Stream of Consciousness & Music Reviews

  Cardium was dying. His body had long since started showing the effects of the negligence being forced on it. He had given up trying to get water from the slight dew that built up on the stone cliff; he resigned it to be as useless for survival as anything else there, wherever ‘there’ was. Nothing he could even consider eating resembled food in the slightest, save for the earthy smell of the cedar trees and their branches reminding him of root spices. He might have liked a walking stick, but none of the limbs on the ever present cedars were low enough to snap off and he could never find any laying on the ground. He didn’t even try to use the dark red grass for anything. So on he went, although he was also letting go of walking as well. His body was always protesting any form of movement, even when still. He knew that his body was running on fumes. It had been simply too long since he had eaten or drank anything, and it was very painfully apparent to him.  His pattern of...

          I don’t expect this to be found by any Humans, so I’ll give some context. Humans come from a planet called The Earth. The Earth orbits a yellow star in the natively named Milky Way Galaxy. Humans first left The Earth about 1,900 years after we started keeping measured track of time (in the “20th century”), although we only went to our moon at the time. A little under 200 years later we managed to go to the next furthest planet from our star in their solar system (Mars). Half a century later Humans cracked light speed travel and began to explore beyond The Earth’s solar system. Humans always recalled wanting to explore “the stars”, so leaving our native solar system, and quickly after the galaxy, was natural after engineering the means to do so. I won’t explain any of our “first contacts” with other lifes or history in the wider universe since you almost assuredly already know.  After becoming an established entry in the wider universe, sett...