“The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon”― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lindsey had always wanted to be a star. As an adult, she looked back on that childhood dream fondly, but …
Tag: Sci fi
Strange Power
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”― John Milton, Paradise Lost Peter was born with a strange power. He could bend reality to his will. Anything that existed, he could take it out of existence with a thought, and anything he could imagine, he could …
Time Out of Order
“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck …
Prompt: Moving to Mars
“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world."― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle In a few hundred years humanity will have no choice but to die or relocate. Choosing the …
Prompt: Exploring Portals
“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.”― Stanisław Lem, Solaris She had been a part of the program for about a year now. When she first joined, they said …
Intelligence
Two philosophy majors liked to argue about the meaning of things, but they're not to sure what to make of the alien they run over....
Cleek
Write a dialogue between aliens learning english
Space Madness
They new the risk of spending their lives in space, but none of them expected what really happened....
Unchanged
They were ready for spring but not for what happened next....
Major Tom
In a last ditch effort to save humanity, the space task force finds the perfect planet, or so they think....
LAMP 