Fiction

The year is 2304. A small crew leaves Earth on humanity’s boldest mission yet: thirty days into deep space, further than anyone has ever gone.

Three days in, they detect something no instrument was built to explain: a shimmering distortion in empty space, barely a kilometre and a half across. They send a probe inside, with orders to record for three minutes and come straight back.

It returns nine days later.

What it brings back will change everything humanity believes about space, time, and whether ours is the only universe.