fantasy
Celebrating the fantastical. Let your imagination run wild.
What's in the Box?
My mother, Dora, gave me a heart-shaped locket the day she left. I had never been able to open it. It sat around my neck for six years, only ever reminding me that I was on my own in a grief-stricken world.
Lacey StefanoPublished 3 years ago in FuturismNew Earth
No one noticed when the old gods returned. The Earth rotated, the sun rose, Lucy cooed in her crib. Kira woke, drowsy eyed, and began brewing her morning coffee. She stretched in the cool summer morning air, taking a long drag of her cigarette. “Monday” she sighed. Thoughts of getting the baby ready for daycare, phone calls, meetings, groceries, and laundry flooded her head. She paused for a moment, snuffing out the cigarette. Something was off. She looked around her back yard, at the fence covered in ivy, the overflowing garbage can in the alley, the grass a week overdue for mowing. A cry echoed from the nursery. She turned and headed inside to start the day, leaving the backyard abandoned, not noticing the profound silence. Two thousand eyes watched her go from the pine trees above. A thousand birds perched, observing, not making a sound at all. No, no person noticed when the old gods retuned, but the animals, they knew.
Violently ColoredPublished 3 years ago in FuturismAlaska Doom
Alaska Escape Doomsday Golden Nuggets Picture a Cargo train with about 100 people all tightly squeezed in trolly car. Suddenly, the Train lifts into the sky and begins to fly. Way up in the air and it a smooth sight. Lot of lights and fireworks. A lot of excitement. But then you see a little girl and she is waving to the sky and crying. Her 18th birthday has just happened. She is than seen opening a gift box and inside is a glass locket filled with golden nuggets. Imagine a locket plain glass surrounded with diamond and filled with golden nuggets. She begins to cry and said I want to go to Alaska. I want to go to the glaziers. Next you see her playing with her father and talking about what life can bring as she grows up. Her father tells her never look in the rear-view mirror. When the end of the world comes do not look back. Well, this is year 2025 and her bedroom if all mirrors. The computer images life outside the walls and look alive. Next, we see the vision of the 100 hostages and her father begins to speak. He tells his daughter to survive she will need to go to the Glazier and take her best ice pick. She will find a lot of people looking for survival pendants. The one she must find as her name Wanda made in Golden nuggets. She and several friends headed to Glazier. They are all dressed in fisherman gear and as the woman on the mountain was said to bring magic to Alaska. Wanda wanted to survive. The latest news release was that in 24 hours all humans will be killed except those who were identified to locate the nugget necklace. Doom’s day came with minimum doom. Many start to die and the funeral homes were full. People are stacked on top of each other. Once a day difference Train Cars were lifted, and they started taking people of all ages to survival. The final survival ground Alaska, the Frontier Land. All we welcome and all whose parents were still married and together qualified for survival. Wanda found a gold nugget name plate and she picks it up and begins to cry. At that moment she was chosen, and she disappears and is suddenly in the Cargo cab with her dad and mom. The next scene we see thousands of people putting on Gold Nugget cover name plates. As the plates are gathered a person is also stamping each with a Gold Life stamp. All a sudden something magical happens the Glazier open up. All looked all to the sky and snow was falling heavily. It was a cold and chilly day. In the sky was the glass locket, trimmed in diamonds and filled with Gold Nuggets. The day came when the people could live again. Then you see Wanda back in her mirrored room the news comes alive like a ghost and tell her you have survived. In this time cell phone, were no longer instead a piece of Gold Nugget was eaten by each survivor. The nugget had magnetic phone service. All cell phones were just a social security number and after doomsday the cell phone live in the head of the survivors. Births were few and in between because birth control only had to be taken one time and a person was permanently sterile. Welcome to the new world after dooms day. In Alaska in the frontier land. Wanda in her mirror room is scene accepting cell call seeing all her surviving relative with her nugget cell phone calls. The images look like shadows outside her head. Future is Good for all.
Wanda B HenryPublished 3 years ago in FuturismTraveler
Chapter 2 They were orange. Bright, virulent orange, with undulating cyan ridges from top to bottom. They were also around eight feet tall, vaguely squidlike, and didn’t seem to ‘ambulate normally.’ Instead of legs or feet, there was a dense column of short, thick tentacles beneath them, constantly wriggling and shifting to almost glide them in one direction or the other. It was a bizarre sight, but I was on an alien planet.
Taylor InmanPublished 3 years ago in FuturismThe Key to Hell
I stared at the broken heart-shaped locket that lay strewn all over the ground. I dropped to my knees ignoring the pain of rocks stabbing me through my jeans.
A.R. WilliamsPublished 3 years ago in FuturismEmpty
After two decades, we still don’t know peace. And I’m fine with that. Each year that I’ve spent as a citizen of New Yellowstone, I’ve grown stronger and less interested in the way things used to be. War is our new normal.
Tami WeaverPublished 3 years ago in FuturismEléni & M Move to Athens - Part 6
This new series has its history in the form of several short stories, several poems, and a 13-part series that is linked at the bottom via Part 5 of this series. Anthi Psomiadou has graciously agreed—you can ask her—to appear as a fictional character in this new series as well. Her full name in this series is Anthi Kanéna, or flowers without stems. I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
Patrick M. OhanaPublished 3 years ago in FuturismEléni & M Move to Athens - Part 5
This new series has its history in the form of several short stories, several poems, and a 13-part series that is linked at the bottom via Part 4 of this series. Anthi Psomiadou has graciously agreed—she did—to appear as a fictional character in this new series as well. It would not have been the same without her. Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion. Democritus
Patrick M. OhanaPublished 3 years ago in FuturismSunrise
“Sunrise,” he thought. “It’ll be sunrise, or I don’t know a damn thing about anything.” He knew they could not address the issue till then, when all of the servicemen switched on their phones from being mysteriously turned off from the moment they left work Friday until the moment they clocked in Monday. It’s true nobody likes to be called in on their weekend off. These men had additional aversions to answering that phone. Nobody wanted to work on their weekend off especially since they all knew that answering the phone meant aiding in the killing of yet another few dozen citizens whose only crime had been refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Families, the lot of them. And children. Defenseless children, who at the time had no choice in the matter save for the choice their parents had made.
Chandee RamirezPublished 3 years ago in FuturismEléni & M Move to Athens - Part 4
This new series has its history in the form of several short stories, several poems, and a 13-part series that is linked at the bottom via Part 3 of this series. Anthi Psomiadou has graciously agreed once more to appear as a fictional character in this new series. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Epicurus
Patrick M. OhanaPublished 3 years ago in FuturismEléni & M Move to Athens - Part 3
This new series has its history in the form of several short stories, several poems, and a 13-part series that is linked at the bottom via Part 2 of this series. Anthi Psomiadou has graciously agreed once again to appear as a fictional character in this new series. The French subtitle means, A Foursome by Two. How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. Alexander the Great
Patrick M. OhanaPublished 3 years ago in FuturismThe Timeless Locket
I was born after the world ended, not ended as in the world is gone but ended as in what used to be is no longer. I never knew the old world, only tales from the elders who described a world where information was accessible at a touch. A world where metal birds flew in the air and people drove metal boxes on roads. This world that was described to me seemed like a fantasy. Those things do not exist any more, Some say humans were the culprit, others say it was just happenstance. I have no theory on what happened. All I know is the barren dark world that consumes our lives day in and day out. Food is scarce, people are cruel and life is hard. Daily quests into the dark wood to search for foods of any kind claim the lives of many on a daily bases, I am Henry my age is fifteen and this is my life.
Dalton RogersPublished 3 years ago in Futurism