Sci Fi
A Heart with a Name
Flight. The small, shimmering keepsake had experienced flight in a way that it’s inanimate body could never comprehend. The thrust such a tiny object would need to be thrown a small distance was vastly over-compensated by the mixture of emotions that scaled from pain to anger. The tiny object sailed through the air, it’s chain glistening in the sunlight, the reflecting light giving off an illusion of hope despite the feelings of loneliness that were to befall it’s previous owner.
By L.S. Niceli5 years ago in Fiction
Aftermath
Aftermath Author: Matthew Cooper Clare sat by a small fire, enough to keep her warm but not enough to attract too much attention. She nervously fiddles with her necklace which is the last physical memory that she has of her mom. Her mom gave her the necklace on her tenth birthday because, in her family, the first double-digit birthday was seen as a sign of growing into an adult. It was a beautiful heart-shaped locket that sparkled in the sun. Clare had come from a low-income family, so the necklace was probably inexpensive, but it now takes her back to a better time. While she fiddles with it, she is also trying to wipe the dust and dirt off to see some resemblance of what the necklace used to look like. She often wonders if her mother dying in the rioting was a better way to go than be alive today.
By Matthew Cooper5 years ago in Fiction
The Cold Planet
Evidence A: Transcripts from the voice messages of Alex and Claire Sawyer. Alex Sawyer, formerly a artifact scrapper on DP001, had been offered up to work at MC666, one in a series of man-made planets used to mark the boundary of the universe. Alex Sawyer was the last person to try to use the transmission tower, and as such, the correspondence of Alex Sawyer and Claire Sawyer are some of the only first hand accounts of MC666 and its eventual collapse.
By Callum J. Scheiber5 years ago in Fiction
A new Human Race
The year had begun with weather changes that some viewed as omens of things to come, rainstorms in dry-land, heatwaves in the north, and winter-like feel in the south, others simply read it as natural planetary changes. Climate change was a constant topic on the news but nothing on the media could have prepared us all; for the Darkest day that lay ahead.
By Claudia Rodriguez5 years ago in Fiction
DARK HEART
Long gone were the days when the human race dreamt of space exploration and expansion. Gone were the days when humankind fantasized about journeying between the other planets and the stars. No sane person now ever thought about terraforming other planets or covering the vast expanses of space with the assistance of antiquated ideas like human hibernation or travelling through wormholes - what childish concepts!
By Richard Essilfie-Bondzie5 years ago in Fiction
Treasure’s Gain
The world had been silenced for more than 30 years. The silence that had been brought on by the brutality men committed on one another. There was silence that was only broken in moments where others who had survived met in the brutality of the world as it was now. The long past world only seen in clips of the past. kept by those who truly cared about all the past had held. Photographs were one such rarity to possess. One photo was a wealth beyond reason. The fragility of this treasure made it such a rare prize some would die for it. The delicate beauty of a small child smiling in the sunshine frozen forever in time. This beauty would be a treasure no one would let slip through their fingers.
By Heather Westley5 years ago in Fiction
