Stories tagged “moon”
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All the world is a soap opera.
The world was here, and it was not. Sparks were flying, the Moon was crashing into things, the delicate dance set up by the Clock Maker was falling apart. But the Clock Maker was gone. After all, it was just a comission. A comfortable home for the Lady...
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Simple pleasures
The lamp was dented and dull, but undeniably filled with a genie. “I shall grant you three wishes.” Kenneth died moments later, crashing his space-yacht into his moonbase while being pleasured by the entire contents of the world’s lar...
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Myth 2: Electric Boogaloo
They remembered the moon. In those brief moments before the old gods most had forgotten stopped dreaming, when the moon fell and the ocean rose in anger, they remembered the moon. Not just that it existed, but what it meant. They remembered the times t...
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Tipping Point
The collision couldn’t have occurred with greater accuracy. Three hours before, a dead spy satellite was struck by a meteor. It was not destroyed but its tracked path shifted slightly. This event went undetected. The supply ship Kosma was heading...
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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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Celebrate the Light
Throw back Exult and cry triumphant Not cackling and dark As the shadow what howls at the moon Rejoice Let loose your shining self Bright and of life Screams the hero gladly at the sun
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Rescue Mission
McCragen wandered into the situation room. Already the vultures of the press were massing outside, waiting for some juicy morsels of information to blow out of proportion. There was a committee of fifteen people gathered around a large topographical ma...
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The Moon and Romeo
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the mischievous moon, Who has me soon sick and pale with want, That thou her maid art before me as sweet: Be not my meat, since I am ra...
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Mother Earth
Everything seems bright tonight, on this cold winter night. The small lights of the city hang like frozen fireflies in the mist, their stillness reflected in the absence of life across the waste ground. I glance up at my son, smiling down at me, his si...
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The Goodbye Protocol
Something within me has activated my Goodbye Protocol. Maybe it’s because I know that it’s over. There’s a woman here on the Moon. She may be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Cold solar wind blows so gently across me, I wonder if itR...
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Man On The Moon
“Control, this is Orbital Mission 003. Do you copy?” “We copy that Orbital, you are closing in on the landing site, correct?” “Copy that control, I don’t see the landing site beacons.” “There is no contac...
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20:17 UTC 20 July 1968
Dimitri looked across the plain. He was twenty kilometers southwest of Sabine D. According to the reports it would be just northeast of a 400 meter crater named West. The positioning satellites chirped their songs and told him that he was almost there....
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We Went There
“40th anniversary of the Moon landing today,” said Walter, glancing at the night sky. “Meh,” replied Tyler, as his thumbs pecked away at his phone’s tiny keypad. “What do you mean, meh?” said Walter, fighting t...
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Collection
I place the plaque into my satchel and followed my partner back onto the ship. I never got used to that feeling, holding something long forgotten. To behold something that belonged to a long dead society, one older than even the world I was born on. &#...
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The Day the Moon Disapeared
Twas a hard day; the day our moon was gone. The oceans became angry, and starting bashing the sea line. The Earth became confused, and stopped turning. The trees became sad, and started tumbling down. The air became lost, and wandered away. The sun bec...
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A Midnight Stroll
It was always midnight here. Like an old silent film, no colors and no sounds. Of course, it was still brighter here than on the Shadowside. The guys were always joking that if Jim didn’t behave, they’d make him do the maintenance there ins...
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The Blowing Snow
A cold winters wind wove through the trees and with it the first flakes of snow began to fall. The world around me began the fade as the approaching clouds blotted out the moon. I found myself backed into a tree, pushed by the darkness itself. I could ...
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Lun
Watchful opal Rheumy eye Against the blackened Star-streaked sky Leaking light In milky trails To grace the treetops Hills and vales Creaks and cracks On beaten face Haunted path With shuffling pace The ocean breathes To your slow dance A soft recessio...
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Give
give me a pencil and i’ll give you my poem give me a song and i’ll sing out to your soul but give me a moon, o a moon, sweet gray face from the heavens, and i’ll give you my heart and a kiss for your cheek and my laugh your compan...
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The Sky is a Battlefield
You shine, you shine Upon the earth Thank you for Your blissful worth. Thank you for Your swaying light Which sticks with us Until the night. To grace the sky Your foe awaits Until, until It does get late. The battle begins With both in view You’...
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The Sun, the Moon and the Stars
No matter how bright the Stars would shine, they could not pierce the impenetrable darkness on his heart… so what had made the Moon think she could do just that? Did she not only reflect what the stars could give? She had no light of her own to ...
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The Weather Woman
All ye viewers, with eager ears, attain! Hark but a moment, and hear my name For though a name is trivial and lame, Reputations precede, thus giving thou An inkling, a featherful white pillow On which to rest thine head, a comfort gained. Joan Key, fam...
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Myth II: Fading
The moon waited for the sea. Each day, as they waltzed, he always wanted more. But each year, they grew more detached. Each year, they became more distant. The moon soon became just another observer. He looked into the chaos of his lover’s childr...
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Myth III: Alone
But then the sun died. The sun grew immense in its senility, its dying throes burning the rocks that orbit near it. It swallowed the first two of its subjects, then directed its fiery gaze on the now abandoned Earth. The sea was not prepared. Nor was t...