are.

How filled with life and light was the night’s sky as I looked upwards from my parent’s lawn. How full of wonders it seemed, when I embraced it with my gaze from another's loving embrace. How blood-chillingly gargantuan is the pitch darkness that surrounds me now.

I need to focus and keep my bearings on the remains of the spacecraft. I need to think.

“eUDORA," my voice is shaky, "are any distress calls coming from the Gauntlet?”

“None.”

“Let’s – Let’s try hailing them, see if anyone answer.” Like moving through layer upon layer of snow, invisible needles make my muscles spasm as I bring my hands together to operate the control panel and adjust the signal for long-range.

The repeating sound of the call bleeps a couple of times and I instinctively turn my head searching for what’s left of the spaceship. For sure, I must be spinning away from it, and I better figure out soon the direction and the rotation speed.

The beeping sound stops.

“Dam it! Pick up!” My voice is hoarse, and I punch in the command to hail again. "Tom, pick up…" I whisper, ignoring the tears swelling behind my eyes. Despair creeps in from my subconscious. “God, I hope he’s not dead.”

“There has been no contact with the crew in the 20 minutes since the event.”

eUDORA’s calmness gets on my nerves with every passing minute. How I miss Tom murmuring my name in the swirls of passion. What I wouldn't give for a strained, hoarse voice like mine, dripping with despair and humanity, to take eUDORA’s place. But the only answer I get is silence. The only presence I have to cling to out of this mess is eUDORA.

“Alright – alright. eUDORA, set a trajectory for the Gauntlet.”

Dotting lines take shape on the visor, disappearing as soon as they form.

“Cannot establish a clear trajectory.”

“Compensate for Gantlet’s new orbit, damn it!” I yell, wasting more oxygen than I should.

Finally, there is a green, stable, lifeline pointing to the spacecraft. Mangled as it is, it remains all I have to call hope. A haze slowly takes over my thoughts, making me shake my head and blink a couple of times. The indicator shows oxygen level at 25%. One deep breath is all I need, as long as I can still take one. I must think.

Think.

A short, calculated burst could put me on a path towards the Gauntlet. Releasing the pressure from the oxygen tanks should do the trick, but I must time it precisely. It would be like catching a fly with a thread if the fly was more precious than air.

While inputting the overrides, eUDORA thinks it wise to share an opinion. “Warning. Releasing the pressure from the oxygen tanks will leave the oxygen levels dangerously low.”

“Why, thank you for the obvious, smart pants,” I snicker back, with a weird sense of satisfaction. I never thought sharing banter with someone, even an AI, could feel so heartening. Must be the reason why banter was first invented but no one realised it. Meanings get lost over time. People get lost.

My head gets flooded with gibberish like it often does, courtesy of my attention deficit. Not even the looming shadow of death could get my full attention. But I must concentrate.

I set the timer and steady my breath, anticipating the sudden change in acceleration. I am shooting for the stars, but I am clinging on to hope. As I am hurled across space, crackling sounds and the stench of burning plastic mixed in with overheated metal are not good signs. The HUD flashes intermittently and no indicators are clear. I can't see the spaceship anymore, neither on the HUD, nor out there as the beacon of home in the vastity of space.

Am I aimlessly drifting or dead? But the worst of all, why has eUDORA gone silent?

“eUDORA? eUDORA, are you still there?”

No answer. There is a void inside the void of helplessness, and I can taste its bitterness. A void eUDORA’s soothing voice filled. So what if I found it annoying at times? Bring it back.

My arm stings, probably where the short circuit fused the connectors, but I welcome the pain. It means I am still alive and for as long as I am alive, I will feel whatever I need to feel. But I am alone.

All alone. Is this it? I rest my head on the back support trying to come to terms with the inevitable when all I want to do is scream.

Out of the blue, a poem Tom recited while trailing star-charts on my back comes to me. “Do not go gentle– Do not go gentle into–” I search for the words out loud, but my mind fights me, and I can’t remember the rest.

eUDORA’s voice blasts through the speakers and tears are finally free to trail down my cheeks.

“Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light…”

Oxygen level at 1%.

