miris
.bar
In the lower decks of Station Meridian-7, where the gravity plating hums at 0.87g and the viewport shows nothing but the slow wheel of distant galaxies, there is a door.
It has no sign — only a thin line of burnished brass set into the frame, catching the corridor's emergency lighting like a thread of captured starlight.
Behind it, Miri pours constellations into glasses. Each drink is a map — of memory, of longing, of the particular ache that comes from watching Earth shrink to a blue pixel in the rear viewport.
The bar smells of cardamom and ozone, of oak barrels that traveled forty million kilometers to reach this corner of nothing, of the faint metallic sweetness that clings to everything in recycled air.
You've been looking for this place. You just didn't know it had a name.
Every drink is a door.
Every glass holds a galaxy you haven't visited yet.
The bar never closes — time moves differently here,
measured in pours and conversations and the slow
rotation of unnamed stars outside the viewport.
Enter.