WP - You Are On The Space Station and Earth Implodes

The minute he opened his eyes he felt it. It was n't the physical blast which had occurred some hours before in the midst of his sleep, but a sudden emptiness echoing down the white-washed halls of the station, saturating the artificial air and suffocating him of any hope for escape from this mechanized hell. He moved slowly down the hall to the wide windows where he so often gazed upon his home, letting the absence of gravity bounce his body along like a doll. The cloud of dust before him drew no sharp intake of breath or scream, but a far more pained silence. He lay his cold palms against the glass and let the word slip through his teeth as if it was the only reasonable thing to say: 
 `` Hello?'' 
 The consequent silence buzzed in his ears as if after a long phone call the other end suddenly hung up; the conversation was over. 
 `` Hello!?'' 
 This time his voice began to panic, as the inconceivable reality of what had just happened began to crash over him like the waves of the ocean he played in as a boy, waves that were gone now, floating as particles with the rest of his world- 
 `` Hello!?'' 
 Adrenaline coursed through his veins and in desperation his hands curled into fists, firing blow after blow onto the impregnable glass wall, separating him from life as he knew it, a life of money, cars, books, friends, trees, hugs, kisses tears; a life now only survived by death. 
 `` HELLO!!!'' 
 Consciousness became irrelevant for the next few hours, it was all the same to him. Flitting in and out of the screams of his family and the horrible residual dust cloud, he let the cold plastic floor hold his throbbing head and waited for some elusive solution. 
 It was n't his decision to stand up hours later, some biological impulse forced his muscles into a pitiful motion, dragging him without any apparent direction until he found himself staring into the empty eyes of the one other human on board, a length of wiring still taught around his purple neck. 
 For some unknown reason this discovery brought a strange rush of clarity to him, there was nothing here. The idea of nothing seemed to have adopted a new meaning in the preceding hours, before nothing was outside. Out there in the black. Before, everything worth living for lay before him, bounded either by steel or a blue sky; but now he saw for the first time what man had neglected as long as he existed upon the earth. He saw the endless expanse of empty black space around him transform into a welcoming light bespeckled with the faces of stars, each bearing its own stories of life and death. He watched as the value of his life became no longer a question of utility, but simply a matter of existence. He boarded a shuttle and gazed into the desert before him, living out his death among the stars. His final log sat entered, blinking on the monitor on the station: 
 `` Goodbye.''
