Fantasy

An All-Black Delaware
The last scrap hung in the wind as the black people stood and waved at the other races going to Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The passage of the law to have Delaware implemented as a state for just Foundational Black Americans (FBA) kept the tribalist nonsense going.
By Skyler Saunders3 years ago in Fiction
The Voyager's Deathbed
The air is vibrant with sea-salty promise. The cliffside is flowered and lush. In a saltbox house, the voyager waits, bound to bed like a bird robbed of flight.
By Algernon Locke3 years ago in Fiction
The Cornerstone
The alien colony stood against a copse in Dover, Delaware. The humans in the state continued to go in and out of the camp. They received barcodes on their wrists,
By Skyler Saunders3 years ago in Fiction
Goodbye, Robot
The rash burned like tiny forest fire on Freda’s wrist. Her black boyfriend took her to the robot. His synthetic intelligence assessed the problem and added an analgesic to the wound. It began to cool. She hugged him. In all of her twenty years, she had not found a healer like this. Freda kissed her boyfriend.
By Skyler Saunders3 years ago in Fiction
Blood in the Water
Her fins flap weakly against bloodied glass. Handprints, fingers spread wide, litter the same panel. The cold current carries even more blood past her and into the vast ocean.
By Abby Jacobsen3 years ago in Fiction
On the Block Like a Statue
Vince Conway stood eight feet tall and he was 105 years old. A complete anomaly, he kept going with his power of mind. He knew how to keep a steady diet of Thunderman Whiskey and kept a stable of women with him to pass the time.
By Skyler Saunders3 years ago in Fiction
How Did Formation?
If a band of sand was formed by the sea, then what made Earth become a planet, and if the Earth is a planet, how did the solar system form into the universe we know of today, and if the universe became the universe then how did we become human.
By Braydyn Lents3 years ago in Fiction
Backward Fliers of America
It all started in the First State of Delaware. Corville Cera stepped backwards on the streets of Wilmington. He kept walking that way. People took notice. They began following this backward motion.
By Skyler Saunders3 years ago in Fiction
The Delaware Scare
The time it took the Delawareans to realize that there was no imminent threat by an attack from an otherworldly enemy was not swift.
By Skyler Saunders3 years ago in Fiction
The Forgotten City
In a distant future, the world had been ravaged by war and ecological disaster. The survivors had retreated into vast underground cities, where they lived in isolation from the outside world.
By Moh Araby3 years ago in Fiction
What’s a Star?
“I don’t care much for stars,” Leath Boss announced. “But you’re an astronomer,” Caldwell Douglasman pointed out. “The irony is not lost on me.”
By Skyler Saunders3 years ago in Fiction
The Time Traveler's Dilemma
In the year 2099, a brilliant scientist named Dr. Maria Rodriguez had invented a time machine. She had spent years working on the device, and she had finally succeeded in building a working prototype.
By Moh Araby3 years ago in Fiction