Dial—Six Sentence Story

Brian was a mathematician. He loved to pontificate on all kinds of nonsense like how many infinities can dance on the head of a pin. When George, an astronomer, asked him for advice Brian was confident he could dial up more elegant advice than George’s empirical predisposition could handle.

What George wanted to know, however, was why were the research schedules of the space and terrestrial telescopes suddenly put on hold to gather data on specific dense regions within three parsecs of Sagittarius A*? Before Brian’s speculations found words, reports came in of the appearance of unrecognized stars whose light had just passed through the gravitational potential near the Milky Way’s center of mass.

Brian thought to himself that this ominously felt like the beginning of the end, and he was right, but his worldview blinded him from seeing just what was ending.

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Denise offers the prompt word “dial” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Story.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

20 thoughts on “Dial—Six Sentence Story”

  5. More things in your philosophies, Horatio?

    Not-for-nothin’ but your image (in the context of your Six? totally knocks me out! (Can’t say why, but it does)

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  7. Frank, your Six warrants a “thought provoking” as it implies much. For those without a certain flexibility, “what has always been” doesn’t necessarily mean “it will always be”.

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