Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-27403562-20151222041134

It was ages since the astronaut has seen earth.He was to be the first man to travel through to another solar system but when he awoke from cryosleep he found that his ship was trapped in orbit around a what seemed like something similar to a black hole but it didn't suck him in nor did it push him away like a white hole would in theory.Instead it held him in place.He remained in a steady orbit around the anomaly.It had been nearly a year in this state.

He should have starved but when ever you grew hungry enough he would be shocked to find fruits and jars of various milks floating out of the core of the anomaly and into the airlock of his ship.After properly researching them and growing desperate enough he ate them.They were delicious at first.But they would quickly rot and took on a taste like decomposing meat.

He should have asphyxiated as his air supply ran out but for reason that would stay a mystery to him the ships scanners one day detected wind in the void of space.It came from the anomaly.When he was down to his last breath he opened the podbay doors and allowed the gust of winds to flow through the ship.He expected to die.He expected the winds to contain some dangerous bacteria that would eat through his lungs.But the air was so fresh you'd expect it form a mountaintop.Soon though the winds flowing into the vessel started to carry a fowl stench like that of deteriorating meat.

As he reached the 5 month mark of being trapped in orbit of the mysterious anomaly he laid down to sleep.He dreamed of the unlikely possibility of being with his loved ones again.What should of been a sweet dream became a bitter nightmare as he awoke and realized that he would likely die alone.It was almost certain that he wouldn't see his wife and daughter again.That's when the ships sensors went into overdrive.

Something was emerging from the void.Something massive and cylinder shaped.It was what seemed like the surface of a habitable planet but rather than being shaped like a sphere it was in the form of a massive tube that surrounded his ship.He worked around the clock studying the structure. It had Animal and plant life on it in Addition to man-made structure.He couldn't believe it at first but he began to realize that it was his homeland.The surface of the structure had his hometown from back on earth and the surrounding country side.

He floated in space looking upon the familiar terrain.He could see his old fishing spot.He could see his daughter school.He could even see his old farm he lived on.And on it he could see them.His wife and daughter were standing in the field behind the farmhouse.That's when he did it.He floated down to the surface of the structure.The anomaly  didn't hold him in orbit like his ship.The gravity got stronger as he got closer to the ground.He knew once he was on the surface he wouldn't be able to get back up to the ship but he didn't care.

He landed in front of his wife and child and took his helmet off.The three grabbed each other and hugged.There were tears of joy in his eyes as he kissed his wife.Her lips were sweeter then how he remembered them.But suddenly he pulled away from her.He stepped back.

For he tasted the faint taste of decaying meat. 