September 4th 2156. Thirty years after the second coming of Christ. The great redeemer returned to reclaim his flock at the beginning of the twenty-second century. An ecological basket-case, many had already written off their chances of survival, if not salvation. The previously chilly snowscapes of Canada and Siberia were now the world’s most habitable dest...
Scripts from the Great Library in Nycene: From 'Professions', a list of official jobs compiled by the State Mages of Nycene, "Treasure Hunter": a treasure hunter is a man or woman, usually a mage, who travels great distances in search of rare and sometime powerful artifacts left behind from the Magic Wars. Some treasure hunters seek objects of historical...
I saw him every time I rented movies. His name was Ray, although I couldn't be sure. He was almost endearing in his faded button down shirts his mother had bought him last Christmas, and his black shaggy hair, evidence that he was too poor to afford a regular hair cut let alone shoes that were in style. My entrance into the store always brought the same gre...
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 so please feel free to leave me a comment in the comment box at the end of the story! You see those big empty stars down there as well? Did you want to maybe fill them up? We don't want them e...
This is a continuation of Jillian's Jugs. I watched Jillian's car leave the bar parking lot. My mind was a little numb after my encounter a little bit ago. I had this refreshing wave flow over me, almost like a deep-sea diver breathing real air for the first time in five hours. Here I am standing naked as a jay bird in the place where I work, and I don't c...
They called themselves The Q'Old and they named their star Kron and they called their home planet Dunzar, which orbited a yellow dwarf star similar to Sol. It was located two hundred seventy eight light years counter spin, according to galactic rotation and thirty-four light years closer to the galactic core and forty-two above. Their planet was the fourth o...
You wake up in your bunk on your ship feeling particularly groggy. You walk over to your closet pulling out some clothes deciding against wearing the armor laying in pieces on your closet floor and leaving your blasters back in their weapons locker. You still have a splitting headache and audibly groan as you head toward the bathroom. You walk down the cold...
Her eyes were twin, corposantic quasars in the dank room's inner night. Long had learned to move carefully towards such energy, and through such accretion of waste, the dangerous befoulment of this his perfect find. But tonight was different. No caution, no need. He was not expecting to live through this encounter. Long lit a match and then a smoke, exhaled...
The galaxy is a deep and boundless black to you, quite the night sky, speckled white by the distant light of thousands of star systems you haven't yet visited... After leaving lightspeed you marvel for a moment at what the blue tunnel of hyperspace has transformed into again, and end your reverie when your sensor board begins to paint up a picture of the sys...
Velvet Star is a young 21 year old college student of Chyoa University, who's now staying with her family over the summer break. Her family consist of her 45 year old mother Jessica, her 27 year old sister Victoria, her 18 year old brother Ash, and her 35 year old Aunt Hilda will her boyfriend Keith. Her father had passed away due to illness six years ago an...