Sci Fi
The Beast in the Fog
The beast beckoned to me from the fog, the unfamiliar harmony of high pitch cries rousing the hairs on the back of my neck. It was closer this time. I took the last drag from my cigarette and calmly blew the smoke out of the open window. The orange glow inside of my patrol car faded back to early morning gray. A dense fog had snuffed out the usually bright rays of first light, obscuring the visibility of anything outside. It was not as dark as the night had been of course, just dreary. I had not minded the dull colors this morning. I rather enjoyed being eased from the darkness into the light of the day. The fog however, seemed to prolong the process of the rising sun. The fog did not prevent everything from being seen. It merely masked the light of reality. This concealment would not hide a gigantean beast, but rather allowed it to stand in the shallows of the tree line without being noticed. If a larger creature had wished to remain unseen but yet still wander closer to civilization, this would be the morning to do so. The unfocused and not fully awake eyes of any passerby would hardly be able to distinguish between the looming mass and the dark shapes of larger trees.
By Brandon McWethy4 years ago in Fiction
Millie
Millie (Chapter One) David Stringer is sitting in his office, located on Palo Alto, across his desk from Evelyn Sharma who is accompanied by a man holding a camera who is, unobtrusively, taking photographs of David and his office. David is a computer scientist specializing in machine learning. He is also, now, a successful entrepreneur, founder and CEO of The Millie Corporation. Evelyn is a journalist of 25 years the last 12 of which have been with Time Magazine and she is here because she is writing a cover feature on Millie. This is the first time that the magazine has featured an artificial intelligence on its cover.
By Steve Rogers4 years ago in Fiction
Terra Nova
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Vivian and I were thinking the same thing as we were seated next to each other, on relatively comfortable seats, at least as comfortable as the ones on the old planes. She and I used to travel quite a lot together but we had never thought that one day we would be together on an interplanetary shuttle, on our way to an unknown world, at least until a few days ago. Flying into space had always been a dream of mine, but in these current conditions space was no longer appealing to me.
By Philippe Borgonovo4 years ago in Fiction
I am Leaving the earth
Dagmar Göschick I am Leaving the earth Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Maybe that is why I’m leaving this beautiful planet we call Earth for a New Planet identical to Earth. Planet Earth2, or better known as El Mundo. They say it’s even more beautiful, and it is just the beginning for us, the new civilization. It’s nothing compared to the old days when they opened a boxed community on Mars. This here is pure life. There is no need for us to invent new technologies as we already have them all of them on board with us. Us as in our captain Mark and his wife Elly, our electronic freak Jason, and his lovely wife Molly, along with their 3 children Luke, Howey and little Sara, our Doctor of Medicine Virgil Hunt with his beautiful partner Minnie Dawson, thank God she is a dentist!!! Then we have our environmentalists Jimmy, Marion, Brian, Frank, Lucy and Sylvia, along with Svenja, Inger, Serge and Bill who are biologists. The construction crew who has joined us is comprised of Ben, Mike, Todd, Jay, Ron and Steve. Then there’s me Sally, I’m the only writer here on board the Spaceship. Of course, we aren’t the only ones who have boarded as there are plenty more people on board the Spaceship 1. We have people on board with their families who come who all have different educational backgrounds, and who work in different trades to ensure we can establish our new society as quickly as possible once we land. In total we are 1,500 people traveling with the use of the speed of light, which was discovered accidentally 10 years ago, otherwise this would be still a dream for all of us – travelling through the universe. Oh, I just forgot to mention the name of our spaceship: don’t laugh, we came up with Enterprise. The old pals from the movies, Spock and Co. are still with us.
By Dagmar Goeschick4 years ago in Fiction
The Perception of a Scream
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. What they don’t mention is that you can see a scream in space. It’s so cold and there are no particles moving that when someone screams, you see it like a fog in winter. You see the moisture leaving their body and you see the particles moving from their voice. But there’s no air to carry the scream, so you can’t hear it. You can only see it.
By Jolene Poulin4 years ago in Fiction
