Loading ...April 11th, 2009 at 4:57 am (Science Fiction)
Grabbing the cell phone was a last second decision. He almost walked out the door without it. He had his wallet, shoes, jacket, keys. Just a quick run to the store to pick up some condiments they needed.
He never made it home for dinner.
(1 votes) Loading ...August 24th, 2007 at 9:45 am (Science Fiction)
I will not die…I will not die…I WILL NOT DIE..! The words, which would have been screamed if he had the air or the time, echoed in his head as the plasma burst surged through the ship’s bridge — an instant, blinding, killing flare that left utter darkness in its blazing wake.
It was up from this darkness he swam some unknown time later, eyes miraculously opening, body aching with a thousand agonies, but moving, not seared to atomic dust as he should have been had the plasma struck.
Loading ...April 1st, 2007 at 2:22 pm (Science Fiction)
Dilbert has a problem.
But it’s one he doesn’t know he has.
Dilbert doesn’t care about science-fiction.
(1 votes) Loading ...September 21st, 2006 at 12:17 am (Science Fiction)
He was a spark of consciousness in the machine, a glimmering pinpoint of brilliant light wrapped in tubes of dark, cold emptiness and lifeless metal. But he was an important spark. He was the heart of the mechanical beast drifting through the black universe.