The story you are about to read is entirely true, though you won't believe it. If I hadn't lived it I wouldn't believe it myself. I've changed a few names to protect some people whose privacy I respect. I've left out a few technical details to avoid going to jail for violating national security. Other than that, it's the straight scoop; as best I can remembe...
In the infinity of universes beyond our own, many closely resemble Earth's geography and history with sometimes subtle and sometimes drastic differences. The Marvel Universe is one such parallel, named after a series of comic books from the mid-Twentieth Century. It is so named because that universe's history almost exactly matched the fictional history of t...
"...5...4...3...2...1...impact!" The screens went white for a second, and then lines began spreading out from the center. A general cheer went up throughout the room. "Well, my friends, it is official: after all the bad magnets, alignment problems, and other Bullshit, we have collision," Dr. Legard said in French. "Here's to us, my f...
This is was not written to motivate or dishearten anyone, I wrote it to get what I am feeling off my chest. I have no writing experience. I am not American or British so excuse the errors. ------------- I've been spending every waking moment for the past few months trying to convince myself that I'm not a waste of space or as I have heard a oxygen thief....
Tenal Region -- 9-TYH Constellation -- CUY-8YB System " ... offered them cargo, we offered them gold, our bodies and servitude... They wanted nothing. They left nothing intact. Now we drift, dwindling in numbers as our metallic coffin grows colder. My only relief is that Eusethia is at peace, keeping an eye on what remains of Yoggoth... click.." The metall...
Part 1: https://www.literotica.com/s/welcome-to-the-commonwealth-ch-01 --- Desmond tied the brahmin's bridle to a makeshift post as the group made camp for the night. The, now four, mercenaries spent most of the day walking and they were getting tired. Jayce and Desmond began setting up the camp while Zoe and Zarah, the double Z's as Desmond cringe-fully j...
Chapter One The Moon - 3749 C.E. "So, remind me," requested the Interplanetary Union's Minister for External Affairs. "How have we managed to commit ourselves to the horrendous expense of this mission?" "Do you mean the Alpha Project, sir?" asked Permanent Secretary Alfredo Miskiewicz from his office at Mare Cognitum on the Moon. "Whatever it's called n...
LXVIIGive Unto OthersOdile2110 The remuneration for a day's work was meagre. It amounted to nothing more than the use of a second-hand blanket and a meal that was double the size of what Odile normally had to eat. That was all. But it was something. Edith was helping to boil a pot of stew on a stove, while Odile doled it out into wooden bowls that were gr...
2066Faith and CharityLindiweXVI It was the first time since Lindiwe was a child that she could remember ever being happy. Was this what she'd been looking for since she'd left Lesotho? In fact, so low had her measurement of luxury fallen that just to sleep on a mattress she didn't have to share and to survive without needing to sell her body were enough now...
I was writing the next chapter of I'll Always Take Care of You, and decided to quickly type up this short story. It's fun, and not nearly as complex and so was much easier to write. Enjoy it. It's a fictional story, meant to be fun. **** We were running out of petroleum in late 2024. Between the explosion in the number of automobiles throughout the world,...