Horror
Infinita
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Sound requires a medium for its waves to ride, some sort of volume with which to hit sound shores. My cries, deafening as they might've been, had hit a wall of nothing. My throat became hoarse and soon after, blood trickled out of my mouth, mixing and swirling with the fluid in my suit. The only shore my waves hit was that of my own ear canal. Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, save for me. Madness is my medium.
By Jorge Goyco Díaz 3 years ago in Fiction
The Swamps
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” It’s a line travelers use to make themselves feel daring, a ghost story to frighten neighbors already too fearful to venture off their home planets. But for those that dwell in the vacuum itself, adrift in the vastness, the question of who can hear us bears little relevance. We know better than to think that anyone is listening.
By Arsen Ellion Quill3 years ago in Fiction
Swallowed Screams Aboard The Screaming Agony (Disturbing Content Warning)
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. That doesn't stop me from screaming inside of the aptly-named spaceship, The Screaming Agony, with every bit of breath I can manage. Partly out of sheer, excruciating pain.
By Megan Baker (Left Vocal in 2023)3 years ago in Fiction
The Hive
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say, Commander Bak thought darkly to himself, as made his way towards the bridge of the massive space craft. He did not want to find out if it were true. He had gone so long without knowing and today was not the day.
By Jane Adler3 years ago in Fiction
Crossroads Demon
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. If, however, the hardvac suit you’ve been marooned in contains enough trace O2 and power, the last few hours of your miserable life will be full of futile screaming. And yelling. And crying. I have on good authority.
By Hans Apollo3 years ago in Fiction
Interplanetary Transport
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Sound needs a medium to propagate. Ultrasonic transducers need gel to transmit sound waves to and from a body. Air is a much less efficient medium, but it works just fine for most sentients. In the vacuum of free space, however, there is no medium, but the "temperature" of space has been measured to be ~2.7 Kelvin. Though heat can radiate, for something to have a measurable temperature requires that thing to vibrate / possess energy. What is there in the vacuum of space to vibrate? Leftover radiation from the big bang? Ether? Space dust? No. I'm increasingly thinking that it's pure terror.
By Sanjay Prasad3 years ago in Fiction
Parallel
Parallel Becka Ashcraft “Nobody can hear a scream in space, or so they say.” The ruffle at the bottom of her skirt caught in the escalator as she neared the top of the second level. Desperate fists with white knuckles held tightly to her waistband as the fabric began to grow taught and stretch, fighting against her grip to escape into the metal step that disappeared into an unknown world.
By Becka Schmidt Ashcraft3 years ago in Fiction
