Baubles From Bones: Issue 2
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The Haunted Spaceship

Jon Hansen

We found it

Way out past Neptune

A giant metal thing

Scarred by who-knows-what

A single giant door

Hung open and inside

I thought I saw

Something

Shift

It reminded me

Of the Simmons' place

Off Vanderbilt Road

Its cracked windows

Covering a dark stillness

I wasn't alone

In thinking this

The three of us argued about it

Claiming to be scientific

And rational

But really we were just

Playing chicken

In the end we settled on

Sending a robot probe

Just like we sent Jake Brodek's

little brother Tommy

To go on the porch

Push open the door

And go inside

Just a couple steps

We told him

We waited and waited

But the probe never came back

Just like Tommy

Baubles From Bones: Issue 2
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Jon Hansen

JON HANSEN (he/his) is a writer, librarian, and occasional blood donor. He lives about fifty feet from Boston with his wife, son, and three pushy cats. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of places, including Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction and Apex Magazine. He can be found online at logicalcreativity.com/jon.