Song for a Distant Star

A lonely radio astronomer catches a signal that shouldn't exist — and decides to answer it.

• Hopeful first-contact science fiction told through music
• A linguist's fragile dialogue with an alien intelligence
• Warm space-set story about answering a stranger with an open heart

“The far side of the Moon kept no time worth mentioning. Out there, past the tidal lock that hid this hemisphere from Earth forever, the sun rose and set on its own fourteen-day rhythm, indifferent to clocks. Dr. Mara Voss had stopped fighting it in her second month at Halcyon Array and now lived by the numbers on her console instead: signal strength, drift rate, the soft green pulse of the waterfall display that scrolled down her screen like rain falling upward.”

Format: Instant PDF download after purchase.

Length: A full short story — about 25–35 minutes to read.

Works on: Any device with a PDF reader — phone, tablet, e-reader, or computer.