The Hollow Caravan

An unreleased short story from the book: 3I/ATLAS: The Comet That Shouldn’t Exist The desert was already restless before the comet came. We had been hearing about it for months—3I/ATLAS, C/2025 N1, an interstellar wanderer they said had been drifting between suns for longer than Earth had existed. Astronomers spoke of it in precise terms: its…