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The end of human zenith.
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Neil Huxley's shriek echoed inside his suit as he took in the last of his oxygen supply. He was floating helplessly in the emptiness of the boundless place called the universe. He looked on, as the craft he called home for several decades, sailed away in the sea of blackness, leaving him on his own. Hopeless, he stopped shouting, he stopped moving. He could only observe.
By Abdullah Rajput4 years ago in Fiction
New Worlds
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. That didn't stop Cersei from using her last breath to raspily whisper "Marek" as her mind collapsed unconscious, floating exposed in the cold and dark of interstellar space. The debris of the colony fleet danced and flickered, twinkling like the stars in the night sky, illuminated by the sparks and fires that now scattered and consumed the remains of the refugee flotilla she had stood on, desperately trying to repair, just moments ago. Surrounded by the demolished ships and the millions of other departing souls that had been her fellow crew-mates, crossing the void for the hope of a new world, She could have sworn, in her final moments, that she heard her the sound echoing off a nearby surface. Was that a voice of the afterlife? Had losing life in her corporeal form opened her up to hearing psychic messages through the ether of space? Perhaps, although she was certain it had been the sound of that faint whisper of her final utterance of her brother's name. But the vacuum couldn't carry sound, could it? With this puzzle and the strange vision of a great leviathan of the void intercepting the asteroid cluster that was disintegrating the rest of the Antediluvian fleet, she let go of the mortal coil and passed out of consciousness.
By Glenn McConnell4 years ago in Fiction
Empty Air
Chapter I: All Blue "'Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.' One of my more 'contemplative' colleges said that to me years ago over dinner while I was still in the academy. I thought nothing of it at the time. It would only be after my first tour that I started to see where she was coming from. It is true, of course; from a physics standpoint, soundwaves can't carry in a vacuum. But when you're face-to-face with a lifeless body floating in the great unknown—breathing empty air—you don't need sound to hear the screams."
By E.C. Weinstock4 years ago in Fiction
Riley's Rejects
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. It is, however, entirely possible not to scream, even within a fully pressurized craft. I stood paralyzed, watching my shipmates blown apart and their limbs float past me, some smearing the primary windows, as I heard horror and madness. What a wretched sound – and it came from me. Slowly backing up, I slid down the bulkhead and slumped to the floor.
By Maggie Bean4 years ago in Fiction
Trouble in Denmark
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. However, it would not have surprised me if the screams Jessica made from within the Hibernation chamber echoed throughout the rest of the ship and made their way outside. I sucked greedily at the drink tube that provided the mix of water, salt, sugar, protein powder, vitamins and caffeine – known as wake-up juice. The screams became louder as my pod door cracked opened and a blast of cold, stale air rushed in and made my body shiver. I had discovered that no matter what I wore in the sleep pod I always woke up cold. This time I had ditched the uncomfortable long johns and went with gym shorts and a tank top thinking the change would keep me from sweating as much. Nope, I was still soaking wet and the stale air from the ship made it worse. I squeezed my eyes shut to help clear the blurriness, took one last swig of wake-up juice and pushed at the pod. The top went out then up and like usual, I slid out and landed on my knees. The floor of the chamber was padded for just this occasion. As normal, I had lost all feeling in my legs. It was one of the various side effects of cryogenic sleep. The doctors didn’t know what caused it, but it happened to over thirty percent of those awakening, and the since the effect only lasted a few minutes with no long-term problems, they simply added padding to the floor. As I waited for the pins and needles to start, I looked around the chamber to see who else was up. This was it. After 200 years of space travel, we would be arriving at our destination.
By Steve E Donaldson4 years ago in Fiction
Into the Void
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Now if it was just a single scream, it could just be brushed off as something your mind made up to justify a sound. Unfortunately, the evidence reveals a much more horrifying truth. Its been nearly a month since the audio recording of the last expedition into space was released. It went viral almost instantly, and, for obvious reasons, was taken down within a day.
By Kiyona Fahiri4 years ago in Fiction
The Distance
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I’ve come to believe that there are many things we are told about the way the world works which do not always align with our experience. For most of my life I held this tenacious and, you could say, almost zealous worldview that the fundamental features of the cosmos we find ourselves in could be mapped, observed, calculated. Predicted.
By Gregory Mallett4 years ago in Fiction
