Stories by Leon de la Garza
The hobo must have been crazy, there was nothing out there. Maybe there was a spider, or a dead animal. Maybe that guy just wanted to scare them, or maybe… just maybe…. there was something there. Something that would rattle their notions of existence, of the universe; And maybe, even if they didn’t realize…
Below the thick black clouds of a thunderstorm, under the relentless showers, amidst the lightning and the roaring skies, a hero was born. A courageous personage that would go on to explore the universe, travel the vastest of distances and learn the ways of countless other species; He would go on to defeat the enemies of…
At first I was ecstatic. Every question anyone asked, I knew the answer to. Every question I asked myself, ceased to be a mystery. It was everything I had dreamed of. Knowing it all, everything, unlocking the secrets of the world one at a time. It started locally. When my parents noticed my ability they…
“Come in please,” said the lady in the white coat, “Are you sure you want to do this?” “Hi, thank you. Yeah. I’m sure,” Leah said. She walked through the door into the large hall where a myriad different tools and weapons sat in display. “They’ll bring him in shortly.” Leah waited, she wasn’t sure…
“Are you ready?” asked Cori. “Umm… well I think we’ve got everything. You?” “I feel ready,” said Cori, “I’m so excited!” No! We can’t go yet. Maybe next year Cori. Maybe we’ll go then. I smiled, “I know! Me too. Okay, well let’s go then.” Cori walked out of the house and waited for me…
Inside the garbage storage room of the Harriette super-building two faulty androids sat together in the darkness. They waited for the crushers to come in, they waited for their end to come. And in their last instants of consciousness, the two struck up a conversation. Henrino, the taller of the two sat in a corner…
I was repairing a minor imperfection outside the passenger ship Onyx-4. I had been working as a technician on it for the past four years. It was a normal day on a flight from Mars to Titan. The ship had stopped on Jupiter’s orbit so the passengers could have a nice look at the planet’s…
It was a particularly rainy night on Industrial District 4, lightning struck the Earth permeating the air with a thundering roar. It was my first time going to another planet by myself, it was my first time volunteering for world exploration. “Hang on to your heels.” said the man in a white coat as he…
Julek Bohme was standing outside the water purifying plant on the edge of sphere #38. He looked through the thick glass towards the horizon where the sun began to hide behind the dunes of the desert. He didn’t usually think of anything while he looked outside to the sterile world, and it wasn’t odd…