Sci Fi

Don't Ever Visit This Island
Imagine a sandy beach on a remote Hawaiian island. It's surrounded exclusively by a warm ocean and untouched nature. There are only a few hundred local residents on the island, but you will hardly meet them. Would you like to spend your vacation there? Well, I'll disappoint you. It's the island of Niihau, and it's been closed off from the rest of the world for more than 150 years.
By Corey Turner3 years ago in Fiction
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 Saunders4 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 Saunders4 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 Saunders4 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 Saunders4 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 Saunders4 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 Saunders4 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 Saunders4 years ago in Fiction
Friend to Time
“I said I won,” Garson Bartham remarked quietly. His wife pounced on him. It was a ticket into the future for two. She kissed his beard.
By Skyler Saunders4 years ago in Fiction
Shake a Hand
When she shook the black man's hand, her ivory white skin turned black, too. She then shook a red man’s hand and it turned yellow.
By Skyler Saunders4 years ago in Fiction
Cylindrical
The black man looked again and saw their heads. Like giant soda cans, the people on the street all carried heads that looked cylindrical.
By Skyler Saunders4 years ago in Fiction
Out of Range
"We need extractors. I've found a whole new material!" "Apologies, sir, but you've lingered too long. We must insist you return to the vessel. This was a water run."
By Matthew Daniels4 years ago in Fiction