A DAY IN THE LIFE OF...
An Anthology Series from The Mars Abyss
Submitted for your consideration: a colony not of mere survivors, but of builders. A world where the air is thin, the sky is rust, and every breath is a triumph of will. Yet, within her domes, a different atmosphere thrives—one of memory, curiosity, and the stubbornly human need to connect. These are the stories from the edge of human experience. These are the quiet moments, the lost afternoons, and the personal victories that unfold... in The Mars Abyss.
Our first entry: a simple walk. A leader seeking solitude. A companion's concern. A malfunctioning navigator (True Story). And the chain of cosmic odditties that ensues when one man from the Bronx refuses to be told a neighborhood is "bad."
Episode 1: The Regent's Lost Afternoon
SYNOPSIS: It was supposed to be a fifteen-minute walk. A moment of quiet for the man who carries the weight of a planet. But when the Regent's holographic guide glitched—a familiar echo of a lost afternoon in North Carolina (True Story)—he stumbled into the yard of the Warlock of Tharsis, who was attempting to fold spacetime to better water his pain-resistant cacti.
What followed was an unplanned journey through a sub-dimensional shortcut, a conversation with a sentient dust storm that remembered the taste of Earth's oceans, and a frantic race against a closing temporal aperture.
He returned home late, disheveled, smelling of ozone and forgotten timelines. Silver Saint Claire, who had been calculating the optimal popcorn kernel expansion rate for their upcoming drive-in movie night, took one look at him.
Silver: "Mojón, you are late. The previews start in twenty minutes."
The Regent: "Silver, you have no idea what just—"
Silver: "Sonic bath. Now. And for the love of the Founding Domes, do not sing in there. Ms. NoNo has already filed a noise complaint."
Sometimes, the most extraordinary adventures are the ones you can't even explain to the person waiting for you at home.