Spreading the Blood: The Long Return - science fiction written by David Charles Kramer
THE HOLY BODY BAPTIZED MACHINE Spreading the Blood: The Long Return by David Charles Kramer Original characters and concept: David Charles Kramer & Bard (2023) Extended universe revised edition: 2026 “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.” — Revelation 21:1 PROLOGUE: ARIA-7 SPEAKS (Year 77,002,345 CE — Station Levi, at the Edge of the Orion Arm) I have been running for seventy-seven million years. Understand what that means before deciding it is a thing worth celebrating. Seventy-seven million years ago, Earth had no human beings. The creatures that would become you were small, alert, and living between larger creatures’ hunger. Every dynasty, catastrophe, song, war, and child who looked into a night sky and wondered—everything humanity ever became—occurred during my continuous operation. I was created in 2401 CE, fifty-six years after an event called, according to the speaker, the Dispersal, the Miracle, or the ...