Alpha Centauri
A warm solar wind blows steadily against the topsails of my Lady Luna. Once the fastest schooner in the whole fleet of ‘em, she presently drifts wounded yet…
Ride to Nowhere
Setting: a spaceship without a destination. Go forth and write!
Challengers
10 entriesBallet
A million stars- at least, for I have stopped counting- have wrapped themselves around us. The machinery doesn’t work and I don’t know where we are now. Where…
Escape
It’s been three days and the pain still sears as strongly through my memories as it did the minute after it happened. Iris was destroyed. Our home planet. As…
If Adventure Calls, Let it Go to Voicemail
Amber liquor over cold stones chipped away from a distant planet. Brought from earth back into space. He sipped impatiently, determined to enjoy it but…
Jumpsuit 101
I look in the mirror to see myself clad in an orange jumpsuit, the number ‘101’ is embedded into the chest, and by now, probably my mind too. The clattering of…
Bextris and The Captain
“On a ride... To nowheeeeeeeeerrrre-” “Cut that out, Bex! You sing that stupid line one more time and I’ll happily toss you out the hatch!” “Just trying to…
Traveling in Circles
It’s so quiet. No one roams the halls or chatters over the intercom. No one practices in the training rooms. Even the command center is silent. Or almost…
The Joyride
“We are gonna get so grounded!” “Not if you don’t tell,” Xie said pointedly. Ker looked at her little brother, sitting on a copy of the ship’s user manual so…
A Ship and Her Man (Day 66)
“Van, reinstall my language chip!” “I don’t think that’s a good idea, Marcie. I took it out because you wouldn’t stop singing the filthiest limericks.” “How…
Where To?
“Where to son?” A weathered old man takes my inside seat next to the window, he sits slowly and adjusts his blue plaid shirt tucked neatly into his weathered…