“The first confirmed sighting from the new observatory in Hawaii.”
He read the words aloud, frowning as he held the crumpled newspaper up before him, momentarily glancing down at the black and white photograph that accompanied the text, peering at the distant shape, an ashen smudge in a field of black.
“Is that so?” he murmured to himself, scanning the text again to find where he had left off.
On the bridge of his nose, his glasses slid down, and with annoyance, he raised his hand, pushing them back up. On the table before him, a cigarette smoldered in the ashtray, a glass circle residing next to his half-drunk cup of coffee, as, behind him, he could hear his wife busying herself in the kitchen with something or other.
“The sighting was first determined thanks to the unique disturbance
