Adventure
The Lost Ark by Zachary A. Pieper
Event Log: 1 Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Raphael knew he didn’t want to find out. Yet, he always felt this compulsion when he looked out the viewing window on the observation deck. The compulsion to go find out exactly that. Even though it would basically require someone’s death, and he tried to rationalize it away, tried to smother the morbid little curiosity inside him. He never could. He lifted his cocktail to his lips as he contemplated whether or not the mania was getting to him. He thought maybe a trip to the Doc might be wise. But he didn’t want to be put on meds. Or worse, on ice.
By If You're Feeling Adventurous...4 years ago in Fiction
Technopenuriaphobia
"I refuse to believe that the mining of H.O.P.E is a mistake! It is man's destiny to be an explorer, and transluminum has offered humanity a massive leap in the endless territories of technological progress! Any attempt to put a stop to this work is an insult to science, to freedom, to miracles and to the future itself, and I will not stand for it! I will do whatever it takes to send humanity to the next level of its evolution!" - excerpt from Tony Musk's speech at the Emergency Space Committee, year 2223
By Ragui Elissa4 years ago in Fiction
Sunk by the Moon
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But you can see one. You can almost feel one. The muscles flexing as powerfully as they ever have, desperately trying to force oxygen down their lungs, but there is none. Meanwhile you float ideally by, helpless, staring and scrabbling over to try to aid the futile. In the void of space, I’ve never heard such savage silence in all my life.
By Chris Mitchell4 years ago in Fiction
Before I Rejoice
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Professor Jean-Yuu in his 23rd century paper on The Man & The Stars, commented on the ‘human’ in space. Of the few races across the cosmos to evolve from the hominid, it is in our nature to conquer and scorch an indifferent universe with divine prejudice and governance. To a multiverse otherwise existing, we spend our days searching for purpose, for rationality, for order. The human condition and motivations lie in psychotic self-involvement, the only race that would otherwise scream in space– for other claves have already understood that nothing could hear you… What does that mean?
By Adam Terrelonge4 years ago in Fiction
The groves
“No one can hear you scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” “But how do they REALLY know that? I mean cmon, it’s not like they can take the helmets off to hear it properly right?” Noah exclaimed, eyes rolling while hoku read the fact in the most ominous voice she could muster. Smoke filling the car while 311 played in her 1993 Honda Civic she had gotten for her birthday that year. They had created this Friday tradition sophomore year where they would pick up sci-fi comics, lewd graphic novels and “Riplys believe it or not” strips. Pick up Taco Bell and get high behind the old “Culty”, as Noah so gracefully put it, church parking lot.
By Tonietta graves 4 years ago in Fiction
Wayward Souls
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I think that’s awfully assuming. Awfully presumptuous. A bit pretentious and possibly true. I doubt anyone ever tried to test it. Not really. Not a true, gut wrenching and agonized scream. One of terror and pain. The whole of the time this project was enacted, the years we spent orbiting the earth, I’m sure the only screams were ones of joy. Of new life. Of happiness.
By A.L. Davidson4 years ago in Fiction
Finding Home
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. As Rayne tumbled through the emptiness of space, her screams were anything but silent. Her screams were everywhere, surrounding her. So many thoughts and questions were clanging through her mind. She had been rejected, thrown out, abandoned by her crew, her family. Tears streamed down her face. She should be dead. Everything she knew about space told her she should be dead. Her screams should be silent. She shouldn’t be crying. The end was supposed to be quick and silent and painless. There was no pain, but her fear was overwhelming.
By Brittany Swenk4 years ago in Fiction
