Archive for Science Fiction
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RHODODAKTYLOS NYX • by Brandon Nolta
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Behold the rose, glowing scarlet in the daylight of a shattered sky. It sits, perched delicately on the edge of a crumbled pit, in defiance of weather and acrid air. Nothing moves the rose but wind, nearly all other life here long since ground to dust. No companion besides entropy to follow it into darkness, [...]
Science Fiction, Stories
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BIRTH STORY • by Joyce Chng 10 Comments
Her voice woke me up from a blanket-soft darkness. I had to swim up through the different layers, like oil, like water, flowing together with the eddies. Fixing my attention to her voice, the light guiding me. I moved, drawn to it. “Tell me your story.” Her voice was gentle, like a stroking hand. I [...]
Science Fiction, Stories
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DEEPSLEEP • by Christopher Owen 25 Comments
Chen came out of deepsleep with Mari’s face hovering over him. She leaned over his pod, her eyes bright and wide, her golden hair disheveled, her lips dry and cracked. She hadn’t been awake long herself. “Are we there?” Chen asked, his voice rumbling with phlegm, his eyes still bleary. “Not exactly, Chen.” “How not [...]
Science Fiction, Stories
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STONE IN THE SKY AND BREAD BELOW • by Milo James Fowler 20 Comments
Peter and Geoffrey led the way, running as fast as their skinny legs could carry them down the hillside, locks flying back from their tanned brows. “We will miss them!” Peter called back to Lawrence who brought up the rear, as usual. “Hurry!” “Are you not hungry?” Geoffrey was the fastest, and he could have [...]
Science Fiction, Stories
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THE HABANERO GAMBIT • by Andrew Waters 9 Comments
Captain Lucius B. Firefox, known affectionately as “The Fox” or “Foxy” by rogues throughout the galaxy, lifted a black calfskin Startrooper boot onto the seat of his captain’s chair and rested a hand on his muscular thigh, fully exposed through the sheer fabric of his flamboyant space pirate uniform. Through the main viewscreen on the [...]
Humour/Satire, Science Fiction, Stories
