You are a space marine like Aliens, Doom and Starship Troopers. The year was 2147. Mars had long been colonised at this point. The Union Space Exploitation Corporation (USEC) had built a base there to conduct scientific experiments with warp speed. While space travel between nearby planets like Earth and Mars could be done quickly enough, further away plane...
"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one" ― Bruce Lee * By 9:45 am Saturday morning, Agent McDonald and Agent Smith had left one of the Agency's satellite offices located behind a dry-cleaning laundry in the center of the downtown section of the busy Metropolitan City. Both agreed on a drink. Problem was, Agent Smith w...
The word "existence" is used in place of "life" because so far no one has been able to define what exactly life is. That has puzzled many, including Erwin Schrodinger, a Nobel winning physicist who wrote a book titled: "What Is Life". What's more, most of this existence is mostly unknown to most of us. For instance, while we sleep, we may toss and turn ever...
It was three in the morning and I couldn't take it any more. It was bad enough that the class's two professor chaperones were having sex almost every night but to hear the only other guy in the group having sex with his girlfriend in the room next to mine was too much to handle. I couldn't sleep and we had a 3.5 km trail hike in the morning. I was pissed. I...
Chapter 2 - A Lovers' Quarrel After a couple more hours of studying, Dave ventured into his bedroom, finding Maddie sitting cross-legged on the bed. To his surprise, she had found the TV remote and had already figured out how to use it. She seemed enraptured, almost hypnotized by the images on the screen, which did not surprise Dave one bit, considering it...
You stand on a street-corner in your home town. The sky is overcast and there's a rumble of thunder in the distance that reverberates off the buildings. You reach in your pocket and pull out enough cash to cover the cost of lunch, shove it into the hands of the street vendor, and begin to make your way back to the office. You would hate to be caught in yet a...
Author's note: Dreamers Come Play is an alternate universe. Stories set in it may incorporate touches of magical realism, blurred dreams, and other unexplained phenomenon. All events depicted are by characters of legal age. The prep school is a one year program run by the college for students between high school and university. All students in it are of...
There were a few raised eyebrows among the cleaners on Tuesday evening when I turned up for work. Instead of my usual jeans and baggy jumper, I was wearing a short pleated black skirt and tighter fitting white top and short denim jacket. "Bloody hell. You'll catch your death dressed like that, girl!" Marjorie exclaimed, looking at my bare legs before headin...
Chapter 5: Jasiri The men were still angry at Jasiri for the stunt he'd just pulled off, although their anger was abated somewhat by the news of his discovery. Lawrence cheered and patted him on the back. "That was awesome!" Lawrence told him. Jasiri smiled. Although his smile was tinged with worry. "The demons look alert! Some of them are climbing the...
Disclaimer: All right, this story is not real. NOT REAL! Not to be read by anyone under the age of 18/21 yadda yadda yadda! I'd love to hear some feedback as per usual. please feel free to leave me a comment in the COMMENT Box at the end of the page. You see those big empty stars too? Maybe bump those up to five full ones? We wouldn't want them to be empty n...