Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-27403562-20151230102912

It had been ages since the astronaut had last seen earth.He was going to be the first man to achieve interstellar travel.The ships computer would do most of the work,he was just there to maintain the various components of the ship.

When he awoke from cryosleep though he found that his ship was trapped in orbit around a what seemed to be similar to a black hole but with several Notable diffrences.The first being that it thankfully didn't suck didn't suck him damning him to a fate no man had suffered before well on the other hand the anomaly didn't push him away like a white hole would,in theory.Instead it held him and his ship in place.He remained in a steady orbit around the mysterious anomaly.Upon checking the ships data recordings he found that the ship had been in this state for several years.

He did everything he could to get the ship free from orbit.After spending several days trying everything he could think of multiple times he resigned to his fate.

He quickly found that the ships nutrition processor which provided him with sustenance had shut down.After futile hours spent attempting repair he called it a quit.

He should have starved to death shortly there after,yet when the ships medical sensors told him he would die of malnourishment within a few hours he detected something that he couldn't belive.Floating just outside of the main airlock were 12 Containers with an organic substance within them.He took them inside for examination and was even more shocked to discover what they contained within.

They were fruit jars.Each jar had 24 samples of various fruits within them.The astronaut was awestruck by what he was seeing.He spent the next hour going over and over how these jars could have been in the void of space and was only broken out his trance when the ship's computer informed him that his body was about to start collapsing do to malnourishment.He took a second to brace himself then he did what he knew was his last option.He ate the fruits.

They were delicious at first.They were sweeter then any fruit he had ever tasted.His tongue twitched with each bite.After eating a couple of the mysterious fruits the ships medical system ran a diagnostic of him.His hunger and thirst needs were satiated.He would continue to feed on the fruits, not sure whether he should view them as some sort of divine gift or a desperate hallucination of his dying mind.The was until one day the fruits began to take on an increasingly bitter taste.The astronaut tried to write it off as some of the fruits simply rotting before the others at first but it became clear that every part of every fruit was going bad.He took an apple and shredded it into a million slices yet every part tasted foul.

Still they were his only sustenance so he hardened it up and kept eating them.Soon he began to recognize what they tasted like,decomposing meat.

About a month later his air supply was beginning to run out.Well he was in cryosleep a puncture that has gone undetected by the ship had formed.By the time he had awoken most of his air was gone.He already had difficulty breathing when it happened.The ships sensors detected air outside around the ship.He lay on the floor asphyxiating well wondering if he had gone insane when he went to the airlock.If what the ships sensors said was true he would be saved and if on the other hand they were false then he would be meeting death either way.He was equally shocked and relieved when upon opening the ships airlock he was knocked on his back by a gust of fresh air.

In the back of his head he feared that the winds would contain some dangerous bacteria that would eat through his lungs.The sensors showed all clear At first the air was so fresh you'd expect it from 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.It dawned on him these types of dreams were the only one had since he awoke from cryosleep.That's when the ships sensors went into overdrive.

Something was emerging from the void.Something massive and spherical.It came out of the anomaly but was somehow bigger than it.He spent the next couple of days scanning what he realized was an earth-like planet yet was still,after everything he had seen and experienced,shocked.

It had Animals and plant life on it in Addition to man-made structures.He couldn't believe it at first but he began to realize that it was his homeland.The surface of the planet had his hometown from back on earth and the surrounding country side.

He exited his ship,abandoning it's sterile walls and buzzing computers that he had grown sick off and floated in space looking upon the familiar terrain.He could see his old fishing spot.He could see his daughter's school.He could even see the old farm he lived on.And in it's fields he could see them.His wife and daughter were standing,waving to him.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 and stepped back.

For he tasted the faint taste of decaying meat. 