Curiosity
When you peer into the abyss, sometimes the abyss gazes back-Nietzsche Every state institution that's more than a couple years old has skeletons in the closet. Doors best left unopened. Topics avoided by mutual agreement. No exceptions. Ours was...
Home
When I joined NASA at the Kennedy Space Station, I really thought it was a dream come true. I?d spent my whole childhood wanting to be the one talking to the aliens whenever they wanted to have a conference with humanity. Of course, I got older and...
Coming out of the tent
He'd made Shannon Connelly cry, the bastard. Nobody messed with Shannon Connelly, because there was no reason to do so. Everybody loved her. She was head of the film club at school, and had the best taste in film. You'd think that's not objective, but...
Bored Meeting
**"Bored Meeting"** **By Terry Echoes** At least twenty years had passed since Calvin Phosphene had been a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed recent college grad excited for his life to be given an opportunity with Wellerbeans Ltd. Inc. Co. He did not...
Creative Writing Exercise #6: Still At Large
A twelve-state manhunt continues for rogue doctor Addisu Nassir, who made international headlines last month by conducting unauthorized human trials of his medical research. Despite no demonstrated health risks in his patients, Nassir made...
Dragoman
I woke up in a white room groggy. My head hurts so badly. And my body felt it was on fire. I move but couldn't. Realizing I have a tube up my nose and that I'm strapped down in a hospital type bed by my wrist and ankles. I shout out wanting to get the...
Creative Writing Prompt #3: Character Study
#3 of creative writing in creative writing, we were given prompts and told to describe the character. i think we were given about ten minutes. here's mine.
S.H.O.T.A
My team and I work with a program called Simple Heuristic Operations Tracking Algorithm. Yes. We are aware what the acronym spells. You don't have to tell us. Believe me, we've heard our share of jokes--especially with regards to how it relates to...
Never Taste Freedom
Hector Elizondo hadn't been looking for it, but he'd found a solution to quitting smoking. First day I met him, he had a cigarette stuck between his lips. His goofy, smug smile held his cig at an upward angle so I thought he might stick the damn thing...
An Unusual Pregnancy
Agreements are made when moneys are paid in exchange for the work of my pen. Commissions l gained, grotesque and mundane portraying the longings of Men. Although l have had affairs good and bad, yet the strangest accruing to me was...
2811042 Blackraven2_the_shrink
"This is the first time I ever had to sign an NDA to see a patient. Now, tell me what you have in there? It's not an alien, right? Don't tell me all that Area51 nonsense is actually real, is it?" The lemur asked, slightly amused. "Nah, nothing like...
incubation
"... Warning! Evacuate! Hull breach! Emergency power low. Life support critical! Warning! Evacuate!...." Lurien jumped up, sweaty and shaken. Her helmet had hit the instrument panel in the cramped cockpit of the prospector shuttle. There was no...