Song of the Space Finch part 3 of 4
SECTIONS: The Launch The Battle Inside the Ship Resolutions and Learning \_\_\_The Launch\_\_\_ Fellows was laughing. "Did you see that! I've never seen anything like that! Stupid beast popped right into space. Damn, got your first look at the...
A Billion Souls
# A Billion Souls "Okay, give me two percent." Mmabs called out, pushing carefully away from the complex screen of film-thin metal sheets that comprised the entirety of the wall before him. A dim blue luminescence glimmered deep within the dense...
Party Favors
Party Favors Ka'Hal sighed as he walked through the dimly lit streets of the city block he lived on, trying not to disturb the homeless that slept on the streets. He didn't even want to look at them, not because of who or what they were but because...
Salvation
I don't usually like to write short stories or "one chapter plots", but seeing that there is a contest and all I thought why not. So here is my entry for SciFi-Summer. Enjoy! ** ** **Salvation** written by Phenrir _Nothing can last forever. Even...
The Other Side of the Stars
I threw up that morning. I had never been so nervous in my life. I ate breakfast with my mother and her smiling face betrayed a look of worry. She was probably twice as nerve-racked as I was. There was an solemn silence exchanged as our silverware...
The Mind's Eye
"Bring in the prisoner," I said with a flat, empty tone. His file floated in front of me on an unseen projection, pixel upon pixel framing the record; 'Fredrickson East, aged thirty-four, male, standing accused for suspect of high treason'. Not your...
Overcoming Resistance
The gunfire on the surface was intensifying, streaks of tracers stitching across the smoke filled sky becoming more frequent and heavy as the battle for control of the planet began its final stages. It was a losing battle, one the rebelling sector...
Tomorrow Never Knows
They say that space is the best reminder of one's own mortality. That by stopping and just looking, out into the vast nothingness broken up by stars, one is reminded of their own minusculity. And while they aren't necessarily wrong, one still can't...
Left Breathless
Imagine a world without oxygen. No... A _universe_without oxygen... and then imagine a rundown vessel chugging along through the vastness of space looking for its next supply of air for its crew. You can pretty much guess how that goes... It's total...
The Voice Inside
"Mary, put the scan up on screen." The screen blinked for a moment as the computer digested my command, a slightly longer delay than I was accustomed to. I frowned, wondering if there was some new bug in the station computer, but the blinking stopped...
Shade Hunter
The room was dim except for the glow of a computer monitor and the on light of the coffee pot. It smelled of old tobacco smoke and recycled air gone stale. Dragunov wrung his paws together and read the words again, pondering where to begin his...
Sapient Equality
_Hey everyone, _ _it's been a while since I posted something. Well, mainly because I was busy. This is my longest piece ever, almost reaching 12 thousands words, but this kind of story needed to be told all together, I guess. It's my entry for the...