Sci Fi
The Twin Paradox. Runner-Up in New Worlds Challenge.
Nobody can hear you scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I know this to be true, as I know that panic depletes oxygen, that liquid water is required to support life, and that my life suddenly makes no sense now that we’re apart. Sound is just vibrating air, and there’s no air outside. No atmosphere. No “they” to say anything anymore.
By Wendy Musk4 years ago in Fiction
Alecron 1572
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. After that night, all I can hear are the screams of my comrades as they disappeared into that desolate void. They had been sucked out like boba through a straw but through merciless fate I had been left on this deserted island of a spacecraft. At first, I enjoyed the quiet I found myself in, as if it were my own world. Those presumed dead were mourned, all 279 of them. I couldn't imagine them still alive floating around in the vastness of space. It was hard to accept that I wasn't out there with them. Who am I to be the only survivor of Alecron 1572?
By Chandler Marcukaitis4 years ago in Fiction
Escape
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” Ophelia said and leaned forward before adding in a low ominous voice, “But when a ship, like ours…” She let the words trail off as she made eye contact with several of the children in front of her.
By P. Chiperi4 years ago in Fiction
Somewhere in This Timeplace
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. And yet my mother’s voice seems to echo back to me from every shadow of the sky. The warm, resonate sound of her scream is pinned in the stars. It hangs in the clouds around every moon.
By Alaina Sawyer4 years ago in Fiction
Alien
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I read that somewhere when we still read. The memory popped up from my external memory feeder as I reminisced over my school days in my third retirement. As every older person must do since the dawn of time, I like to bore my offspring’s clones with tales from my childhood.
By Cat Turner4 years ago in Fiction
Into The Unknown
CHAPTER 1 Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. As I stare up at the stars above, I ponder that and many things. I wonder if one day, we will find existence other than our own out there. Curious whether or not there is a me in an alternate world that is looking back at myself… Whether or not any of what I have dreamed about will ever come true. I was 10 when I did that. I can’t believe that was almost 20 years ago, when I was that curious boy staring up at the skies. Now I wish I wasn’t so curious all the time. I remember watching countless movies involving creatures of distant planets and beings of other worlds. Now I wonder if anyone will be hearing about the story of me and my crew mate’s adventures. Will anyone be left to hear it; or anyone left to tell it? One thing I do know is I’m not going to scream. No matter what happens, I will not succumb to it. I refuse to be a statistic or a cliché. I find it very ironic. I was that boy, spending so much time at night staring up at the stars and the bright night sky. Wishing and hoping that one day I could ascend beyond the earth’s hold and be free.
By Angel Garza4 years ago in Fiction
Unwilling Explorers
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. If that were true Leo wouldn’t be in this room, looking for a way out. He found this all to be a little ridiculous, having to be here just because people can’t take the slightest -
By Erlis Kllogjri4 years ago in Fiction
Alair'e
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I read it once as a writing prompt for some class that no longer matters. The prompt is wrong. I can hear myself scream and I am in space. I can hear every cell explode, turn inside out and burst like a star only to become a dwarf. To become white, hollow and dead.
By Nicole Port4 years ago in Fiction
