Sci Fi

The Mistakes He Made
Watching the wind rustle the hair of the dead is often unsettling. I walked by a killed raccoon just the other day, and the breeze slithered through the animal’s fur. It looked as if it was taking a shallow breath. I wondered why the image disturbed me, and I thought, Maybe because we know dead things are not supposed to move. It is almost like the wind is playing a cruel joke, tricking me into thinking that life still courses through those veins. Or perhaps I misjudge the wind. Maybe it is desperately trying to revive the dead. Give it up, then, what is dead will not come back no matter how hard you will it. Poor wind, I would guess that it gets lonely. Its’ air is the substance upon which we live, what failure it must feel when it can no longer fill our lungs.
By Samantha Crites5 years ago in Fiction
The Chain
“Do you think there was more, before?” The chug of the factory floor is a steady thrum in the background. “Before what?”
By Amber Murray5 years ago in Fiction
My Last Days
ENTRY #1 If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance I’m dead, or maybe just gone. I wish I could tell you what I mean by “gone”, but I have no idea what happens to the ones who disappear. I found this empty notebook at the last house I visited, so I’ve decided to start keeping a log, or a diary of sorts, in the hope that if someone finds it, they’ll have an idea what’s happened. Not that I even know what happened, but I’ll do my best to explain.
By Kevin McMechan5 years ago in Fiction
The Baby Bureau
Dea and Mort headed over to the Baby Bureau. They’d just finished their bio tests, plus they’d had their application installed in their frontal lobes to monitor their mental suitability for Bonding Officer training. Now for the final hurdle. Interview time!
By SARAH STEWART5 years ago in Fiction
Trituration
Trituration Sometimes it's the first moment of the day that catches you off guard. I opened my window to see fire engines and police cars burn rubber as they rushed down the street. While this wasn't something completely unheard of, since the city had a large crime rate, it also wasn't completely normal. I could feel it in my bones that it was a sure sign something unusual would happen and it was the way I wanted the day to begin.
By K8W5 years ago in Fiction
Vision of Angels
A storm rolls in and rages in a purple-pink hue. Thunder crashes on the ground and trembles the nearby houses into a panic. As the clouds get closer to the ground, I think that this will be it my first tornado, too bad it's going to be on my house. As the swirling vortex of an ashen nimbus get closer to my door, it makes contact with the placemat in front of my door to clear up and reveal a blue eyed, blond hair, chubby baby. I blink once, then twice, then open the door to see the baby extend their arms towards me. I grab its' chunky arms and feel the cool touch of skin. As it starts clinging to my calves, I push it aside and cling closer to my doorway. I don't trust it. I see the baby look in surprise at my haste to run from it. Then with an unbothered look, he turns and wobbles away. As my vision enlarges, I notice that every house is going through the same wonderment that is encountering me. There is an exodus of hundreds of these ethereal babies, in all the shades of the world, with different fabrics of color representing the cultures of the world. They seem to be heading over a small hill in the distance. As I watch in awe, I begin to fear if this is a test. My vision that I had last week came true and I took it lightly. Was I suppose to keep him? He seemed happy to stay but also was indifferent after I rejected him to stay.
By JIN5 years ago in Fiction
The World That No Longer Glitters
The last ship went out last night. The world is quiet in the pre-dawn hours, and I long for just a few more moments to steep in dreams while I lay in the cot I’ve been provided.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Fiction
The Quantum Foam Makes Me Roam
The heart-shaped locket dangled lazily from his left hand, sunlight glinting off it’s smooth surface as it twisted back and forth. Where am I? Who am I? Questions flew through his mind as he focused on the spinning locket. Slowly, he began to be aware of his surroundings. Feet, planted firmly on the ground. Describe your environment, he admonished himself. You know the drill. One question at a time. Where Am I? I am in a room. The room has cheap linoleum flooring. The walls are baby-shit green. I’m seated in a high-backed wooden chair. A name floated through his mind...Jackson. He understood without knowing that this was his name. And then, everything hit him all at once. Fuck. How many jumps had this been? What was the date? That was the most critical piece of information he needed as he tore the room apart looking for something, anything that would answer this. Had the math been right this time? Was his goal finally accomplished? Could he rest? The date on the newspaper he finally found told him that at least he had gotten the date right this time. Tennyson had said it best, “...once more into the breach, dear friends.”
By Jack Richey5 years ago in Fiction
Ada's Last Day
There was a strange vibe in the building that morning when she walked in. Threading her way through the symmetrical cubicles, she noticed a tension in the air as she headed towards the elevator.
By Angel Whelan5 years ago in Fiction
Five Minutes
The patter of rain on my window was my alarm this morning, however that had not woken me up. It was the soreness instead that paraded through my body and my head. My eyes fluttered open to peer between the blinds that lay askew looking toward a false paradise against a sullen backdrop. The world boomed centuries after the sun screamed, I remember being told about the bodies our cities were built upon. I squeezed my hand tighter constricting my entirety into my sheets. The bite of silver leaving an impression on my hand as I pulled the chain from my palm. “Five minutes…” my throat felt rough and bare as I uttered those words.
By Kay.M.Raven5 years ago in Fiction
A Terrible Time For New Beginnings
If anyone alive had been around to observe the passage of time, you would learn it was exactly midnight on a Monday in the year 4783 A.D. when a former U.S.A cloning faculty’s main generator failed, and the clones in it began waking up early. Any dieter could tell you Monday is a terrible day of new beginnings, not to mention midnight, an hour of unwarranted things, but humans had long vacated earth some 120 plus years ago, so no one was around to explain all this to the struggling clones. One clone in particular could have benefited from this news. New to life, this clone sucked in the air she instinctively craved only to find herself drowning on the amniotic fluid she was suspended in. Panicked she pressed her hands on the glass she could not see out of and then beat on it when it did not give way to her touch. She was dying; although she did not understand the concept of death, she possessed an innate understand of the discomfort it brought on. She loathed the feeling and writhed to rid herself of it.
By E. J. Strange5 years ago in Fiction
Squidopia
Hank stared up towards the hazy edge of the water’s surface, soon he would join his fellow squibs on The Dry. Not much of the world had dry places like this. For the world had always been full of water with these strange islands in remote places.
By John Stone5 years ago in Fiction