Running
by
Benjamin Crowell
Originally Published in Strange Horizons,
2008
Genre:
Science Fiction
Length: 20 pages.
By the time Joe's done carefully stretching his calves, his son Andy is already jogging in
place: Let's go! As long as Joe doesn't look up at the ceiling, he can imagine that they're running in a park down on Earth, and he's showing Andy what blue sky and clouds are like. He can imagine that everything's okay, that everything he's telling Andy is the truth.