Sci Fi

Marauder. Runner-Up in New Worlds Challenge.
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But it’s my job to make sure everyone can hear the screaming over comms.
By Kathryn Carson4 years ago in Fiction
Dark Adaptation
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say… The darkness is all engulfing, it pulls at you, wanting you to become a part of its vastness. It is illuding and somewhat comforting when you think about it. Drifting alone through space and time. Not having to worry about responsibilities or relationships. A calm sets in and then acceptance takes over. Then, just nothing.
By Erin Barteski4 years ago in Fiction
Station Atlantis Chapter 1
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Randall found himself questioning that fact upon hearing Rachel and Jamie in the room next to him. Not since he was a freshman in undergrad did Randall Jackson have to contend with roommates having loud sex at the witching hour. On his day off. He had heard them going at it at around 21:00 SIM Time the night prior, just as he began preparing for bed, and had thought that they were through with it then. Nope. Whatever spark of passion inspired them to wake up at 04:00 and fuck was beyond Randall's knowledge. No way their circadian rhythms still aligned with their home time zones on Earth. Perhaps their bodies had gotten too used to the emergency drills and now woke up at random times in the night. Maybe one of them had a nightmare of a Xenocephalopod devouring them whole, he had nightmares like those sometimes. Or maybe one of them had a dream of home, and awoke homesick and in need of comfort. Randall had dreams like those too. At Station Atlantis, built into the icy crust of Europa, intimacy was easily ignited by loneliness. Regardless, Rachel and Jamie were awake, and so was Randall. Knowing he wouldn’t fall back asleep, Randall sat up and stretched before inching out of bed. Amid the thumps and moans arising from the other room, he changed out of his nightclothes into a tank-top and basketball shorts, and made his way towards the exercise room.
By James Lee4 years ago in Fiction
Whispered Secrets: He Keeps an Eye on The Arcs in the Mirror
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. And, they said it loud, clear, and often enough that the gullible believed them.
By London4 years ago in Fiction
Dead Stars (Madness of Reality)
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. The black and infinite void of the universe is a cold place. It is bereft of life, of sound, of thought. It is here that beginnings come into creation and where worlds will meet their end.
By Brittany Miller4 years ago in Fiction
The Dread Pirate Redbeard
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Then again, the shackled captain thought, as he scanned the room, people’s last thoughts were seldom heard. The courtroom stood bare. Walls the cold grey steel only found in Federalé ships. If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound? The judge was a brick of a man. The jury, not a single one would he call a peer. If the airlock I be damned, the airlock I be damned.
By Christopher Beesley 4 years ago in Fiction
The Flute
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But I can still smell her scent tangled with the lab's cleaning supplies. I feel her lips. When I wake from these dreams screaming her name, I sense she must hear me. Isn't that proof enough that it really happened? That she still comes to me in my sleep? They tell me it's not.
By K. C. Wexlar4 years ago in Fiction
An Accidental Hero
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Right now, I wished I was out there, floating silently in my space suit.
By Sue Brettell4 years ago in Fiction
Deep Space Horizon
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. True, if one is in the actual vacuum of space having ‘out of this world’ sex. However, I am certain the entire crew and passengers aboard the colossal ‘Space Extraverse Adventurer’ or ‘SEA’ definitely heard the screams of pleasure that I, Captain Rene Ambrose, and my Executive Officer Callan Culp just emitted.
By Star Love Grey4 years ago in Fiction
The Elder
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. This I don’t know about; but no one can hear you scream in your own existential crisis,” the Elder spoke to the gathered children, “especially when it was my choice to be part of their experiment? Their plans? Their grand design on how the future of our species was to play out in their cosmic game? I have been alive for millennia now. How many? I’m not sure. I stopped keeping track after the first 5000 years. That is quite impressive for an advanced hominid from a galactic backwater.”
By Daniel BARROW4 years ago in Fiction
Crossroads
Chapter One Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But in the bowels of Crossroads Station – literally the bowels, as I was in pursuit through the byzantine waste reclamation facilities that surrounded the lower decks – screams echoed off of every pipe, nook and cranny in a fashion that was pretty damn disturbing.
By Patrick Weber4 years ago in Fiction
Ripples in the Void
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. They also used to say that the world was flat, and that the Earth was the center of the universe. Shows how much they knew. We shouldn’t judge them too harshly, of course. They were operating without all the information. It would do us good to keep that in mind. Chances are we’re in the same boat. Chances are we always will be. If we try to remember that, it might not hurt as much when reality comes knocking and shreds our sense of self-superiority without breaking a sweat. And it will. Every time.
By Aodhan Kelleher4 years ago in Fiction