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1994
Eleven Years since Black Christmas
Emrys Arthur Calhoun was eleven years old when he tore the arm off of Jeffrey Miller.
He didn't mean to do it. Jeffrey had been playing football with his friends, and he'd been running past the old oak tree Emrys was reading My Side of the Mountain...
Isabella Martinez wasn’t anyone special. She worked night shifts as a research assistant for the North American Astronomical Survey, stationed at their newly commissioned deep space observatory tucked into the desert hills of northern Arizona. It was an isolated, dust-choked facility with more...
Threadmarks: Chapter 1: The Arrival: Fractured Realities
The dull hum of the engine vibrated through the old sedan as Red drummed his fingers on the steering wheel. His phone screen lit up in the passenger seat, displaying another message from Jake. "Yo, Red, are you coming or what? We're wasted, man. Touka is here; don't you want to see her?"
Red...
I couldn't move, my body felt numb and I wasn't sure if it could even physically move anymore. I remembered very clearly what had happened.
As I was reading a novel on my way home from school, I heard screams.
I was jolted to attention and tried to find the reason behind the screams, and I saw...
Silence. That was the worst part of it. Alone in a sea of stained sand she sat, clutching a symbol of Yara, the newly acknowledged God of Life. With her eyes closed tight as she murmured a prayer for those she was too late to save.
"Bringer of Life, Daughter of the Blackened Heart, take care...
"Meat is meat, right?" She grumbled across the campfire, gleaming blue eyes fixated on the slowly rotating hunk of meat.
"No. There's a big difference between a slab Stomper steak and, like… Scarab meat." The giant man responded, cranking the spit to ensure even cooking. "It's a miracle you...
First of the Forty-four tenets: Reality isn’t Real
Yes. I know. That doesn’t make any sense. Bla Bla Bla. Well did you know that the universe is nothing but a waking dream of The God of literal Gods?
No? Well yes. It is. Imagine, everything and everyone that you will ever come to know of and...
With the Human race on the brink of extinction, ten interstellar ships are built. Their mission is the continuation of the species on another world. Of the ten ships, only seven will launch before Armageddon, and of those seven, only one will truly achieve its mission. Each ship has it's own...
This thread is for ideas for my take on answering the writing prompt from this other thread I started. Two worlds, one science-fantasy hosting magitech and the other a less fantastical science-fiction future colony of Earth, come into first contact over FTL/interdimensional comms entirely by...