Timed Free Write: Galaxy

5 minute flash fiction free writing based on a random prompt written on a piece of paper that I pulled out of a jar. The word was "Galaxy." You can see the a video of process, and hear me read the story below on TikTok.

There was only one place he wished to return to in the entire galaxy.

It wasn't home - or at least, it wasn't the place he was born and raised. He'd never call that death trap "home".

The only place he wished to return to was a long string of small, water covered planets out on the Merithian edge. They were protected by a constant stream of asteroids, held in their flow by the combined gravity of all five planets.

It was there he had met Jin-T'sarin. One of the wisest beings he'd ever encountered. He'd spent nearly six months in Jin-T'sarin's care, after his ship had been nearly destroyed by the asteroid stream and had crash-landed in the swampy shores a few miles away from the elder's camp.

Those six months had changed the very fabric of his identity. He had emerged braver, stronger, and more at peace than ever before.

And that's where he wanted to go.

Not to Hibrain.

Not again.