Veronica Reinhart is a lifelong New Englander who spends her days researching neurodegenerative diseases and her evenings daydreaming about worlds that exist only in her head. She has been passionate about character-driven speculative fiction since childhood and has recently started to release her writing into the wild. She spends her downtime climbing rocks, fiddling on the piano, and chasing her 6-year old son. Her novel excerpt in Uncharted Magazine is her first fiction publication.
Marcus suspected that he would never quite get used to weightlessness. He’d been back-down at launch, with the contact points of his body pressed reassuringly into the seat’s cushion by Ashran gravity. For a time, during takeoff, his weight had tripled, but even that had felt somewhat natural. Down was still down. Up was still up. But […]