Life, unbounded

A piece that is neither essay nor fiction nor memoir but all of them and none of them (390 words).

We ate emptily to fill the void the stars left, rode and re-rode the Journey Through Inner Space ride at Disneyland, sailed eons and parsecs with Neil deGrasse Tyson, sat shotgun with Captain Picard Take Me With You. We dreamed of being whisked away—exploring moons, planets, nebulae—abducted by aliens and taken somewhere derision didn’t sing down on us for the egregious sin of walking while fa...