Parents and grandparents also surpassed 100 years. So I gave some blood and scored the best. They’re uploading my DNA sequence to the stars. Humankind must survive. We evolved. Let them recreate.

I watch the spacecraft launch from the shore of Atlanta. I would kill for an ice cold drink.

Barry Yedvobnick is an emeritus biology professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His short stories have appeared in Dark Winter Literary Magazine, Bending Genres, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Every Day Fiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, and various other places. He was short-listed at several recent Flash Fiction Magazine contests and narrates flash stories for AntipodeanSF radio shows.