Destroyers of Inhumanity – Short Story

Mars is quiet and empty. It’s my home now, away from the Earth that I once knew. It’s a screwed-up universe and we’re all just part of it. All I want to do is dance on its grave but the arrival of the Scorpions prevented that.

The sky became dark on the 9th day of the third World War, when earth was embroiled in its own nuclear downfall. They came by the thousands in their massive flagships, somewhere from the abyss of deep space. But they were unlike anything humanity had ever seen. They came down from the sky in huge meteor-sized rocks, long and narrow. I was a general in the US-Canadian-UK alliance, under the leadership of Commander Brisbane. We were eating our daily rations of insect-slob in the DFAC when the news came in. Hundreds of large rocks, didn’t fall but descended from the sky, undetected by space force defenses Read More

Artifact from Another Universe – Short Story

Status alert: IVR-2 has been found on planet 12-Suicury g. Subatomic string scans and history logs provide the following timeline.

High orbit scans suggest the planet was nonvolatile and non-hostile at the time the bot’s capsule crash landed in a valley on the planet’s surface. Local biological scans revealed that the local fauna discovered the crash site and probed the capsule until they unlocked the cryo-sealed exhaust hatch. A primitive bioluminescent species, the natives managed to access the internal cockpit and drag out the bipedal bot. The natives, themselves bipedal in nature, used their primitive tools and webbed appendages to drag the bot from its capsule and back to their cave hovels Read More

Rocket Boy – Short Story

A tiny spaceship landed on a rocky crag. A small astronaut leapt from the red-stripped rocket, colliding with the blue dirt of Terrafin-7. The boy looked around. He built a fire from stones and foliage and waited for signs of intelligent life. Black flame reflected in his rounded helmet when a rustling came from nearby bushes Read More