She walked into the lab, kissed my neck.

"You know, you never actually ‘touch’ anything," I told her. "Electrons on the surface of our atoms consistently and completely repel each other."

"No matter how close we get," she said, "we will always be apart…"

I sighed. “Romantic, huh?”

"I don’t mind." She stared at me, moved her hand on top of mine.

"The fundamental forces of the universe can’t stop me from trying."

                                                                                        - Trying,

 from: Scientific American blogger, and science communicator Kyle Hill.  

Sci-Fi in Six

A Tumblr full of science fiction short stories, told in six paragraphs or less.