GALACTIC HIGHWAY: The Bench

“It is unknown to us if the Galactic Highway is a natural phenomenon. Its structure, and the substance it is formed of, is observed nowhere else in the known universe; its existence seems almost too convenient for us beings incapable of travelling the vacuum of space. An unmappable network of floating, immovable, and peculiarly pink roads, perfectly suited to be traversed by foot, or by any vehicle with traction, with extreme speed. If only we had discovered it before our planets had died. How marvellous they must have been, the true titans of our universe. But most of them are gone. Now, it is our fate to wander, and hope we can build something new, out among the graves.”

A short story about intergalactic drifter Sunshine and her travels as she looks for Home, and sorts out her stuff along the way. Potentially the first in a series.

The Bench

Sunshine, in her search for Home, hears tell of a legendary epiphany-inducing bench, and takes a detour onto perilous roads to find it.

Artwork by @HollyOakHill