Finally, it was the big day. Earth Day. The float made its way down Main Street, where thousands of people lined the sidewalks to take in the annual parade. Clowns, floats of all descriptions, flatbed trailers with environmentally conscious products aboard -- all were taking part. In the Friends of the River float, Joe and Rebecca were in her Earth-friendly...
It's tough being a God, ladies and gentlemen. People think it's all power and glory but they forget about the one thing which drives everything among intelligent beings. The pernicious and inescapable fabric of politics. That's why I left Home, and came to the planet Earth. I have built a new life for myself in the City of Toronto, province of Ontario. I'm J...
Drake looked around in surprise. The stores looked very different from the classic stores back on Earth. There was very little glass except to decorate the elaborate carvings and notched in the stone walls. The whole place looked like it had been grown, not built. "The dragons created this place." Drake turned to Ben, who had seen the look of wonder on the...
Duncan Cyrus, age 23, Back Home So, I moved back home to my parents' house. That was short lived because I needed my own place. I had saved up for such an occasion. Within a month I was in a new apartment and my pops had set up a job interview for me with an associate at a fauna and flora laboratory just outside the city limits. Basically what I do there i...
A light. It was brief, brilliant green that streaked from east to west before fading into the purple twilight. The stars were bleeding through the layers of dusk, the sun dipping behind a range of barren rocks that made up the foothills of the Sierra Madras. The light was followed by another, the same neon green. Then another. One of many iron meteorite...
It was the barking dog that woke her, but the morning song of the lark hovering high above soon soothed her as she drifted in the light wispy dawn of sleep. Beth lay in the pleasant dreamy fog while the autumn morning brightened, sunrise silhouetting the charcoal trunks and twigs of the old twisted willow trees by the creek. The rising sun creamed dawn’s s...
Prologue. It was a long and arduous trip from the man made beaches of New California to the dusty slopes of Headwood. Iron had been found however in those slopes and the desert beyond held uranium. Under their rocky windswept surface lay the future of the human race. Nothing said progress on Titan, 3rd moon of Saturn like iron ore however. And nothing said...
Larissa squinted against gritty, blowing rain. In every direction of the naked mountaintop where she stood, sandstone boulders loomed out of the slanting downpour, some as small as doghouses and others bigger than barns. A billion years of winds had scoured the rock, sculpting it into organic shapes: breasts and heroic torsos and immense phallic columns; ero...
Planet Luntanu, Alpha Squad Campsite, 0810 Hours: Alpha Squad was dismantling the campsite, disposing of their trash and packing up the shelters and equipment for their storage back on the shuttle. Giles hefted one of the heating units, grunting as he quipped, "I think we're taking back more than we brought with us." "That is very true, Friend Giles," Kit...
Earth Spectre Base, Canadian Rockies August 13, 2019 6:03 PDT (09:03 EDT) As soon as I said begin, my mirror image began sending me seemingly random messages. I closed my eyes and imagined a crystalline shield forming around my mind, completely sealing it off. I was shocked that it actually worked. I was fully expecting to spend a while trying to form a...