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Ted Kosmatka: In-fall
The disc caved a hole in the starshine.
Smooth, graphene skin reflected nothing, blotting out the stars as it swung through the vacuum—black on black, the perfect absence of color.
It was both a ship and not a ship.
The disc lacked a propulsion system. It lacked navigation. Inside, two men awakened, first one and then the other.
In truth, the disc was a projectile—a dark bolus of life-support fired into distant orbit around another, stranger kind of darkness.
-- Snip --
Smooth, graphene skin reflected nothing, blotting out the stars as it swung through the vacuum—black on black, the perfect absence of color.
It was both a ship and not a ship.
The disc lacked a propulsion system. It lacked navigation. Inside, two men awakened, first one and then the other.
In truth, the disc was a projectile—a dark bolus of life-support fired into distant orbit around another, stranger kind of darkness.
-- Snip --
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-fall/