Sci Fi
Listen To The Thunder With Me
She reaches the top of the ridge and is smacked in the face by the view through the barren trees: a vast expanse of devastation stretching from just below her all the way to the horizon. Countless skyscrapers replaced with haphazard piles of concrete, glass, steel, asphalt, brick, and shattered memory. Ruins of an evaporated civilization, the detritus of all earthly existence.
By Nathan Perriello 5 years ago in Fiction
The Symbol
The team and I were 25 klicks inside containment zone 32 when I found it. Zone 32 surrounds the ruins of John F. Kennedy plaza in what’s left of Center City plaza. This thing I found, it’s on a silver chain and I wouldn’t have noticed it if I didn’t hit the ground when two muties got the drop on us. The muties are really bad in 32.
By John Absher5 years ago in Fiction
Sunset.
Sunset. He pushed aside the splitting timber gate and walked the barren path to his front steps. He stood before the boarded windows of his house and decided to sit a while before going inside. The light at this time of the year, even with nothing much to fall on, reminded him of his childhood. The pink of the clouds, the rusty sky. The breeze swirling with metallic dust. Then, it had been seasonal. Now, it was permanent.
By Hugh Kilpatrick5 years ago in Fiction
Life Inside
Little girl (year 2031) finds a beautiful translucent locket, that holds a miraculous secret. (Inside locket) a city of non-christians, survived the ending of the world in 2041, through technilogical advances that allowed them to be transported to a parallel plane. (A fact they should've asked more about.
By Jasmine Woodson5 years ago in Fiction
Echoes of Eternity
Chaos reigns. Anarchy rages. A cracked echo of what the world used to be. If you manage to survive the rubble and savagery, you only have so long until the Delegates find you. An overpowering, totalitarian force cleansing its way through any remains of sanity. Any impurity or imperfection is eviscerated from the remains of Earth’s feeble surface. The few survivors are the strongest and the most valuable. Fossil fuels were always temporary, but we were blinded by money and greed. Society was on its knees and the Vatican took over. The Delegates enforce the word of the divine tyrant, purifying the people of earth through fatal indoctrination. The damage was irreparable. Some try to save the remnants, but they’re barely worth saving anymore.
By Fraser Anderson5 years ago in Fiction
Red Sand
I can’t remember much before that day. Many times, I've sat in the darkness, trying. Always, the images rush before my eyes like a speeding train. The lights of the carriage flicker through the scratched-plastic windows, revealing unfamiliar faces that I almost recognise the feeling of. They faces stare back, and I feel like I might remember. Then the lights go out and I am left alone coated in the silent, sweaty darkness.
By Julian Okamoto5 years ago in Fiction
FINDING GAGA
2061/04/21 DIARY, a small lifetime passed tonight with me staring at your solar-powered, superannuated screen, not believing what I’d typed. If only you weren’t an iPad machine but some Deux Ex Machina with Ctrl+Z abilities beyond the digital to undo the reality of these words:
By Lola Marche5 years ago in Fiction
Excerpts From a Journal; Circa 2246
Summer, 2246, 13th Entry We ran into a town today. From here, it looks like more of the same. It’s likely that they’ve been…... Johnny volunteered to go, I think I’m going to …... I can’t stomach the sight of the bones, picked clean of their flesh, but I need to find Sarah a gift. It has to be close to her birthday. We’re going to camp here for the night, and head into town when…...
By Brandon Boyer5 years ago in Fiction
The Image of What Used to Be
At this time of night, the sewers were crawling with scavengers. They picked through garbage and muck, thrusting their hands into the frothy water that trickled through the putrid caverns. Bit was among them, sifting through the trash, side by side with other Scants who were eager to find spare parts.
By Miranda Rasband5 years ago in Fiction
