Science Fiction

Mars

A short story

Photo by Nicolas Lobos on Unsplash

I looked out the window at the familiar rust-red of the land, the valleys and rocks — those places that weren’t taken over by the green patches of grass and trees and plants. I shook my head. “The moon?” I said in awe. “I can’t imagine us landing on the moon. That’s just crazy. It would be all grey. Grey and bland.”