Sci Fi
The Dragon Lady
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. There never were any dragons at all as far as I can remember. Or perhaps better explained as like not the fire breathing, fang winged, eating the princess type. But in the here and now exists a far worse kind. At least in my personal opinion. And all my comrades' opinions also.
By Michael Capriola4 years ago in Fiction
Hope's Hope
The car said, "Ma'am We are at Mega Mart. Your order is being brought out to you." "Thank you, Ms. Files." Hope glanced at the image on the back side of the mirrored lens of her Eye Shields. The augment reality was showing the site, The Village. Each member had the responsibility of using the cyber property well. This morning she was working on the high detail image of a cut crystal that hung in her clubhouse window.
By Mark Stigers 4 years ago in Fiction
Afterword
I noticed the colour on the inside of my jacket. I remembered when I stood in front of a blue screen, It made it appear like the clouds over some distant holiday resort in some space in time. We laughed about it then, we laugh about it now. Since then I have kept it closed, folding my arms or buttoning it up when I know I’m about to be in front of a screen. I still think about how it looked with the clouds drifting around me like I was akin to them.
By Hayden J Beardall4 years ago in Fiction
Lunar Nightscape Archive
Chapter 1 - The Last Day Aboard the Kriggamortis There weren’t always dragons in the valley. So long as that stayed true, we would be fine. It has been three days since our fleet was decimated by those blasted hunters. We are the only ship left of the six. Why couldn’t those elves have just left us alone! If they had, we wouldn't have had to take up piracy. One ball turret is still broken, and one booster is disabled. Spike will fix that. Finally we have some peace. May our fallen warriors find their everlasting rest in the Valley of Dust of the Eternal Star Fields — Daily Flight Log Entry: Day 258
By Vijay Klassen4 years ago in Fiction
Elementalis
The Void A beautiful marble of white and blue, the earth so small and elegant from out beyond the moon. Looking out the window of the International Space Station, Kale was sitting at a terminal looking out the small porthole window as he conducted daily systems checks. He often did his tasks quickly without much delay, but today he felt off. Perhaps it was because he had been on the station for eleven months now and the time was starting to get to him, or maybe, it was because he had doubts about the mission and his decision to leave home. He wasn’t an astronaut after all, he had won a lottery after buying an item off of Amazon. It had been twenty-five years since the founder of Amazon had taken his first group of Outer Space Tourists up for the first time. He was still active in the company, but he was starting to get old and had spent more time off planet than on. Between the two eccentric billionaires, they had colonized the moon, moved the International Space Station out passed the moon, and had started terraforming Mars. Kale's mission was simple, can the average human with little to no training be successful on a Space Research Crew. He won the lottery thinking he would be another Space Tourist. Instead, he was asked to work as a research assistant and maintenance tech for Research Crew 1536. He had a couple of military occupational specialties through his seventeen-year career in the Army. So, he picked things up pretty quickly and his crew was accommodating, motivating and were pretty good teachers…maybe a little impatient from time to time, but that was understandable. They had trained their whole lives to become astronauts and he just happened to buy the right pack of lightbulbs from Amazon one day.
By Jason Vannier4 years ago in Fiction
The Rebirth
“There weren’t always dragons in the valley. At least, not in our lifetime,” Ahti whispered. “They’ve been here before.” Aila looked up at her friend with her warm brown eyes and black hair hiding part of her face. “You don’t sound afraid of them like the others.”
By Michelle Ashleigh Piper4 years ago in Fiction
The Twenty-Five Percent
Prologue The ship darts out of its hiding place as the Predator ship approaches. It dodges and rolls, trying to simultaneously avoid the large asteroids and the Predator's lasers. At such high speeds of travel, dodging is always hard to do. Only the most experienced of pilots can pull off this tricky maneuver without crashing and killing everyone on board. It gets dangerously close to a large asteroid a few times, only to pull up at the last second. The pilot is hoping the much larger Predator ship won't be able to dodge as quickly, but unfortunately for the small ship, the Predator is every bit as agile as it is. The Predator gracefully dodges in, out, and around the asteroids and other debris firing its lasers as it goes. The lasers burst open asteroids, and space junk alike, barely missing the smaller ship.
By S.M. Cochran4 years ago in Fiction
