Short writing

Today at boingboing.net there's a contest for 100 word "found in space" themed stories. Grand prize is a 700 dollar computer.

here's my entry. or entreaty, as it were.

Albuquerque
City Limits
Elev 5000

The green and white metal sign floated through the void, rotating at intervals. It was scratched and pitted but the writing remained legible. A metal stake was still screwed into the opposite side.
The ship approached and idled long enough to catalogue the sign. The researches took a photon-impression and recreated it in a digital fashion within the ship’s biological computer bank. They thought to one another on the purpose of the object. A small psychic debate began.
The ship slid away into the blackness, and the sign continued to slowly spin through empty space.