Sci Fi
The Last frontier
The year was 2078, and the world as we knew it had changed beyond recognition. Global warming had reached catastrophic levels, causing massive natural disasters and wiping out entire species. Governments had collapsed, and chaos reigned supreme.
By Firat Kalkan4 years ago in Fiction
Anachronism.
In many ways, we remember the history of women in clothes. In the fashions they did and did not choose. The corsets Victorian ladies laced until the boning squeezed their organs until they fell onto velvet fainting couches is how we think of that particular age of oppression. The sparkling flapper dresses and short hair are enigmatic of a newly liberated time. We conjure up and remember images and reenactments of the past, and because women are an unavoidable part of history we think of them too. Typically we imagine them young and rich, in outfits that we design now to reflect the treatment of women then.
By Lucy Richardson4 years ago in Fiction
Starlit Queen
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. For most, space is death. A cruel, unforgiving place. Once one is alone, full of fear, and languishing for breath, to shout or wail is warranted, albeit impossible; a great many have indeed died out in the void like this. Yet, space is a far cry from either malicious or malevolent. It is dangerous, but it lacks temperament, or mindset, or being. So my logical brain dictates. But I can’t help wondering, even now, as I did then, if that is entirely true. As I floated aimlessly. Pacific in an intangible realm of glorious light and colour, and of unending mystery and sublime terror. Of course the truth is much simpler than that. I do not have lungs or any similar organs in which air passes through, nor vocal cords with which to convey a scream. However, I can accurately replicate the screams, and like sounds of creatures which do possess such organs, at all frequencies. And similarly, I have the capacity to detect sounds with my advanced biomechanical auditory sensors. Thus if I so desired, I could… hear a scream in the vacuum of space.
By Samuel Andrew Milner4 years ago in Fiction
Mending a Tear
______Chicago, Illinois - 2092______ Lightning pierces the dark, stormy night sky, and briefly illuminates the swaying branches as they dodge the pelting raindrops. A slow, creeping roar of thunder startles him, and he peeks through the curtain in awe. He had been working so diligently that he hadn’t even realized it was dark, let alone storming. The wind whips through the leaves, and the sound resembles an eerie, muffled scream inside his lab.
By Holly LeuVoy (Draper)4 years ago in Fiction
Valuable
“It’s valuable and rare as can be. You won’t find another human this far out in space, I’ll tell you that much.” The Florian went on, lips turned up as he waved dramatically at the small cage. Izebta let out a huff, taking a good look at the human inside.
By Allison Rose4 years ago in Fiction
Dream Shadows
Chapter 1 The Photograph Rubbing her eyes tiredly she tried pushing away the memory of the faded print. It was her motivation but that week the nightmares were worse than usual, and she just wished it was over already. What she knew is that when she finally finished the memories would never flash again because it would be like it never happened. At least that is what she liked to tell herself.
By Ruby Estelle 4 years ago in Fiction
In Medias Res
PART ONE December 17, 2008 The room was silent except for the whisper of the oven as it warmed her dinner from the kitchen and the soft snore of her neighbor through the paper-thin walls. She had hardly moved for the past three days since coming home from the hospital; replaying over and over in her mind her mother’s last words.
By Bronson Fleet4 years ago in Fiction
Lostworld
In the vastness of space, no one can hear you scream. The events of the day had proven as much to Captain John Casey, abandoned on a one way Skimmer ride back to Lostworld and a time in the past that he could not control.But in the passage of time, could one man change HISTORY...?
By Kent Brindley4 years ago in Fiction
