The Loveliest Abyss in the Universe

By: Andrew M. Crusoe

Narrated by: Andrew M. Crusoe

The Portal is unnatural, a fissure in spacetime torn between sharp rings. The Portal shows you images that haunt your waking moments as well as your dreams. The Portal wants you to gaze within, but when you do, you will never be the same.

When the Order of Nirangi opens a portal into a hellish realm, they tempt far more than fate. Hidden deep underground, a ringed machine tears into the fabric of spacetime itself, showing the Nirangi scientists a glimpse into a realm covered in roiling lava lakes and volcanoes, leaving them petrified and humbled. Only Madam Viragat, the project overseer, is unconcerned, clearly bent on using their recording of the glimpse to scare the populous into submission. Despite incomplete data, she insists that the hellish realm they saw was the Abyss, the fate of the unsanctified after death.

Only Sujan, a brilliant young scientist, is willing to investigate further. To his shock, he makes a discovery that rocks his world to its core....

©2015 Andrew M. Crusoe (P)2020 Andrew M. Crusoe

A lovely short story.

This is a great stand alone novella or it can be read as an addition to the author's other SciFi works. It can be taken as a delve into religion, politics, or as an intense story of bravery. I love the creativity and emotion that shine through.