title: The Destiny of a Galaxy
author:  Sarah Holman 
description: Sarah Holman, a homeschool graduate, lives in central Texas. When not pursuing her passion of writing, she can be found taking long walks, reading, sewing or spending time with her family. You can find out more about her at her blog www.destinyofone.blogspot.com
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  **TRANSCENDENT**
  
   **DESTINY'S CHILDREN 03**
  
  Stephen Baxter
  
   **ONE**
  
  The girl from the future told me that the sky is full of dying worlds.
  
  You can spot them from far off, if you know what you’re looking for. When a
  star gets old it heats up, and its planets’ oceans evaporate, and you can see
  the clouds of hydrogen and oxygen, slowly dispersing. Dying worlds cloaked in
  the remains of their oceans, hanging in the Galaxy’s spiral arms like rotten
  fruit: this is what people will find, when they move out from the Earth, in
  the future. Ruins, museums, mausoleums.
  
  How strange. How wistful.
  
  My name is Michael Poole.
  
  I have come home to Florida. Although not to my mother’s house, which is in
  increasing peril of slipping into the sea.
  
  I live in a small apartment in Miami. I like having people around, the sound
  of voices. Sometimes I miss the roar of traffic, the sharp scrapings of planes
  across the sky, the sounds of my past. But the laughter of children mak