Sci Fi
Maria was a Nurse
Maria was a nurse in an ancient hospital situated in the middle of Phoenix, one of the 400 small nation-states that made up the geo-political world. Nurses in the 20th century would easily recognize Maria’s work: fluorescent lights, blue scrubs, lemon-scented floor cleaner. Even the treatments and medicines were similar. As if medical science had taken a break for two centuries while the world heaved and shifted with wars, famines and great migrations of people.
By Justin Streight5 years ago in Fiction
Elocution Day
Faith died and I gave up. A coconut fell on her head in Hawaii when we were on vacation and Faith died and I gave up. I gave up because it had taken me so long to give in to love and Faith and then she died and it felt like God no longer existed so I gave up.
By Augustus Britton5 years ago in Fiction
Eyes of R-GyS
R-GyS watched from all angles through wide lenses and static grain. The vast warehouse was starkly lit by the buzzing fluorescents above. The shadows were sharp, stained yellow like aging wallpaper. It was late, and the isles were practically vacant save for a few sparsely scattered wanderers. Humans were typically more skittish at night, moving in small herds of three to four. Some pushed carts full of goods. Another struggled to carry just as much in his arms alone. R-GyS watched small boxes appear around each face. He measured their features in proportion to one another, and each summoned an associated file.
By Tayla Mallow-Spears5 years ago in Fiction
Tomorrow Unseen
She pushes her face out of the moist dirt, her bright green eyes piercing thru the pools that turn into streams cutting swathes thru the mud on her face. Her dark auburn hair hangs down over her face, concealing the tears but not the blood at the corner of her mouth. She pushes herself up on a knee as she looks across at the bare and rather wide back of a man with his arms raised in triumph to a crowd of onlookers, some who cheer his name "DAX! DAX!" Others urge and plead for her to stand. As he celebrates he notices her on a knee with one fist and one boot on the ground and turns to face her. She wipes the tears on her face with the inside of the elbow of her tattered and dirty denim jacket, smearing the dirt.
By Shawn E. Raker5 years ago in Fiction
GHSL Incident
[AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT, COUNCILMAN VARGAS – DR. GLASS] [TIMESTAMP 9th Moon, Sol 249, 1651, 0832] Vargas. Dr. Glass, having watched your neuro-cam footage of the GHSL Incident, I understand that you have a new weapon against the Axeris-Flodai threat. I need clarification. If you would please, start from your arrival in Darija, and allow me pauses that I may interject. And, for my sake will you please spell out the acronyms you may use as or before they are spoken?
By Joshua Mills5 years ago in Fiction
Utopia Redux
Billy Day sat on the toilet, facing a small 10 x 10 mirror, staring at his reflection. His light brown hair was scruffy and dirty. His eyes were a bright green, and were currently gazing into themselves. Billy, a young man of 17, was worried about his mother. She had been gone for too long. He was beginning to think the worst.
By Colt Henderson5 years ago in Fiction
Alone in the Heart Land
As far the eye could see there was nothing but flat, scorched land. Land that had finally started to give into the sun. It was a good time to stop and recharge, but there was nowhere to hide from potential opportunists. There used to be a strip mall ten miles down the road but that has been scoured and turned over by so many looking for anything of value. If I go another twenty there is a Big Truckstop, but that’s pretty much the same.
By Conner Williams5 years ago in Fiction
