Sci Fi
Cascade Failure
New words entered the public lexicon that day. Words that the average person had not read, heard, or even fathomed before. Cascade failure and gamma-ray burst were seen in headlines with antiquated, even Biblical terms like famine and extinction.
By Kyrell Kendrick4 years ago in Fiction
Welcome to The Valley
There weren’t always dragons in The Valley. They arrived much later, like phantoms from the shadows. Once the reeds had grown tall, the mountains had been carved down, and the trees had tangled themselves up like lovers. The dragons came with the last wave of changes. The Valley needed impact. Guardians to lure in adventurers with their jewel colored scales and legends of riches. So, the dragons came into existence.
By Alycia "Al" Davidson4 years ago in Fiction
Lackluster
Golden skin, golden eyes, and golden hair; she was the picture of beauty and perfection. Every man who had ever seen her was immediately smitten. She would have none of them. She was beautiful, intelligent, and wise the only things they were attracted to. It was her outer beauty. All she ever wanted was a man that could look past all of her beauty and bother to see the person within; none had even tried.
By S.N. Evans4 years ago in Fiction
Time Barbarians
by: Dennis R. Humphreys Dr. Theodore Schoeffer was considered the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein. He made his first splash, two years after obtaining his master's in physics from Berkley. Since then, in his illustrious twenty years career, he had shaken the world of physics with dozens of papers and three popular books. His thinking was revolutionary. He developed a keen interest in studying space and time adopting Einstein's position that time travel was not possible... but that was by the conventional means dictated by his calculations. The force to move any mass in time or space by bending it required exponentially huge amounts of energy and the forces created for such a feat were so destructive as to tear matter apart, something the human body wouldn't take well to. Still, not trying to bend time and space under the present dictates of the scientific community or duplicating a wormhole, or finding one to enter, or worse yet a black hole that would prove destructive... Dr. Schoeffer felt there might be another way. That project started fifteen years ago and what may have been a lifelong exploration appeared to possibly be coming to an end.
By Dennis Humphreys4 years ago in Fiction
Purgatory
There weren’t always dragons in the valley. There weren’t supposed to be any, not in this valley or any other. Doctor Faulkes had stollen the Seven Seed-Egg stones from the Dead City on Travon II. Recovered them, he said. And Var-Don the Travon Queens-Pair had found him and the stones aboard the LORES Valkyrie, just before the Queens-Pair Cleave and the nymphs’ emergence from the stones. And Doctor Faulkes’ Purgatory, his penance for his theft was to nurture the nymphs as they morphed toward adulthood, into what would be called dragons by those who did not know.
By G Wade Carmichael 4 years ago in Fiction
the blues
The blues came to earth in huge ships. They sent videos out to major government officials, stating peace was their wish. For 6 months we all lived together peacefully, or that was what we all thought. But then one day, early in the morning, an army of blues went through the streets, starting in major cities working their way out towards the smaller towns, dragging all the adults out of their homes and threw them in what looked like police cars. They took the children to another location claiming the adults they took were involved in a secret project to kill or enslave their people.
By amber ingersoll 4 years ago in Fiction
Existence of dragons revealed!
There weren't always dragons in the valley. They used to reside in the mountains and oceans but as man's hunt for wealth, and profit brought them to ocean sides and mountain tops dragons slowly shifted from oceans and mountains to valleys. A handful of valleys nestled in between mountains so tall man hopefully could never find them. Unfortunately, man's greed was never ending and eventually they were found. The dragons we hear about in myth and lore of razing villages and terrorizing peasants are just that myths. In reality dragons tend to be pretty peaceful. They do hoard treasures and things, but their treasure hordes depend on the dragon's nature. I have met dragons that horde books (Layla) dragons that horde clocks (George) and even dragons that horde different flowers seeds (Arla of the Mecka line weirdly enough) . They horde what they are passionate about similar to humans. Some dragons can breathe fire but that is more of because of the sulfur and similar gases that ignite upon contact with oxygen when they expel them. Dragons were long living intelligent and benevolent in most cases. As with all species there are the outliers and exceptions. Arthur the Black for example enjoyed setting fire to villages and terrorizing peasants -he's actually the reason why you have most of those stories in history. And Belinda of the Opaline line loved to steal girls with fair skin and eyes and keep them like pets. But again, they are the exceptions. So, when man finally discovered dragons were in fact real and not mythical, and they finally quit trying to kill them they brokered a treaty of sorts. Included in the treaty was humans would cease attacks on dragons, hide and protect the fact that dragons were real- so only a select few within the government actually know about them- they in turn would not harm humans, would keep to the designated locations, and most importantly share their knowledge -as mentioned before dragons tended to hoard what they were passionate about and while dragons were few they had quite a long time to collect a few different hobbies in which they were passionate about. Many technological advances were made with the help of dragons in fact some people believe it was aliens but in reality, it was the dragons who gave us the leap forward. Dragons were kept within a handful of mountains valleys and protected facilities around the world. Partially because of the difficulty of moving them secretly and partially because of the fact that dragons believe in grave tending. Mountains like Mount Everest are actually burial grounds of dragons. Dragons being such long lived creatures continuously grow just at a slow pace, so the older the dragon the larger the dragon and when they passed on they tended to pass on after a very prolonged period of not moving which the accumulation of dirt and other things tended to form mountains which is why there are some mountains that have high calcium deposits within them and some have formed volcanoes (certain lines tend to have more firepower shall we say. ) And as I'm looking at this rambling mess of a page, I've written I realize why my supervisors hate my reports. I do in fact jump from one thought to the next with very little to bridge between them.... Maybe I should take that reporting course that Aaliyah was talking about. Let me start over.
By Amaryllis Blake4 years ago in Fiction
