Running Bear

RUNNING BEAR is a story about a brave group of scientists and astronauts who are planning the greatest endeavor in human history: an intergenerational starship to colonize another solar system. The only thing that could stop them is World War III--but those clouds on the horizon are starting to look like bad news.

Here are a few choice lines:

"A half dozen of those points of light were not stars at all. They described high arcs across the sky, tracing parabolas that carried them from the other side of the world to this side, to end it. Their movements were all but invisible against the backdrop of galaxies..."

This story is the opening chapter in the novel project I've been working on since 2014, and it sets out the premise that underpins the whole book. As a stand-alone short story, Running Bear was selected as the first prize winner in F(r)iction's Short Story Contest this year, and published in issue #14. It's a gorgeous magazine, available across North America at Barnes & Noble and Amazon, and at the Tattered Cover here in Denver.