*Warning graphic content

The ruckus in the reception room could compete with the sounds of the busy New York street underneath Sara’s window. Through her closed office door, she could clearly hear a man was gradually raising his voice at Vera. The poor receptionist was new but quite competent. Hardly any reason for anyone to bash her like this. Sara tore herself away from the supplies report needed for tonight’s Christmas party and came to see what it was all about.

A guy stood perched on the front desk, a little too close for Vera’s comfort, and pointed God knows what, with his manicured finger on the surface of the desk. His hair was freshly cut and ruffled. His beige Burberry coat had buckles on the sleeves and near its raised collar, a la Tom Cruise-Top Gun style. He looked young and entitled.

The heated discussion attracted the attention of the other employees on their floor who peeked their heads to see what was going on. The least they needed was a distraction ahead of the upcoming version release.

“Vera, what seems to be the problem here?” Sara asked.

The man raised his head and a smirk appeared on his lips as he righted himself. His daring hazel eyes lingered a little too long on the wrong areas of her body. Men usually smirked and checked her out for she did not look a day over 22 despite pushing 31.

“The gentlemen here – ”

“Mr Jung Jr.” he added, not tearing his gaze from Sara.

“Mr Jung Jr. says he is Mr Jung’s grandson and insists on waiting in his office.”

“I am sorry, Mr Jung Jr., but Mr Jung is out and he did not announce he was expecting anyone. Waiting in his office is out of the question. You are welcome to wait here in the reception,” and Sara pointed at a set of very comfortable armchairs. “We could bring you some coffee or tea.”

“My grandfather bought your company and you expect me to wait by the door? Like any loser?” He blurted with an incredulous expression.

He did say those words and they were not a joke, rubbing Sara in all the wrong ways, muscles tensing under her olive skin.

“What are you? His secretary?” he continued in the same uptight tone. “Go ahead and call him yourself. He will tell you who I am.”

“I am the Office Manager, Sir. And I can not call our CEO as he is meeting important clients. I highly doubt this requires us to disturb him. But I have the perfect place for someone of your status.” Sara came closer and took his arm. The man did not oppose as he seemed to enjoy her proximity.

Being close to him Sara was hit by his luxurious cologne mixed in with some alcohol. And it was not even noon. She wondered if he would be the type who blamed his drinking for his mistakes. That could explain his overbearing exuded self-importance.

All absorbed in her presence and in his entitlement, he did not notice he was being led to the exit door until it was too late. “What do you –” but could not formulate his question, because Sara closed the door in his face, wishing him a good day.

“And do not let him in again,” she said, turning to Vera. The doorbell buzzed without stop and the irked man banged and shouted threats from outside until Sara added loud enough for him to hear. “And if he continues like that, call security please, Vera.”

A troublemaker through and through, he had no problem shouting at her, through the door, something about a Bitch. Sara did not care. She had tough skin, forged in Queens, on the wrong side of the tracks. And she was a busy Queens bee who had a lot to do ahead of tonight’s Christmas party.

By night time, all of her colleagues were already headed to the reception at the hotel from across the street. Sara had to stay behind to draft the final bills before calling it a day.

When getting to a party, it’s better to be late than never.

She pulled out the little dark green dress with sequins from the dress cover and changed in her office, then pulled out a mirror to fix her makeup and hair. Her olive-green eyes stared back at her with some unwanted bags under them. Her eye and skin colour came as a package, courtesy of her Italian grandmother and might just be what saved her precious time getting ready. Good skin needed not much cover and a simple brown eyeliner would do wonders. When she checked herself again she thought she did not look 20. Perhaps a very exhausted 29 years old. She shrugged it off.

Her ex always complained about her looking like coming from a train wreck every time she got home. Perhaps that whore, who will not be named, that he cheated on her with would look better after working 10 hours a day with her eyes stuck in a laptop screen.

She did not miss him. Good riddance. But she did miss something.

Out, in the chilly air, she pulled her coat around her and checked for cars before crossing on the other side. Nighttime in the city around this neighbourhood was eerie quiet. Steam columns danced their way out of the manhole covers like ghosts on the wet pavement. Sirens, calling for each other in the distance, were replaced by music as soon as she passed through the revolving doors of the hotel.

