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Science Fiction
5 stories | Updated July 22, 2023
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A New Home
By Nevena Pascaleva | The Fiction Writer’s Den
Read time: 6 minutes Genre: Science Fiction, Action and Adventure, Thriller and Suspense Type: A Flash Fiction Status: complete Rating: 8+ Tags: space travel, distant planets, loneliness, extinction of human race
“While all the rest were rushing for bunkers and underground hide-outs, Jack slipped into one of the experimental space shuttles and roared through the poisoned atmosphere.
This was pure madness, and he doubted that any of his other colleagues would do it, but what did he have to lose? A life underground? For how long?”
The Shade
By JP Fosterson | P.S. I Love You
• Read time: 22 min • Genre(s): Sci Fi, Literary • Type: Short Story • Status: Complete • Rating: 13+ • Tags: Space, aliens, weather
“He looked to the northwestern sky and tried to find the black void in the star field. Near it was the barest sliver of a new moon that anyone on earth had ever seen. There was no light pollution, the power grid had failed. There was no water vapor in the air, the snow had stopped. The sky was as clear as empty space itself. Not a whisper of wind; not a car on the highway; no birds; no animals; the pecan and oaks and mesquite encased in ice, the moon, the stars, the snow on the ground. He had never seen a world like this. He made a clumsy sign of the cross, though he didn’t know what words he was supposed to say when he did it. A week ago he had called himself an atheist. Now, the only choices he could see were to say a prayer and get back to work, or to sit down in the snow and die.”
Misplaced Self-Conscious
• Read time: 3 min • Genre(s): Science Fiction • Type: Serial Novel • Status: Ongoing • Rating: 13+ • Tags: Alien Abduction, Multiverse, Romance, Mystery, Aliens, Alternate Universe Half-woken recollection plagues a young man at odds with nightmare-infused reality. As his story unfolds, so does his sanity. Mysterious alien figures haunt his dreams and stifle his ability to remember…something… “The feeling seemed more vivid than the vision of the memory. I was somewhere I had been before, surrounded by creatures I knew, but didn’t recall. Sight through my half-open eyes tried to create the image of what I should see. I realized I was not alone.”
Survivor of the Psychic Wars
By Lark Morrigan | Morrigans Wake | Read for Free!
• Read time: 8 min.0 • Genre(s): Science Fiction, Science Fantasy • Type: Short story • Status: complete • Rating: 13+ • Tags: aliens, Blue Öyster Cult, mystical, future, cults, telepathy, science fiction
This is a short story about a telepathic veteran who meets an extraterrestrial cult. 28 Blue Öyster Cult song titles are woven into the story.
The Captain’s Dilemma
Read time: 25 minutes Genre(s): Pirates, Adventure Type: Serial Fiction Status: Ongoing Rating: 13+ Tags: Pirates, Age of Sail, Alien World, Worldbuilding Summary: The Continuing Adventures of a Pirate Captain Sailing the Skies of an Alien World.
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