Blue Earth Rising

(edited ver. 1, 18May2025)

The space heater clicked and sputtered in the center of the cramped dome, its heating coil glowing orange against the thick lunar night outside. The rattling unit was a secondhand model, salvaged from the colony’s surplus depot where the wealthy residents’ discards became working-class treasures. Avante clutched his threadbare thermal jacket tighter around his shoulders. Despite years of living on Luna, the bone-deep chill of the lunar night never quite left his body, even indoors.