The dance floor was overflowing with people, celebrating a successful release and a night out paid for by the company. Sara avoided dancing for now. Perhaps after a couple of drinks. She sat at the bar and ordered two Dry Martini. After drinking the first glass she felt a heated stare drilling in her back. She turned but found no one. Only people letting loose to the dance moves. She gulped down the second glass and hit the dance floor. A sure recipe to make herself invisible to anyone staring at her.

She let down her hair and swayed to the music put on by the DJ. A couple of the girls from the office recognised her and came to dance together. She felt liberated until another body slowly glued itself on her back, following the same rhythm as she was. Strangely, she was not creeped out. A lot of things are allowed on the dance floor. She pulled her hair to the side with intend to glance at who was behind when foreign hands came to grab her waist and helped her turn around, coming eye to eye with a somewhat handsome face.

The same face she threw out the door this morning.

He smirked at her, then leaned closer to her ear, taking advantage of her shock. “Not the so stuck up after a couple of drinks I take. Mind if I buy you some more?”

Sara pushed him away and shouted, hoping it would be loud enough to make herself heard over the music. “The drinks are already paid for.” She moved past him and headed in the direction of the bar because she had no other direction to head for. The man followed her and sat next to her on a stool.

“Cranberry vodka and whatever she had before. It did her good,” he said to the bartender, while Sara rolled her eyes and turned her attention to her colleagues, dancing.

He waited for the drinks to be ready before handing over the Dry Martini. “Since we are sharing drinks, we could share our names as well. I’m Lucas, Lucas Jung. And you are?”

Sara looked at him sideways. She did not want to take the drink. She’d better not take the drink. Why did she take the damned drink?

After a first sip, she replied in an ice-cold tone, “Sara Daniels,” and put aside the glass, no longer gulping it down in one shot. She better keep focused.

“Yes, yes, the Office Manager, right? Better call yourself Office Guardian.” He displayed an insatiable grin. “Hey, we started on the wrong foot. I am sorry if I was a bother earlier.”

Sara huffed at him then turned on her rotating chair to ignore him once more.

“You could say sorry too, you know,” Lucas continued. “I did ask my grandfather to give you a raise for defending that office of his like a lioness.”

She wanted to get up and leave, annoyed for becoming his joke target, but he gently grabbed her arm.

“Hey, I am sorry, I really am,” he said with enough sincerity to make something shift inside of her. She stared at his daring fingers wrapped around her arm, then into his eyes.

Before she remained a prisoner in that hazel abys, she leaned over, “You wanna dance?”

Lucas smiled and nodded. Sara headed back to the dance floor not checking to see if he was coming. She knew he was close behind. When he put his hands on her again she turned and came even closer, swaying her body, wrapping her arms around his neck and teasing him. He stared at her as a boy caught with his hand in the candy jar. Not knowing if he was about to be punished, but unwilling to let go of the candy.

“You – you wanna go upstairs? I’m staying in the penthouse.”

Sara grinned at him. “Of course you are,” and she continued to sway to the music.

After some time and some awkward glances at her, he asked again, looking out of place from having to repeat the question. “So? You want to go up?”

She liked to put him in difficulty and remained silent. In turn, she unwrapped her arm from around his neck and continued to dance by herself. Now that he was delving in uncertainty, she could tease him some more. But Lucas took her by the hand and led her out of the dance floor and the party room.

Sara stayed with him, as they passed the front desk and reached the elevator. He still kept her hand in his, barely grasping her fingers. It felt cold, moist and soothing. She could easily pull it out, yet she wanted to see where all this would lead. It did occur to her he might assault her, but she had a blue belt in karate, courtesy of her Chuck Norris obsessed father, and she would not feel sorry to inflict some pain if he deserved it.

During the elevator ride, she kept staring at him but he avoided returning the favour. Perhaps he was afraid to start a conversation that might lead to her leaving. Once inside the penthouse, he set aside his suit jacket on the couch.

