Space Fiction
Dark Knight
“Where is it?“ Lightning illuminated his face. Harsh light revealed first wrinkles and greasy hair. Wind blew the window open and knocked his trophy from the sill. He picked it up, cleaned a bit of dust from it, and placed…
Escape
She sped up. Water splashed under her heavy boots. Rain and sweat damaged her makeup and now her cheeks glittered in green and black. She pulled the strings off the hood to conceal her skin. They were gaining on her.…
Misfire
Electric guitar solo echoed through lower decks of the ship, losing more and more notes until it turned into high pitch screeching. ‘Shouldn’t he be listening to something smoother by now?’ ‘Never ask him that,’ the Chief Engineer said to…
Is there anybody out there?
Irish SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) HQ Today 9:07 Kate clocks-in a bit late. Her supervisor will notice. As if those few minutes make any difference. If there is an intelligent life out there, obviously they wouldn’t transmit the message…
The perfect sound
‘How does it sound?’ ‘I don’t know, Trish.’ ‘I’m telling you, the plan is perfect. They will never suspect it.’ Tim wasn’t convinced. She always had crazy ideas and at least once a month came up with a scheme to…
Five a day
‘They never knock.’ ‘They are the masters after all.’ ‘It doesn’t excuse the lack of manners,’ said Carrot. ‘Opening and closing the fridge any time they feel like it. I hate this hot draft.’ She went on and on about…
Missing
He was missing her more than his front teeth. ‘She couldn’t just disappear,’ he was swearing under his breath as he checked every room. There was the usual mess, and plenty of it, but as far as he could tell…
New planet, new me.
‘New planet, new me,’ she said to herself and unsealed a hatch. Gamma-2564 was going to be great; the best place to keep New Years resolutions: no oxygen atmosphere to have a fag, and in low gravity she was few…
358 Delta
There was nothing erotic about space travel in the 22nd century. They connected you to so many tubes and cables, that you felt like in a mother’s womb, maybe not as safe but cramped and overprotected. No chance for an…
Snow story
‘I miss Earth,’ I break the silence. ‘We’re off to a better place,’ he says without looking up from his screen. ‘I know, I know, but what if you could go back?’ ‘I’d die of radiation poisoning.’ ‘Well, not now.…
