Stories tagged “bombs”

  • Bouldercreek Series - The Beginning Of The End

    “I never asked before – I never really thought I would have to ask so soon, but I must ask, is it the fear of death really the one thing that bounds us from living are lives.” said Rachel. “I never really had to ever think about...

  • Illumination

    Her hands shook, as she spooned grounds into the filter. Finally, she hardly noticed. Sleep came when you were truly exhausted, but you had to stay alert in between, somehow. She heard some people had to turned to things other than caffeine, things tha...

  • Inspired by xkcd.com/433

    I sit in the driveway, figuring the exact spot to place the mines. I know a lot about people, and would normally tell where someone would park with pinpoint accuracy, but he is unpredictable. He knows just as much as I do. He did show up in a Russian s...

  • Icarus: Mission Day 1459, Part II

    The slender six-hundred-meter long ship shuddered and protested as the heavier-set interloper approached and took the offensive. “How’d they come up to us so fast?” Herb asked, bracing himself. Klaxons raised hell about atmospheric co...

  • On Wings of Fire

    I felt the cockpit shudder as the sleek fighter broke the sound barrier. I never heard the sonic boom, as the rumble of the engines blocked out all noise. Below me is an open field, small specks of fire from muzzle flashes punctuated a seemingly peacef...

  • Under the Crust

    “So tell me what I need to know,” Bethony started. The technician, in his blue helmet and white lab jumpsuit, passed her a tablet. “We think we have a way to restart Mars’ magnetosphere. Do you remember how on Old Earth that the...

  • Waking Up

    The trees and grasslands that once adorned the landscape were now a utopian memory. Even the air was gone, replaced by a suffocating gas mixture that was so tenuous one must breathe through a respirator. The cities made of glass and concrete were grave...