Chapter 1 Once upon a time, in a far-off galaxy, there was a young star named Evan. Evan was the brightest star in his constellation and had always been admired by those around him. He shone with such brilliance that even the darkest corners of the universe were illuminated by his light. Despite all this, Evan was unhappy. He looked at himself in the mirror, or rather, in the cosmic dust clouds that surrounded him, and sa...

You buried me, but I came back. We made mistakes. I forgive you. That's what love is. Forgiveness. Intimacy. Studying the cracks in one's heart as if they're your own. Just remember, I love you like no other.I'm watching you now. You're even more beautiful as you sleep. I remember our nights here. You'd rest in my arms and I'd watch over you.There were no complications . No doubts or jealousy. No competition for your hear...

I came to the conclusion that the room must contain an Air Vent, after much searching I found it behind my bunk. I was able to wriggle my body inside, it was very tight and dark. Now that I had dealt with the Droid, I now just had to find a way out of my prison, and that would be easier said than done. Distant at the top of the air shaft was a faint light. I started to climb upwards. Towards my escape, hopefully towards s...

“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.” Queen Victoria 1890. Tiredness overcame me and I drifted back towards the sullen inkiness of sleep. I knew then in my soul that something terrible had overcome the ship and its crew. Unless I found a way out of this grey room in which I had been confined for an uncertain period of time then the same fate would overcome me as well. I watched the Med...

The H.M.S Minerva Flashes of memory: hands pulling me from the wreckage. I dreamed of Queen Victoria floating in her cylinder of luminiferous ether, her black dress billowing slowly in the fluid. The fluid keeping her eternally alive. Her hands pressing against the glass, her mouth moving but her words made silent by the substantial dimension of the glass. Flashes of memory : distorted faces... When I awoke, I found mysel...

Her majesty’s martian colony -- New Victoria in the crown colony of Hellas -- 1917 My name is Gordon Arthur. My father was a well known importer and purveyor of Tea at New Victoria, where I was born. My grandfather was a miner and among the first colonists of Mars. During the original Nickel rush he managed to raise enough money to buy plots of land in Mare Serpentis which he made his fortune. I was sent at the age of six...

THE BEAST IN THE DARK The creature is scratching at the door of the cabin, I am the last person alive on this Spaceship  All the rest dragged into the darkness by the beast from the void.  I write hurried as I'm sure these shall be my last words, the twisted savage beast batters and hammers at the airlock door.  Its screams echoing down the length of the empty ship. I`m sure it will break through within moments...Help me....

This short takes place during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse in the year 2053. the first year of The Dead War.  BELOVED: Dead War Series Flash Fiction By George L. Cook III Grover looked on as the naked female zombie gnawed on the femur of her latest victim. Blood and grime covered her entire torso. Well what was left of it any way. Her abdomen had been ripped out and her entrails lay on the floor before her. O...

HuntersChapter Three: The Hunt Is OnBy Nathan MullinsThe sun had risen high in the blue, tranquil sky. Whisper had awoken earlier than her friend, and sat on the boxes she had slept on, thinking. She had been doing a lot of this lately. She'd been frightened, put through hell, but Shimmer was always by her side, always there to watch over her, and never the other way around. Never had she ever been given the chance to sav...