Stories tagged “earth”
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The First Sunrise
The Sun rose behind the Earth. Mark, as the satellite called itself in its primitive brain, quickly took a picture of it and quietly sent it down to Earth. It then turned its camera to Earth and started its work. Mark was the first satellite with ̶...
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The Lonely Void
Finally, all his time spent tinkering would prove useful for once. Vitally useful. Bob smiled to himself as he straightened his safety harness and pushed the ignition in his souped-up, two-seater ZX7. He had been working on this little hobby rocketship...
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A Mother and Her Children
I always thought Mother Earth would end the same way she began: with a big bang. But now I realize, she will go out with dignity. Or with as much dignity as she can have while parasitic life forms suck her dry of everything she has. I am a blemish on m...
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A Decision I'd Rather Not Face
“Enigma, please give me the details of Earths current state” I say, still in awe. “Earths current condition is deemed uninhabitable. No traces of life are on record. Current temperature is 129 degrees Fahrenheit. Average PH of the oce...
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Myth
Sea and Moon were lovers once. They were one, moving through the nether, each completing the other, made for each other. Both knew they would be together forever, but it was not so. Moon and Sea soon found themselves near a new world neither of them ha...
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The Missing Component
There was a desert, barren, lifeless, and sterile, that covered all the land. The sea lapped gently on the rocky shore miles away, its tides being quite low in magnitude. The world was devoid of anything save the landforms and the waters. Sunset was oc...
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Another Revelation (part 1)
As I step back from a bittersweet environment filled with the various vices and virtues of humanity, I now realize all that the forces of evil tried to steal from me. If I had given in and erased myself completely from the face of the earth, I can’...
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Another Revelation (part 2)
Hence, I have come to accept the fact that in the end, each and every mortal being will have long since proven and exploited his or her own wickedness, whether intentionally or not. But even so, there will only be a few who thoroughly fail themselves. ...
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Chain of Order
Yesterday, Nina was taken to the port. She cried too much for my liking – it made me want to cry, too. She made us sweets and left them on the counter with a note blurred and softened by tears; it was just like her. She did it despite the beating...
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Falling Home
Reentry is a tricky thing at best. The Ph.D.s on the ground tell us that we’re always falling, in a manner of speaking. Way I look at it, orbiting the planet’s got nothing to do with the soul-shaking fall back into the atmosphere. Come in t...
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Sky is Over
In the burning red of a rising sun, the barren landscape looked like the surface of a dead planet. A man stood alone on a hilltop, watching the sun slowly pouring into the sky, filling it with light and fire. A reminiscence hit him, a picture of the s...
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Carbon Monoxide All Around!
“So now that we have discovered Earth and its glaborious wonderworkings, how shall we greet them, O Most Sugary Overlord?” Zamboblion hummed. “I would think a Celebratory Mercury Shower to be most appropriate.” “Computing,...
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Talking Burgers and Fat Losers
Meanwhile, far away, in the basement of his mother’s house, sat Carl McGlave, unwrapping his trillionth Big Mac from its wrapping, while playing Call of Duty 5 with his online “Friends”. “Hey, yumm, who knows yumm where the bloo...
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The Road Home
Believe me when I tell you, we come here by necessity and not by choice or design. This place is foreign to us. My own best diplomat took one look into the long blue void and had to be sedated. They call it sky sickness; it’s just unnatural to be in ...
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Raindrop
Awakening to a new and strange world, I fall briskly through the turbulent air. Freshly birthed from Mother Cloud, I descend with my brothers and sisters to the unknown lands below. The wind whips me from side to side as I continue towards my place of ...
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The Snow Invades Land
A calm evening turns into a violent slaughter. The snowflakes invade land. At first, the grass seems to be holding off these forces, but soon after, they begin to give up. Snow begins to take control of most of the land, and I am part of it. The bitter...
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Dr.Orbit - The Local Hero
I was tired of seeing the world black and white. I was tired of hearing all the pain in the world. I was just trying to live my life, alone in the out skirts of town. When they came crying back to me; “Help” is what I hear from the steps of...
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Ruins of Automatopia
Our needs were met by design; by total automation of production. Automatons mine, refine, make, and cultivate. We toiled only toward extinction. And automated are the means to replace expired producers, even now. Some models make automatons and some, b...
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Aloft
Three days from the sea lies the city of Gezze. Gezze has no roads, no alleys, no footpaths. The buildings are squeezed one beside the other, so close together that the sunlight does not reach the ground floors of the homes. The citizens, therefore, do...
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Remnants
Bob stared, his mouth gaping at the unnatural naturalness of it all. “But… but where did you come from?” The dust shimmered slightly, as though it were laughing. Isn’t it obvious? These particles, every atom of them, are all tha...
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Why?!?!
Earth looked at the solar system and gasped, something was hurtling towards him. “Oh Noes!!” he yelled, “Why me?! Why me?!” On Earth, millions stared upon hearing the news. A Meteor the size of a small moon was hurtling towards ...
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Paradise on Earth
Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale Thats what I keep telling myself. It just rained, and the smell of the wet ground is so soothing. I look around the forest I’m in and I exhale deeply. I.Am.At.Peace. I feel at home here. No worries. No drama. No bil...
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Oh Smeg (Meteor Challenge)
Three, two, one. We’ve arrived, said Holly, his face glum on the screen. Yeah, but arrived where asked Listor. The box labeled Holly Hop Drive let out noises like an ancient whoopee cushion releasing the last remnants of Babylonian air. That noise ju...
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Crashed into the Earth
Day One: I Stood in the middle of a large city watching thousands of people scream as a meteor flew from space at us. I thought there was no chance of survival. I was half right and wrong. I did… But no one else I knew of did. My home city –...
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Auspice
Translated from Voice Log 101513 However much time we spend watching this species, it seems they quadruple it in the effort of watching us. We have seen foreign objects circle around our craft, attaching and feeling like fingers. We feel disturbances r...