“Some wine?” he inquired, sifting through a couple of bottles from a dedicated bar and picking one. He kept talking while opening the bottle, “I wish I could brag about my personal taste, but I am afraid this is the hotel’s selection. It looks promising.”

Sara remained under the archway connecting the small lobby with the main room. She looked around. It smelled of potpourri and bleach. The city was peeking in from the two stories high windows. To her right was the bathroom. The bed could be glimpsed on the mezzanine. She wondered if she should let herself in or turn around and leave with a lame excuse.

“This was a mistake,” she went for the truth and for the door.

Lucas dashed to stop her, “Hey, hey, wait!” he tried to grab her shoulder but his hand recoiled back with a screech. “Auch! What do you have there? Pins and needles? Jesus!”

Sara was surprised to see his finger bleeding and instinctively looked at her shoulder pad. It had big holographic sequins and they were sharp. “You cut yourself? What are you? 8?”

“I’m 23! Thanks for the compliment.” He still had a sense of humour despite winching in pain like a kid.

“Alright, let me see that,” she came closer to assess his wound and entered together in the bathroom. She put his finger under the faucet and looked around the hotel amenities but found no disinfectant, nor a bandaid. Five-star hotel rubbish. Luckily she was always prepared. She dug around her purse and took out the hand sanitiser and a bandage.

“Well, now I am impressed,” he joked while looking at her as she mended his finger. “I didn’t expect to get hurt before our first date ended.”

“Oh, is this a date?”

He did not reply right away. Instead, he stared into her eyes and came a little closer. “I want to kiss you,” he murmured.

Sara said nothing, nor did she move away. She stayed there holding his gaze until his lips smacked on hers. At least he was good with his tongue. The swirls he went for sent shivers all over her body.

She missed this, having a mouth search for hers, feeling so intimate with another. It tingled that special spot in between her legs. With shame, she admitted she was attracted to this 23-year-old, full of himself, guy. Or perhaps there was something else she had been missing. Her poor vibrator had been used until ruin.

She put her arms around him and instinctively pressed her body on his. This was all he had been waiting for. His eager hands went to search for absolutely nothing all over her back. She allowed him to lead her up the stairs, to the bed, and to unzip her dress. Then to push her on the mattress and settle himself over her, his very enlarged self pressing on her hip through his trousers.

In between kisses she had lost count of how long it had been or when she, or was it he who undressed her fully. She became aware of herself only when he took off his shorts. Him, tearing with his teeth the packaging and sliding the condom on his nakedness, brought her to the present.

“Wait, this is all sorts of wrong,” she said, keeping Lucas at an arm’s distance.

He sighed and sat next to her, clearly disappointed. His eyes still lingered over her naked form. Sara felt ashamed and covered herself with her hands. Noticing this, he brought her the sheet.

“If you want, I can call you an Uber or something,” Lucas said, running his hand through that perfectly ruffled hair, his thing still as stiff as a pole.

“Why did you bring me here?” Sara asked the obvious question. What she did not expect was the answer.

“It felt right. At that moment, something felt right.”

His answer seemed sincere and resonated with a hidden chord within her. She turned his face her way and brought it closer. For the first time tonight, she kissed his lips. Putting aside the sheet, she laid on her back, spread her legs and received him. With youthful eagerness, he began grinding himself against her body.

This... This was what she missed. To have her hunger quenched by another’s hunger for her. To have something fill her up to feel whole again. To have a man’s body weight pin her down and bring some rest to her restlessness. She needed this. She enjoyed it until exhaustion and she was vocal enough to let him know.

The sweet fatigue, settling in after she released her passion, together with the tender manner in which he was holding her, allowed Sara to close her eyes for a second. When she opened them again the city skyline was bathed in the morning light. Lucas was softly purring near her ear. She tried to slip out of bed unnoticed but found his arm still wrapped around her waist.

He stirred awake and pulled her closer, nuzzling and kissing her neck. That was her special spot. She had no objection when he took her again that morning.

“What do you want for breakfast,” Lucas asked while she was still in the shower.

“I don’t eat breakfast.”

