Sci Fi
Solitude
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Aleksi didn’t know who “they” were, but even if he did, he wouldn’t know what the “vacuum of space” was, so he screamed anyway. Plucked from the dense cover of his hut in the forest of what used to be Alaska, he was in a strange world he never could have dreamed existed, so he screamed quite a lot in the first days.
By Kelsey Hodges4 years ago in Fiction
The Reclaimers
Chapter 1, Canned Air Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But what defines space? “It’s the area that occupies the distance between your ears, and weighs heavily on your shoulders,” is what my dad would always hissss at me in his semi-Southern-but-also-Midwestern drawl.
By Larry Moore4 years ago in Fiction
Duty
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. That is a Groundling saying. Thumpers have a totally different saying, “When a Thumper is near, no can can hear you scream, because you are dead” The saying ends with a roar and thumping on the chest or ground. 1st Mate Tank Thumper the 21st jumped out of his body ship with a deafening roar and a heavy welcoming thump on the dusty dirt of the plateau, picked as a perfect landing site. Tank thump on his chest for pure joy.
By Shardvixen4 years ago in Fiction
Vexing Cordelia
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Then again, it’s not that hard to do. After all, I made Cordelia Mathers scream so loud that people swore they could hear it as far as Rigel, three times no less and that’s over eight hundred light years from home. It was the first time that I remember the most though. Follow. Cordelia, or more accurately Cordelia Marie Eugenie Gabriella Imelda Eva de Leonis Mathers and I were never close. How could anyone get close to someone with that many names in the way? I just had four. I am Alicia Margaret Catherine Taylor, but my friends all call me Ally. First off, some background.
By M.W. Whitaker4 years ago in Fiction
The Shadow Mind
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” The sound that had torn through Ensign Levyx’s mind did not care. So it was that he woke to a terrible echo drumming inside his brain amid an envelope of silence. Cold, deathly quiet was his only awareness now, and it spoke danger into the young officer’s barely conscious mind. As his awareness grew, Levyx realized he was laying on the deck with his shoulders and head against the bulkhead. Above him, an alarm claxon blared and warning lights flashed. He could feel only the vibrations of the alarm through the bulkhead. He shook himself, wiped dust from his visor, and struggled to assemble his thoughts. Blinking, he looked around to see that his gunnery squad was nowhere to be seen.
By Claire Millhorn4 years ago in Fiction
The Other Side
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But you can certainly hear one from inside a cryo-pod—especially when it’s coming from your own mouth. Funny how they never say waking up after a hundred years in stasis is like experiencing the trauma of birth all over again. Because it is, only this time, you remember it.
By Erika Seshadri4 years ago in Fiction
The Pulse
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. If it wasn’t for the radio waves traveling between the Captain and her crew mate Damascus, no one would have heard the final tones of his mortal frame. Space itself would absorb into its quiet infinity the cracking sound of his helmet’s faceplate along with whatever he exclaimed with his final breaths knowing that nothing he could do at this point would stop the vacuum from joining him to it.
By adam spiridilozzi4 years ago in Fiction
Pilgrim
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Nobody hears a mime being crushed under a pine in a forest either. The things people used to say. I have eternity it seems to think and ponder. Deep sleep, wake, check measurements and data and if the data is good do a fly by. I had not set foot on one planet in over 300 potential Goldilocks zones in over 297 earth years. Signals went out back to Earth but had stopped being received about 100 chronological years ago.
By Abel Everett4 years ago in Fiction
The 17 Deaths of Abraham Selinski
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. And for the average run-of-the-mill citizen of the Milky Way Galaxy, it’s true. It’s completely silent out here. Just light years of nothing. It's darkness, the absence of sound, and rogue planets circling random stars.
By Jennifer Triplett4 years ago in Fiction
