A.K. Noctua

Joined June 2022

6 stories

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Sci-fi settings, fantasy adventure, witty banter. And nighthawk tendencies

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The Golden Record
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But man's first voyage into the interstellar void is infused with screams. The blood exsanguinating screams of the end of humanity.
By A.K. Noctua3 years ago in Fiction
Stowaway
Uncomfortable burning roiled Solaren from her slumber. In her groggy state, she dismissed it. Pins and needles. I should turn over. The sensation grew stronger, like gasoline doused onto flames engulfing her. She writhed anxiously, but her body would not budge.
By A.K. Noctua3 years ago in Fiction
Undue Silence [a poem]
Homeward bound after undue silence in Puget Sound Indecisive, every derision Thought you’d stay the night You were gone before the sun popped the horizon
By A.K. Noctua4 years ago in Poets
My Father, the Square
As a creative freestyling everything I did, I could never relate to my dad's straight-laced ways. Made sense that he chose engineering as a profession. He tried his damn hardest to put me on the straight and narrow. Which resulted in constant battles, and I resented him for the longest.
By A.K. Noctua4 years ago in Families
My First Time Trying Pozole
The pristine light of the summer sun smacked me across the face. The massive jackhammer in my head told me we had danced in the Devil's playground again.
By A.K. Noctua4 years ago in Feast
Wings of Frost
“There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. As there weren’t always ice shards as high as mountains on Radien. My grandmother used to tell me tales of a time where there was permaheat. And the world wasn’t yet frozen.”
By A.K. Noctua4 years ago in Fiction