“The odds? Almost zero,” Captain Lu thought, an instant before he died.

The spaceship Quantum was in its tenth year of a twenty-year voyage searching for extraterrestrial life. Until then, there had been no problems on the journey.

Having a head-on collision with an Earth-bound alien spacecraft had seemed… unlikely.

Denny E, Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published, including fiction at 101 Words. See more at dennymarshall.com.