Sci Fi

Glitch Wipe
Mum couldn’t afford martial arts, so I got a language chip for my birthday instead. Sure, that’s cool and everything, but French doesn’t exactly save you from getting beaten on at school. “Stop hitting me,” isn’t a particularly effective method of getting someone to back off, no matter what language. And it most certainly didn’t work against Eric Jay Benson. He was a rich asshole. Which also made him a black belt rich asshole. His parents had gotten him so many fighting chips he was practically a ninja. The other day at school, he’d even done a triple backflip off the roof when the teachers weren’t watching. Bloody show-offing dick.
By Flora Nickels4 years ago in Fiction
The Admiral's Trial
By all accounts, I have been defamed. Stripped of title, authority, and rank, the disastrous results of the war have had a drastic impact upon my own livelihood. Still, one must also consider the vast swaths of regulars, officers, and conscripts whose lives have been equally shattered by this resounding (and unexpected) defeat. I pray that, by my testimony, the Tribunal may be swayed to alleviate the penalties placed upon these nearly twenty-three billion souls who now find themselves homeless, jobless, and exiled to the fringes of occupied territory.
By Patrick Leitzen4 years ago in Fiction
Death From Above
Amelia couldn’t believe it. She stared at the readings on the screen for a long moment. Teagan, Dr. Hubowski, and everyone else in the lab, stood around in silence. The asteroid was on its way to earth, and it was going to hit in 24 hours.
By Stephen Portis4 years ago in Fiction
New life
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Evan Kiedis recalled his favourite Astrophysics lecturer, Dr Fred Kersley always said this when he felt his students were not listening to him. Evan was often distracted. He often wondered why his father wasn’t like Fred. Was a sense of resignation, he could that that is just the just the nature of life and then searched for the classic Rolling Stones song, ‘You can’t always get what you want’ on his iPhone.
By Kieran 4 years ago in Fiction
Vengeance in the Void
The air passed slowly through Pyrus's pursed lips as he struggled to force his breathing back under control. The world around him shook, walls humming, floors quaking, and every item that was not bolted down crashing to the ground.
By Ryan Janise4 years ago in Fiction
Lost in Space
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Still, I found myself wondering: if someone was watching from the sidelines, would they have heard my cries? I knew the truth. No one was watching me. No, no one was there at all. The results remain inconclusive. However, I can promise you this: as I tumbled through the infinite nothingness, my screams collided deafeningly within my own helmet. I heard them.
By Lucia B.4 years ago in Fiction
Zed Is Not Zero
It didn’t seem possible, that I could become a nobody at such an early age — so the old cliché is correct: Dreams can sometimes come true.
By Eric Wolf4 years ago in Fiction
The Road To Anywhere
Being on the road was a dangerous place to be,but she had to make it. She had to. Hali didn’t really remember when exactly the world fell to absolute chaos. She was only a baby when the Others came to their planet. There was many losses from their world as many tried to bring some sort of peace between the humanity and their greatest intergalactic enemies that hovered a larger population of some cities.
By DJ4 years ago in Fiction
Whitebread Willy in a Strangle Hold
Nobody Can Hear You Scream In the Vacuum of Space, or So They Say. Willy pumped the brakes too quickly on his cherried-out 1979 F100 pickup with a hydraulic suspension system on rims from a newer Chevy Nova. The problem is it needed a part they don’t make anymore and so the 1979 front disk brakes were about to fail completely and the rear drums had to work twice as hard. Sometimes the rear wheels would lock up and skid mid way through the second brake-pump and sometimes it took 5. Good ol’ Willy never knew many pumps it would take. It was a rough ride.
By James Donahue4 years ago in Fiction
Somewhere Beyond the Stars - Part 3
"Hold your breath," my dad says quietly as he squeezes my hand. I look up at him, not sure what he means. "We're about to go through a tunnel. You hold your breath whenever you go through a tunnel."
By Merrie Sanders4 years ago in Fiction
Supercritical matter, perhaps surprisingly simple
We have a fairly good understanding of how matter behaves at fairly low temperatures and pressures, but what happens to matter at high temperatures and pressures is obscure.
By Keith P Brown4 years ago in Fiction
Mysterious dark matter 12 billion years old
Dark matter is the most mysterious presence in the universe, and although we cannot see it directly, there are some clever ways to deduce that it should be far more abundant than ordinary matter. The existence of dark matter is crucial to the evolution of the universe. In a recent study, astronomers have mapped how dark matter was distributed around galaxies some 12 billion years ago. Their findings suggest that dark matter is less aggregated than theories would expect.
By Keith P Brown4 years ago in Fiction