DESPITE HIS SUDDENLY POUNDING HEARTBEAT, the president’s face remained calm. “Say that again,” he said in his best imitation of a steady voice.
His chief of staff looked as though she would faint. “We have discovered ruins on Venus,” she repeated. “And not primitive ones, either. Actual cities. Roads. Industry. An entire civilization, not all that different from ours, once existed there. And more than existed – it thrived.”
“For a while, anyway,” the science advisor spoke up. “Tell him about the launch sites.”
“‘Launch sites?’” echoed the president. Continue reading “Inevitable (Itieration #3 in the Heavy-Handed Environmentalism Series)”