Sci Fi
In and Out of Space
-"Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say." Alain Thériault was sitting on a grassy hill contemplating the stars. He was the silent type, but the inside of his head was as vast as the universe with all its awe inspiring lights, until recently where the emptiness slowly became an obsession. His glasses were resting awkwardly on his nose. He adjusted them, then looked at the beer he was holding, his glasses came back down where they were. Undoing one button from his shirt and taking a sip from his beer, he tilted is head back to what he liked best, thinking.
By Samuël Robert4 years ago in Fiction
The Sudden Dark
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. You can see them though. Romer could, anyway. She leaned into the monitor, the better to see the flickering image of an open-mouthed, wild eyed scream. The alarms were firing, red light filling the monitoring room.
By Kieren Westwood4 years ago in Fiction
Cosmic Prime
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Is that true? Can nobody…hear me?” Jonathan floated weightlessly in space, surrounded by parts and pieces of the wreckage that was ‘The Expedition’, his ship. Far off in the distance, there was an ocean of stars. His breath was the only audible sound; within his space suit, it sounded like gas routinely escaping from a valve. His suit itself was made of thick, layered, white material, with a blue ‘UE’ (United Earth) logo in the centre of the chest. He’d forgotten how long he’d been floating aimlessly amongst the wreckage, the only survivor of his crew. He’d survived the attack by a miracle, somehow avoiding the hull explosion, only to be met with a crueller fate - a slow, cold, painful death, waiting for his oxygen to run out.
By Jason Sultana4 years ago in Fiction
Journey to Andromeda
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. It was just another day in the small town of Oakbridge, quiet, uneventful Oakbridge. Elle often referred to it as Groundhog Day. She would spend her days working her 9-5, clocking in and out of each shift, marking day after day off the calendar as if she were working towards some grand adventure at the end of the month or year. But it was just another year in small town Oakbridge. No adventures awaited her. Not this year, not the last five…
By Danielle Ernst4 years ago in Fiction
The Path
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Yet, how would they define a scream? When I take in a breadth, have I screamed? When I exhale the force from my chest, have I screamed? When my throat tears and rips the muscles of the vocal cords, have I screamed? If the sound reaches your ears, but not mine, have I screamed? Does a scream need to be heard to count as a scream?
By Z. T. Simpson4 years ago in Fiction
The groves
“No one can hear you scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” “But how do they REALLY know that? I mean cmon, it’s not like they can take the helmets off to hear it properly right?” Noah exclaimed, eyes rolling while hoku read the fact in the most ominous voice she could muster. Smoke filling the car while 311 played in her 1993 Honda Civic she had gotten for her birthday that year. They had created this Friday tradition sophomore year where they would pick up sci-fi comics, lewd graphic novels and “Riplys believe it or not” strips. Pick up Taco Bell and get high behind the old “Culty”, as Noah so gracefully put it, church parking lot.
By Tonietta graves 4 years ago in Fiction
MEGADIGRADE
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. The Little Mule spacecraft travels through space carrying two crew members, 67, a black man, forty years old, tall, strong, shaved head, stylized under a heavy face and surrounded by memories of a not so encouraging recent past, where he had lost his wife and their two children because of an accident on their planet Arcrow.
By Otavio M.G.4 years ago in Fiction
