Naven and Gia waited anxiously in the control room of spaceship Xenesis. They were the last remaining rebels in the fleet. They were the splinter in the fabric of peace and order. Gia turned to the floor, watching the secret hatch beneath the operating center. “I’ll be alone Naven”, she said, “Maybe we should just…
Month: May 2013
Free Man
I was born in the 3024. Today’s choice is the first real choice I have ever made. The times were not fit for liberty, the war with the Julians was at its terrible peak in violence. You probably think right now is pretty bad, but believe me. It was worse. I was born into the…
Upon the Second End
Hasil and Bharma sat together at the control room. A small white room deep beneath the Earth. Under its mantle, under its tainted skies. Under the last remnants of a dying world in a sad alien future. “I don’t know how long we’ll be able to keep this up. When will we know it worked?”,…
Burning Through the Sky
Wake up. The darkness in my eyes was impenetrable. The weight of my mind was inmesurable. The silence, perfect. Wake up! A rush of adrenaline shot through my body. My eyes burst open, my heart pounded like a angry gorilla. I found myself free falling through the atmosphere of a red planet. Was I back…
The Rusty Safe
The day it happened.. it was about 20 years ago. We were both little kids. None of us had common sense. We loved it. There was this one time when something interesting happened. We had been hitting bullets with a hammer that day in the corner of the barn, but we saved the last for…
Vices of a Lonely Man
I had been sitting in my quarters watching the roof, counting the number of stains on it. I was supposed to be out in the engine room. The backup cooling system had been acting up lately, and I meant to fix it. I knew it wasn’t urgent, it was after all the backup system. I…
From the Depths of Space
Nate and Isiah where sitting in an 19th century styled bar sipping at their drinks, glancing over their shoulders at the shadows. “I know what it is”, said Nate, his tired face seemed pasted on his head, “I know what they are”. “Well tell me then, I haven’t been able to sleep well in days….
Office Conspiracy
It was Dan’s 15 minute break and he was sitting at his desk slacking. His day at the Singularity Research Institute was not going well. So far nobody had told him who he would be assisting and he felt useless just browsing through the internet. He sighed and accidentally dropped a pen he had been…
Squid From Outer Space
The sea soldiers’ 7th platoon was getting ready to take back the west coast. The squid from space had overrun most of the beaches, they knew they were strategic positions. The great white breeding program began almost as soon as they invaded our oceans. There is currently one shark for every ten human beings. The…