Part Two, First Landing

The star was caught, together, the way everything on this voyage gets done. Then the little rocket did what rockets dream about. It landed.

The Space Cats have landed. Cinnamon and Jasper, two rescue cats from Sacramento, have touched down on the Moon, paw prints trailing through the dust behind them, and stopped the way all explorers stop, to look back at home.

Jasper, the gray tabby, sits tall the way he does on Earth, watchful, standing guard at his sister's side. Cinnamon, the ginger, leans in against him the way she leans into everything she loves, both of them gazing up at the blue Earth hanging over the craters.

No queens, no black holes this time either. Just the two who run the studio, out on the shore of the Sea of Tranquility, discovering the Moon is mostly a very big, very quiet backyard.

“The Moon is mostly a very big, very quiet backyard.”

Original artwork and story by Merci Web Design Studio. Print, 6500 x 4500 and up, at Fine Art America.