Homecoming
Seth Daniels
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2011 Seth Daniels
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Gerry sat at the console in his spaceship, the radio dead for weeks only hissing now and then but still he sat waiting to hear a voice. The voice never came. He longed to hear the sweet sound of his wife or even the gruff sound of the mission director. Anything to give him a reminder of what is was like to be back home.
Lt Gerald Smith launched from earth six weeks prior to today. His mission so secret he could not tell his wife where he was going. He hugged her tightly one last time before making his way to his ship. He desired just one last smell of her long brown hair before the emptiness of space. The smell in his cockpit would be of metal, wires, and the absence of humanity.
His mission was to ease an asteroid off course so that it would not hit the earth as the government had calculated. To get him there in time they stripped down the spaceship of all non-essentials. All the training and planning he endured seemed an ancient memory to him now.