Five-minute fiction - 00:15-00:20
glittered in the vast distance. Thrope closed his eyes, and counted down as the seconds ticked by. A buzzer cut through the silence but he was already running his boots clicking on the metal grating, and then he was falling the expanse of the sky opening up before him as he plunged toward the earth. He opened his eyes, and steadied his breathing. The lights on his H.U.D. Indicated all systems were nominal and he let the process run its course.
The H.U.D. transformed the signals and lights falling away to be replaced by a three-dimensional grid and tiny pin-pricks of light trailed by sequential numbers. He watched the lights, as one by they emerged from the rear of the shuttle and began their descent toward the planet.
Just within his view the timer passed negative thirty-seconds and he saw a larger blip appear. A string of smaller blips followed behind it in short succession
glittered in the vast distance. Thrope closed his eyes, and counted down as the seconds ticked by. A buzzer cut through the silence but he was already running his boots clicking on the metal grating, and then he was falling the expanse of the sky opening up before him as he plunged toward the earth. He opened his eyes, and steadied his breathing. The lights on his H.U.D. Indicated all systems were nominal and he let the process run its course.
The H.U.D. transformed the signals and lights falling away to be replaced by a three-dimensional grid and tiny pin-pricks of light trailed by sequential numbers. He watched the lights, as one by they emerged from the rear of the shuttle and began their descent toward the planet.
Just within his view the timer passed negative thirty-seconds and he saw a larger blip appear. A string of smaller blips followed behind it in short succession