sci-fi

The one thing pilots always did when traveling through the danger zone was narrate the environmental changes to all passengers. It typically prevented panic rather than not knowing what was happening at all – even if everything was going smoothly. But, today, there was nothing more than a little hum from the speakers. Everyone ceased…

Senna felt her grandmother’s small, skinny hands slip away from hers as the starship ascended. Her feet were locked to the floor, body frozen in place as she watched her grandmother’s figure become a silhouette through the low clouds, then a speck, and then nothing. Everything that happened, happened all too fast. While everyone on…

Unlike most of the contemporary researchers, scientists, engineers, and the like in her working days, Kendra Aozra fully believed that this day would arrive. When, she would correct them, not if. The signs were all there – every observation of the sky above, every report received from every corner of the Earth. Dr. Simian Holo…

An elderly woman reached for the cellar handle. She bent, gripping the dusty, rusty metal bar with two seemingly frail hands and pulled. For an 80-year-old grandmother, she was stronger than one would have guessed. The heavy wooden door flipped open, unleashing a spray of dust. “Follow me.” She waved for the young woman standing…