Sci Fi

Wherever You Are
The sun is setting with pastel pinks bleeding into deeper purples without any clouds to tarnish the beauty. In the distance the sirens song of the ice cream truck plays and on my block, chubby toddlers and their sibling laugh manically as they run through the sprinkler set up in the street. Everything about today is beautiful and carefree, except it’s all a mirage. The laugher covers a blanket of thick anxiety among adults listening intently to portable radios crackling with static because despite today being a gorgeous day, it’s December 17th in New York. As I walk into the yard, the radio on my phone begins giving a forecast: “In other news, the heatwave hitting the Northern continents has turned into an ice wave in the Southern continents. Scientists are working diligently to understand the root of the issue but have warned us to expect the warm weather….” By the time I go to bed it’s 9pm and the sunset is still happening.
By Jessica J5 years ago in Fiction
The Perils of Planets as Playgrounds
It used to be such a pleasant place to visit. I used to go when I needed a diversion. The vegetation, from the smallest watermeal to the tallest sequoia, had such personality, flamboyant really, quite chatty. The animals were generally a rambunctious, creative, and emotive lot; they always made me laugh. The water and rocks collaborated far better than on other planets, even though the water usually won any arguments over time.
By Carolyn Kost5 years ago in Fiction
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By Jeremiah Ward5 years ago in Fiction
The Secret Of The Heart
The waiting room was draped from top to bottom with purple wall features, these flag like structures ran down to the floor. They canopied across the cieling as they intertwined with chandeliers of gold. Pillars of hazy marble held the building firm.
By H.M.Klein5 years ago in Fiction
The Heart-Shaped Locket Gang
I awoke from my dream to a startling realization: I was an illusion. Just a dream being dreamed. Sure, I could still touch my face, hear my heart beating, smell Natalie’s perfume as she slept next to me, taste the joint from last night upon my tongue and see the flames shimmering in the sky outside my window, but I was gob smacked to discover that this human being who my parents had named Mark didn’t exist. My timing, as always, was a calamity. The world, at the very moment of my breakthrough, was hurtling into the abyss due to the sudden massive rise in sea levels and the disarmingly absurd fluctuations in weather.
By stone petoskey 5 years ago in Fiction
Found at Lost
No time to think what do I take? It didn’t happen the way everyone thought it would, some earth-shattering projectile hurling from space. A World War would have been more predictable. It was a slap in the face of humanity, seeing that it was caused by our need to defend the planet after Asteroid Janis224’s near miss of the moon’s dark side. That asteroid had a profound effect on humanity as a whole. Millions watched for weeks as news agencies covered Janis224 around the clock until it changed course 3 days before it was supposed to make contact. The whole world rejoiced! This also brought the world’s greatest minds together who developed a space defense system. All that brain power and they settled on . . . Space Force. Boy, if President Trump was alive to see that day. All nations pulled together when it seemed like life was on the verge of extinction, Christians were seen worshipping with Muslims, North Korea joined the United Nations, and Israel and the Palestinians set differences aside and drafted border lines that all agreed to. The world watched as piece by piece, the defense system was manufactured, sent off into space, and assembled on the moon. As the world celebrated this major accomplishment, unforeseen events millions of miles away changed life on Earth in a drastic way.
By Kevin Carroll5 years ago in Fiction
Memeing to Midnight
First it was bitcoin. Then it was dogecoin. Then it was doomcoin, a cryptocurrency that’s value was supposedly tied to how close the doomsday clock was to midnight. Not even a real thing, yet non-real things can have realest of consequences if enough people treat them to be real. Make-believe can be a powerful force. But perhaps the most powerful force of all is better phrased as believe-make.
By Daniel Viger5 years ago in Fiction
The Dragon Mines
“Dad. -I still can’t understand.” Daughter steals a momentary look up at me. Then her eyes returned to the gentle movement of the river in front of us, as if the water itself gave minor solace to her soul. A small, winding, nameless tributary feeding into the Mississippi River.
By Daniel Roope5 years ago in Fiction
Chocolate cake
‘I love you the way I love chocolate cake.’ Tristan said. Cinzia laughed and blushed. The way he looked at her made her at once nervous and elated. Every moment together was a risk but, despite everything her intuition told her, she kept seeking him out. She had to be near him.
By Ashley Somogyi5 years ago in Fiction
Scorched
The dying rays of the evening sun cut across the dust-covered remnants of the apartment. Thin lines of hazy smoke wafting from the light-scorched floor, blackened from the eternal rotation of the sun. The light illuminating a metal locket, once a beautiful gold, long since faded. A crack, thin and winding, etched its way from the hinge, ending its jagged path near the center. Swiftly, a sunburnt hand reached from the shadows, pulling the locket into the darkness as the metal began to heat, the skin almost instantly starting to singe and burn.
By Sovereign Scholar5 years ago in Fiction
Searching for A Heart of Gold
I’m getting headaches again. It feels like we are all just animals in the zoo. It turns out the scientist in Israel who tried to warn us about the Galactic Federation wasn’t really so crazy after all. He was actually trying to tell us about the good ones. Apparently, in the same way that humans have “good” and “bad” people, intergalactic beings do too. The “Galactic Federation” are the good guys and the not-so great guys insist on being called “Masters”. We call them “Masters” when they are around, but they're just Phobots. Just Dirty Phobes. They love watching wars and spend a lot of money to sow chaos, and the Galas just keep on protecting us. Our inter-planetary ambitions have finally paid off! Except, human hubris genuinely believed we were the most advanced species in the universe.
By Messtiza Noire5 years ago in Fiction
Perfect Child
Shandi and Avery are just entering their teenage years. They are fraternal twins that just barely turned thirteen. Their parents are now allowed to decide if they will keep their children the way they are or if they will take them into The Company to be conditioned to be the "The Perfect Child." This avoids the usual teenage hormone rage filled years. You skip right ahead to the more mature years without aging. Many parents have done this and have had amazing results.
By DMTakeshi5 years ago in Fiction