Stories tagged “helium”

  • Preparation

    Okay, here we go. Whoa, I’m scared. What the hell am I scared of? This is what I want, right? Anyway, it’s just practice yet. Checking flow. OK. Reclining position. The steps over again: forced exhale, pull down, quick inhale. Seems to go j...

    • Author: Lancet
    • Posted over 2 years ago.

  • Post Apocalypse: Helium

    What happened? Where is the coast line? Father just took a picture, that was the flash, wasn’t it? Just taking more photos of Sophie and I? I crawl to where Sophie was, and our sandcastle, only to be made aware of the thermal burns covering my b...

    • Author: Kihd
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Post Apocalypse: First of the Seconds

    So I am hyrdogen, First of the Seconds. Such mass destruction, such intense silence. Raya would laugh at that. She was always telling me not to slam the door on my way out. I stood as tall as I could in the tiny cave I had been blown into. The minute p...

    • Author: Kihd
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Eye of the Needle

    Yeoman West sat pondering her fake SilkMilk anime tattoo; a white spider sitting on a milkmaid’s stool on a maple leaf background. During Earth’s 21st century, Nexia scientists successfully genetically modified silk-spinning genes into goat...