“Then let me buy you some coffee at least. This hotel brew is rubbish,” he requested, leaning on the bathroom door.

Sara offered him a bright smile, barely visible through the steamed shower glass. “I know a great coffee shop a couple of blocks away.” She did not feel out of place like she thought she would. In fact, she felt strangely satisfied.

Saturday morning was a busy time to be out for coffee. Sara was sitting outside, at the table they spied and hunted together, and watched Lucas through the coffee shop window. He was waiting his turn in the queue, fretting with impatience and making funny faces at her. How he could be immature in a funny way and alluring at the same time was a puzzle to her.

“I had to fight tooth and nail for these,” he placed the two small cups of italianos on the table. While he sat in his chair, with his locks shining under the morning sun, in his Burberry coat with raised collar and buckles, sipping leisurely from his coffee, he was the image of a wild boy, ripped out from a magazine cover.

“So, when are you gonna give me your phone number, or your Twitter handle, or something?” Lucas asked, blowing to warm up his hands.

Sara searched for a pen in her purse and took a napkin.

“I see. No phone bump. You are an old fashion girl,” he half-smirked.

Putting down her empty cup, Sara lifted from her seat and handed him the note. “I am sure if you need my phone number, you have your ways to get it.” She smiled and left him there with a simple goodbye.

Next Monday, before the end of a new day’s work, Lucas was waiting for her, patiently sitting on the armchair in the office reception.

At least once, do tell a Lie

And see it twist the world around you.

Note how deceit is short-lived

So you’ll learn the Truth has value.

Then ignore all you need to do

And do all else that does not matter

Squander away those precious hours.

So you'll learn your Time has value.

Did someone make you punch a wall?

Punch their faces, spat your anger!

Allow bitter regret to leave you hollow,

So you'll learn Kindness has value.

There are terrors all around you.

Quiver in fear in your burrow,

Let the others save the day

So you’ll learn Valor has value.

While most lessons are forgotten,

The sins you pay for with tears and sorrow,

They will leave you marked forever.

They’re the lessons for tomorrow.

Because

Not until you've walked a mile

In a sinner’s shoes of lead,

Will you believe the truth and power

Of a saint’s holy creed.

I believe there are no sinners;

Only people who need to learn.

Carpeting the ground

You’ll see them fall,

Specs of yellow, amber and even some green.

Before you step,

Have you stopped to consider

They were once rustling in the trees?

Before you step,

Have you stopped to remember

The shadow they gifted in the summer haze?

Before you step,

Have you stopped to breathe,

The air they filtered for you to live?

Just like you,

They come in all shapes and sizes.

You’ve seen them being born, then turn into a guise of green.

Just like you,

They were once part of the whole.

Now, they float powerless when the wind blows.

Tread carefully,

As you might crush a page of your life story

Encased in a leaf’s memory.

Up in the trees, I am sure it seemed

They would live forever, but let Autumn come,

Because sometimes not even the afterlife lasts.

Tread carefully because you will turn them to dust.

I was the weird one of the bunch.

The one they’d tease, the one they’d scare,

The one who would close her eyes

To see how nature unravels.

They never tried to understand

Why butterflies sat on my hand,

Why flowers bloomed as I gently blew,

And why for me time moved so slow.

I never thought I looked like much,

With curly hair, freckled pinched nose,

But what always stood out

Was the distinct air that I wore.

My Mum would kiss away my tears,

Patting the unruly clump of hair.

A velvety voice would ease my fears

And whisper sweet nothings in the air.

“I’ve never seen a witch as bewitching

As the lovely witch which you are.”

It was a lie, it was a scented dream,

It was all that lay in between,

From the first moment they left me bruised,

Until I rose above the abuse.

Words are magical spells when infused

With love, with care, with understanding,

That soothes the soul and mends the wounds,

Leaving a crippled hero standing.

Now, I’m the witch who shares the magic...

Have you heard of the legend of the poor troubadour

Who enchanted your hearing while making fun of you?

His talent for music was well renowned,

But what a pity his jokes were so bland.

