Science Fiction
Smartystan
Multiple machines showed movements that caused engineers to frown. “We just can’t get them all to work together,” Maser Clover, 45, finally said aloud.
Skyler SaundersPublished 7 days ago in ChaptersSmartystan
Go wore his signature t-shirt. Dr. Strong dressed in a button down shirt. The two women wore floral blouses, Dr. Frampton in blue and Belinda in pink. In this virtual conference, the “Flourishing Four” expressed their grievances, their agonies, their triumphs.
Skyler SaundersPublished 7 days ago in ChaptersSmartystan
When the horn blew, the crowd chanted. “GO, CRAZIES, GO!” No celebrations or “cellys” meant that the players on the ice just kept the game going. Like toys on a giant table, they ambled and chased, shot and dove, and performed to the best of their ability: average. Dr. Strong brought his girlfriend Lerrica. Her alabaster skin and gray eyes and angular face spoke of attractiveness. But what really grabbed the doctor about her was her master’s degree in Nineteenth Century Russian and American Literature. She smiled at him. The game was really a sad affair. Everyone except for a few players showcased average skills. They displayed even more vicious acts.
Skyler SaundersPublished 7 days ago in ChaptersInterlude 03 | Aestas ¤ The Yellow Balloon
“I was shaken from my stupor of staring out at the yellow dot growing minutely larger in the distance,” Ahmad began, “when I heard the person floating to my right ask, ‘I wonder what it would be like to take a walk outside?’ Turning toward him, I peered at the man who had just spoken. Blinking to regain my focus, I blurted out, ‘Excuse me, what?’ not sure I had caught his words correctly.
Smartystan
The Grown Kid magazine featured some of the most lurid, despicable, low-grade, and financially rewarding stories of the day. Dr. Strong and Dr. Frampton both knew the reason for their “exposé” of the goings on at Smartystan. The staff editor, Jogan Felton, looked older than his forty-two years. He wore a tweed jacket and showed off a nasty beard that featured flecks of gray in it.
Skyler SaundersPublished 9 days ago in ChaptersReunion
Everything came rushing into my mind all at once. I saw where Nightmare and the others came from. Excruciating pain traveled from my head to the rest of my body. Falling to the floor I was unable to move an inch. I could barely even breathe.
Lucy TorralbaPublished 9 days ago in ChaptersSmartystan
Hector Vergara enjoyed his French onion soup. As he finished the bowel, a slight slurp came from his lips. He scrolled through the news on his phone. The story about how he could possibly shut down an entire, newly formed country struck him like a piano note. His eyebrows raised and he sighed. I was an exasperation of approval and a commitment to his life’s work. He got up and paid his bill.
Skyler SaundersPublished 10 days ago in ChaptersL'unico chapter III
Jade and Faty descended the train and took a taxi and continued their road outside the town to the hotel. The weather was very pure an clear and the sky was shinny, they arrive to the hotel, they went to the room reservation and got a big room in the scond floor. The hotel was inside a big forest with people guarding there and next to the big river. Jade brought a chair to sit outside from the hotel and went to breath freash air next to the sea. He was for a moment contemplating in the beauty of nature and the sea. And suddenly a bird came from nowhere and started shirping with a beautiful voice, it was very weird , Jade started to look at him concentrating on his beak, for a moment Jade had this idea that the bird was saying something, his beak was like saying; water, water.. in a rapid tone, and then a weird thing happened, the bird got close from the river and drunk some water and then flew away. That was so weird, it was like the little bird was thirsty and was looking for some water. Jade had a strange feeling in his body, and it was like he was seeing something shiny in the air. He turned back fast and saw his mother calling him ; Honey let's go back to the hotel have some lunch, you must be hungry sweetheart, come let's go.
el hariti adilPublished 10 days ago in ChaptersOasis: Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Beginnings Kari knew she was in trouble. The nature of the trouble, she still didn't know. It was just a sinking feeling, a barely constrained dread.
Big DreamsPublished 13 days ago in ChaptersSmartystan
Vestin Go fixed the bolts on the board. With complete concentration, he peered at the tiny pieces and worked the structure of the mode of transportation. As he finished, he sensed that glorious sensation of having finished something with aplomb. That rich aura of satisfaction washed over his entire being. He sighed like a weight had been lifted from his soul.
Skyler SaundersPublished 13 days ago in ChaptersSmartystan
The men and women of average ability only looked on with blank stares as if skeleton heads held eyes but no other organs or signs of life. What they did do, however, was organize chapters, sectors, and guilds. To keep them out of the nation within a nation, all the CS had to do was deliver them aptitude tests. They never passed. When some of them fought, got bloody-minded, and studied and still didn’t achieve a satisfactory score, they looked at themselves and challenged the Board of Information Systematic Testing (BIST) to review their virtues. This wasn’t the most tangible of things to ascertain.
Skyler SaundersPublished 14 days ago in ChaptersInterlude 04 | Aestas ¤ The Yellow Balloon
Lilit floated into the mess hall looking for something to calm her frazzled nerves. Even though she knew by heart every single prepackaged meal, snack, and drink that came out of the dispensers, she still went looking through the bins hoping to find a surprise. Eventually, she settled on a pouch of the same weak decaffeinated green tea she had chosen dozens of times before and cracked the built-in heating element at the bottom to get it somewhat warmed up—though certainly not hot. Watching her flexible carton slowly begin to reheat, she wondered how long ago it had been originally brewed before it was vacuum sealed. Sadly, she had a pretty good idea that it had been at least several years, and it did not make her look forward to choking it down, especially considering her upbringing on almost entirely fresh food.