Sic Itur Ad Astra
And, as a dying meteor stains a wreath Of moonlight vapour, which the cold night clips,It flush'd through his pale limbs, and pass'd to its eclipse._________ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonaïs The North Carolina highway, the one that led to the...
Shouting at the Forest - 0x00
Kurn twitched, brushing off the crest of his hip. There was nothing there, only an insect of his own imagination. He'd heard somewhere--maybe his grandmother told him once--that his scent attracted pollinators. Maybe that was true; the bug returned,...
best birthday ever
This is clean fun, and hard science fiction. something you don't see a lot in the tf genre, no? but it's also guaranteed to be like nothing you read before. john cried and held his cat.
Left Behind - 3
Left Behind Chapter 3 -Jack- I had been falling for a long time. That's what I could remember before terror and pain caused me to black out. That should have been it as well. A fade to black and to never wake up again. I suppose that there...
The Waystone's Call - A Solarpunk Short Story
The Waystone’s Call By Shiloh Skye ** ** **Synopsis:** In the far future, humans escaped from the earth they had ruined, taking refuge in great floating High Cities. When they finally returned to reclaim the world centuries later, they found...
Divine: Merchants of the Silent Shore - I
Merchants of the Silent Shore Chapter I "Was it the red one? Or the yellow?" Marty asked himself, holding up the two ends of wires, two of many that jutted out of the open panel like frizzy hair. He had been working for so long that he had lost track...
You Are Here
Jake agonized over the situation for the next couple of weeks while there was no further contact from the tiger and Curiosity's backup telemetry link stayed down. He wondered what it was exactly he might have done to upset the big cat. Everything had...
New kid
"science fiction and war movies", he said. lucky for us there was a movie reenacting world war ii. around the middle of the movie i accidentally put my hand on his and i blushed. he smiled back and winked at me.
Divine: The Old Gods - I
The Old Gods Chapter I "Have you ever seen Earth before?" Rem asked Teth. He leaned back in his chair and flicked his finger which brought up a holo of the planet. It looked solid, as if there was an actual green and blue rock with small swirling...
01 Shadowfox Null
# **Prologue** Shadowfox picked up another set of blocks. They were painted to look like broken bricks. Well, almost -- a flake had fallen off one side revealing brown wood. She held it so the camera wouldn't see the chip and waited for her co-star to...
Divine Chapter 9
Divine: Chapter 9 Ralos had the ability to mentally connect to all of his underlings. What was left of their former selves were gone. Long dead, leaving an empty husk for him to easily take control of and direct to cause as much havoc and destruction...
A way to the stars
Once he'd reach the thing he would take a sharp spin to bash whatever came out of there… he wouldn't find monsters, creatures or a throbbing sac of eggs… but a really messy room, that of a escape pod, like one he would find in one of those science fiction