Science Fiction
Project Gleam
The streets of Illumina fell into the most eerie and deafening silence ever imagined. The Pulse system was more than just Illumina’s mode of communication. No one could do anything. Closed signs appeared in store front after store front as even the simplest and mundane task of buying something was impossible.
By Jasmine Aguilar3 months ago in Chapters
Who's the real Monster?. Content Warning.
Continuing to use Armstrong's body as a meat shield I patted the sand close to me. Ed slowly came to my side. Using both Armstrong's and my own body I made sure nobody had a clear shot to hit Ed. I didn't need to hear Eric's thoughts to know that if Ed got hurt there would be Hell to pay.
By Lucy Torralba4 months ago in Chapters
Violet Odyssey- Chapter 5
The air inside the dusty portable was, if possible, hotter than the scorched sand outside. I grimaced as I peeled my sweat-soaked back from the sticky plastic chair and stole a glance outside. The trio of executives in their crisp polos were still talking with my acoustics professor beneath the shade of a tan canopy strung from the side of the temporary office.
By Thomas Speer4 months ago in Chapters
Violet Odyssey- Chapter 4
I felt warm sunlight on the side of my face as I lifted it from the desk, blinking and yawning loudly. I groaned and rotated my wrist. My forearm was numb and red where my head had been resting. Wiping a line of drool from the corner of my mouth, I looked stealthily around the room.
By Thomas Speer4 months ago in Chapters
Violet Odyssey- Chapter 3
The rest of the ride was eerily quiet. For my part, I couldn't put any useful thought into words. Colonel Killough had retreated to his enviable stoicism, wearing a glower that would've made Plato nervous. The Staff Sergeant and Crew Cut had disappeared behind their professional masks again.
By Thomas Speer4 months ago in Chapters
Violet Odyssey- Chapter 2
I clapped my notebook closed, leaving my green pen between the pages to mark my place. It always pissed my research lead off that I wrote in green. I'd sat through far too many lectures on professionalism, but Acoustic-Harmonic wave theory was hardly the stuff of great focus and attention these days, so none of my superiors had much fight behind their bluster.
By Thomas Speer4 months ago in Chapters
Violet Odyssey- Chapter 1
It had been unseen for over nine years, and the tenth was drawing to a close with the flight of the fireflies and the last gasp of spring's chill before the rough heat and humidity of summer settled over the kingdom. The paling blue hue in the sky looked ordinary and wonderful in every way from the tops of the shrugging hills, where long grass swayed among lightning bugs. But the lights that flickered and danced across the yawning stone-and-metal meadow below radiated anxiety and enterprise. They told a story of opportunity and apprehension.
By Thomas Speer4 months ago in Chapters
Who's the real Monster?
~ Hannah I have no idea why I'm still taking orders from her. No, not her, they. I have to take the opportunity to get my radio. I swear if anything happened to my mom. If she was on that helicopter I...I. I wouldn't be able to do anything. Z knows my secret and they will use it against me. I just need to find my mom then find a way to get out of here.
By Lucy Torralba4 months ago in Chapters
Who's the real Monster?. Content Warning.
Taking even more time to sift through his memories I saw and felt severe repressed rage that almost matches my own. Ignoring all of it I saw that the helicopter was headed to an air force base in Hawaii, I dug deeper to find other secrets.
By Lucy Torralba4 months ago in Chapters
Join the Club, Chapter Three
If the oilseed was dead, then next second Sheila all but jumped out of its final resting-place at the sound of screeching tyres. Vramm like a crimson squiggle was weaving his front fender in and out of the various lanes, avoiding every hazard not to mention other golfers who were rapidly fleeing for the gate. Twice as swift was the rearrangement of components which shifted Vramm from four wheels to twin soles skidding to a halt beside his charges, but none of that was to say the big boy was slow in adopting a slightly realigned stance relative to the sun.
By Doc Sherwood4 months ago in Chapters
