Mystery
The Fall
If you have arrived here please start at Chapter 1 The Fall - Chapter 6 Pōuriuri/Into The Night Aaron wakes suddenly to a noise. He sits up quietly, listening. There is someone at the iron gate of the cell. He hears the bolt being loosened. He waits in the darkness. No one enters. Quietly he approaches the gate. It is slightly ajar. He listens. Is this a trap? After a moment he opens the gate and sneaks into the corridor. There is no one there either. Trap or not, Aaron is going take his chances. He slides along the wall at speed, feeling his way to the stairs. He stops and listens. Then moves up the stairs with stealth and precision. Ducking past the the windows he gets to the door, opens it. People are mingling, drinking, keeping warm by fires. He looks up to the sky. It is a full moon and there is no way he could sneak past the people. So he pulls his hood over his head, takes a breath then walks calmly across the courtyard. People don’t take any notice of him. Or so he thinks.
By Himiona Grace3 years ago in Fiction
One-Way Railway: Ch.2
All I gotta say is, that was the last time I take the subway after midnight. Nai Nai and I got into another fight though over my grades (what else is new) and I just had to let off some steam. She just doesn't get what it's like, being from "The Old World" and all; it's the twenty-first century now. I've got other stuff to worry about besides acing AP Calc! Or... I guess it's more accurate to say I had more important stuff to worry about. All that stuff seems way unimportant right now. Truth be told, I'd give anything to go back to our crummy apartment on the lower East Side and just tell her I'm sorry. I got a wicked temper, see, and...well, I said some things I didn't mean. I guess I'm like my mom that way. I wish I could remember more about her besides just that.
By Natalie Gray3 years ago in Fiction
Attractor
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. It’s a notion found within many cultures possessing the necessary scientific awareness to comprehend it as a concept, albeit with inconsistent wording and to differing degrees of notoriety. It should seem an inherent certainty based on what can be readily perceived of the universe, barring one key discovery. The truth must be spread, the prior attempts at which will be examined in this broadcast, so that the next one much closer to home may be pursued.
By Dominic Hodgson3 years ago in Fiction
De-void
"Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space" or so they say, that's what I thought in the depths of my mind as my lungs ached from screaming. Screaming seems pointless when no one can hear you in an oxygen filled helmet. Although, it was my instinctive reaction after being expelled from my connector cord. The concept of space remains interesting as it remains vast but close, bright but dark and attractive but warning. It's a bit more silent than you would think but that scared me a bit more, because the silence had depth in it's void. Floating idly as I gave up panicking is eerily more peaceful especially with 4 spare canisters of oxygen in my flourecent white jogger suit. I have been out for what feels like 2 hours but actually 40 minutes. The accelor watch may not be able to contact anyone for now but i still have the time running on earth's EST which we are all adjusted to. Being in space is incredible but being expelled from homehub X110 is not as incredible.The food and resources have grown desolate just as my hope of being returned to any of that. The eco-system has been going well for the population and seems to be progressing with productivity and efficiency but if they had fixed the second lower home base connector, I wouldn't be floating with my thoughts on an infinite trampoline.
By Merritt Xavier3 years ago in Fiction
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
Nigredo
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say,” spoke the man in front of a thick glass window. He spoke calmly into a microphone with his hands behind his back, watching the man inside the tank. “And yet, here you are, screaming as loud as you can as if the frequency of your cries will halt your redemption.”
By Fox Hammel3 years ago in Fiction
Red Moon. Runner-Up in New Worlds Challenge.
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space... or so they say,” the hologram echoed. The hue of the digi-board’s synthetic lights electrified the miner’s byway, silhouetting the rush-hour crowd. McParlane turned away from the advertisement and limped down the tunnel street.
By Thomas Marston3 years ago in Fiction
