Jeff Cochran
Bio
Jeff is a Denver based video producer and photographer. Writing speculative fiction is his dream job and he one day hopes to take a space elevator trip.
Stories (7)
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Love Lies Bleeding
The eastern sky explodes in a column of flame. I lift my hand to shield against the light. We all know this job has its hazards, evident by what we just glimpsed. I blink the after image from my retina and return my eyes to the honeycombed faceted holocube containing an image of Ella, my daughter. She’s dying and this job is my only hope of saving her.
By Jeff Cochran3 years ago in Fiction
A Locket Full of Dreams
The cross hairs are aimed squarely between his shoulder blades. I could end this threat right now. He’s fishing in my pond. The pond she and I had built the first week we settled here. Now there are more voices. More strangers are approaching the pond.
By Jeff Cochran5 years ago in Fiction
The Sunsets are All the Same
Gramps was pacing in the other room. I could hear the slap of his shoes against the bare stone floor. Grit crunched under his feet every time he changed direction. Grandma and I were trying to get ready for the presentation as quickly as possible. The pacing wasn’t helping.
By Jeff Cochran5 years ago in Families
The Make a Wish Night Light
Most people enjoy visiting the house they grew up in. I’m not one of them. Every time that old, two story Victorian comes into view the bottom of my chest falls out. My hands start sweating, followed by an army of ants making a mad dash over my scalp.
By Jeff Cochran5 years ago in Horror
Spiders Under the Bed
The boy trembled with excitement under his bed covers. His fists gripped the sheets so tightly his fingers hurt. He graced the alarm clock with a glance. Only 10:45pm. They never arrived before eleven. He couldn’t stand it anymore. He had something special to share with his friends.
By Jeff Cochran5 years ago in Horror
Observation Only
Each image was more amazing than the last. Low orbital photos of lush forests and campfires. He couldn’t believe he was looking at campfires from 15,000 years ago. The Orbital Observer was a success. Double O, as the team liked to call it, had been inserted into a synchronous orbit 250 miles above the earth, 15,000 years in the past to observe the area surrounding the Altamira caves near Cantabria, Spain. Double O surveyed the area for six-hours, then came home via wormhole. No threat of timeline contamination. Just his style; no interaction, just observe and record. He really wished his employers would let him call it Observation Only.
By Jeff Cochran5 years ago in Futurism
