When you live alone way out in the woods, a knock at the door at eight p.m. is unusual and cause for a wary glance. Rapid pounding and screams for help? I nearly shat myself. Leaping from my couch, my book dropped, forgotten, I was guided purely by instinct. I grabbed my handgun from its […]

Humanity had reached for the stars for as long as we’d seen them there. Glorified them in myth and legend, painting creatures in the sky in their image, creating gods that encompassed the unfathomable vastness of the universe. We ventured out slowly, as a kitten does as it takes its first steps out of doors, […]

A fun writing prompt about a mimic that’s trying to help you by turning itself into various items it thinks will be of use to you. [Source | Via MC]

Galactic Year 30.09.2948.3 It is recorded that humanity first detected the possibility of alien life nearly five centuries ago. Even back then, our only option was to send messages to these mysterious beings in the hopes of building relations. Everything from attempts at binary to sending atomic shapes like the hydrogen atom. The thing was, […]

Before humanity, there were only 3 sacred laws of war throughout the galaxy. No nuclear weapons, no chemical weapons, and no biological weapons. Everything else was on the table until that fateful day when the Klaarathi invaded a small human mining colony to gain control of a delithrium deposit. Even on a galactic scale delithrium […]

I had a lot of questions for James. Questions like “When did you even find the time for this?” or “How did you afford thirty packages of hamburger?” or perhaps most pressingly, “What did you bribe the biology lab with to get away with it?” … Lots of questions. Honestly, I had more of a […]

There are two ways to go faster than light. The first is to have less mass than a photon. I’ve yet to hear about a diet that manages this, but I think that’s just the modeling industry being secretive. The other method involves a cardboard box, an aluminum foil space helmet, and the words “Please, […]

It started with one shuttle. The craft was old, scarred from countless flights through superheated atmosphere, and its crew wore a mismatched collection of patched-together flight suits. They landed on the diveball field a mile from my house, looked around in utter confusion for maybe ten spans, then left. A few rotations later, another shuttle […]

Editor’s note: This one is really funny, geeks, and the videos that go along with it makes the story even better! —– Humans made it to the wider galaxy, finally. The Milky Way was congested with myriad species. Humanity struggled to carve out a niche for themselves. Coming below the technological curve didn’t make things […]