One night in October, when he got drunk,

Walking around town like an unskilled acrobat,

He made a mistake that he could never payback.

He made a joke about a witch's pointy hat.

In his liquor sweetened infused delight,

And without caring who else was in sight,

He told her it looked like the stem of a pumpkin

While her face was just as yellow and just as bright.

It didn’t take long for the scorn to be born

As the witch’s eyes squinted and she offered a frown.

With exercised gestures, the wand twirled in the air,

While the words that she uttered were the last ones he’d hear.

“His eyes shall be graved as he can not see much.

His head shall be hallow as he’s not very smart.

His mouth shall be stretched in a weird-looking grin,

While his teeth shall be as absent as the politeness he’s got within.”

Sparks flew high and circled the man overrun by despair.

In the blink of an eye, his majestic figure spun in the air

He shrunk to the size of a full, fleshy pumpkin

While his last expression was carved on its skin.

And this is how from an ill-fated joke,

Devised as lightly as the last words he spoke,

Spurred this tradition to keep witches at bay

By carving a companion for Old Hallow’s Day.

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Black wings angled sharp,

With feathers sparkling in the dark.

If I could see Its face

I'd guess there's beauty hiding beneath the mess.

But all I do is feel the pinch

Of a cold breeze, that foul stench

Of all the moments I have lived

And the regrets that came with it,

Of all desires, I have smothered

And all the dreams I never shared.

Because you see, Sweet Tormentor of my despair,

When I had the time, I did not care.

With parched lips, I look for water,

What I wouldn't give to taste once more

That insipid liquid, devoid of color

That is said to infuse life again.

Once I had dreams and aspirations,

Now all I dream is to take a sip.

“Cruel Angel, offering a placid stare,

Do say I have more time to spare.”

“Reap what you sow,” I hear him speak

While he sharpens his sickle to send me into the abyss.

I guess it is time for the harvest,

As I await Death's final kiss.

I have a garden, a place I belong,

Where the sun rises and never goes home.

Where there’s no cloud hiding the sky

And where My Love turned into a storm his goodbye.

The promise he whispered was caught by the wind

And carried in the distance, across the battlefield.

Despite all of my flowers or how hard I prayed

I couldn’t keep My Love from going away.

If I am never My Love to see,

At least let his promise come back to me...

By now twas the season of the auburn leaves,

When the warm rays of the sun patted my knees

As I sat waiting in my garden to see

If My Love made his way back to me.

Twas then when the Zephyr carrier the word

That My Love’s cold body was deep in the mud.

My tears fell like the leaves from the trees

And I knew by Winter my heart would freeze.

I remember the Spring when we said our goodbyes

For the first time, this Autumn, I learned everything dies...

When his last letter fell in my lap

My eyes saw again the promise we swapped.

“No matter what, my darling, believe

Love stays with us; love never leaves.”

Only now could I read between the lines.

The promise he made was that Love never dies…

Author’s Note: This was inspired by the stories my grandfather used to tell about the time he was fighting in WW2. He had promised a girl from his village to marry her when he came home. Unlike many others, he did come back home, married his girl and eventually got to meet his children and grandchildren. The rhythm and feel of the poem were inspired by all the 70’ war & peace folk songs I used to listen to. This poem also has a melody in my head :) If only I knew how to play.

Black wings angled sharp,

With feathers sparkling in the dark.

If I could see Its face

I'd guess there's beauty hiding beneath the mess.

But all I do is feel the pinch

Of a cold breeze, that foul stench

Of all the moments I have lived

And the regrets that came with it,

Of all desires, I have smothered

And all the dreams I never shared.

Because, can’t you see, Sweet Tormentor of my despair?

When I had the time, I did not care.

With parched lips, I look for water,

What I wouldn't give to taste once more

That insipid liquid, devoid of color

That is said to infuse life again.

Once I had dreams and aspirations,

Now all I dream is to take a sip.

“Cruel Angel, offering a placid stare,

Do say I have more time to spare.”

“Reap what you sow,” I hear him speak

While he sharpens his sickle to send me into the abyss.

I guess it is time for the harvest,

As I await Death's final kiss.