“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 …
Tag: science fiction
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 …
Window Screens
“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon She had never been allowed to leave the house. Her parents did everything for her. They bought groceries and picked up her prescriptions. They home schooled her and even let her friends come over, but she could never visit them. They even …
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 …
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