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• Ode to the cathode ray tube

  by Ridcully Calvert 1 day ago

  Syrupy sweet vowels and consonants,
  discordant crashes of hate,
  tumble discordantly through the ether
  Long lost to Sol
  now th…

• If a miner went insane...

  by Reneth Pallian 6 days ago

  The underground. I hate it. But, I guess I knew what I was getting into when I joined the Solar Armada… I knew what would h…

• Woke Up On The Wrong Side Of The Web. (Aliens From Within Part 3)

  by Trafalmadorian_Mighty-Joe Young 17 days ago

  J.D translated Little Owl’s (Navajo) message aloud,
  “When a mosquito is in a spider web the spider lets it struggle and loose…

• Allies in strange place.(The Others Chapter 8)

  by Trafalmadorian_Mighty-Joe Young 19 days ago

  The ominous organ-like machines pounded a drumline that caused the toxic metals in the air to dance like tracers around Jare…

• Father Bryce Meets An Alien

  by Will Hindmarch 23 days ago

  Outside the room where Father Bryce meets his first extraterrestrial are twenty marines with face-masks and oily new guns. Po…

• Waiting for Klaatu

  by Will Hindmarch 23 days ago

  The goblin folds up the paper and turns to the elf, who’s slurping his tea. “So the Catholic Church says it’ll welcome space …

• On Mars

  by YodaOnCrack 29 days ago

  The spaceship landed on the polar caps of Mars. White geysers of ice swirled on top of the red surface, and frozen carbon dio…

• Aliens from within

  by Trafalmadorian_Mighty-Joe Young 29 days ago

  The Earth became water as it rippled the vibration through the rustic town of Alpine, Arizona.
  When the wave of debris travel…

• Sechruj's Calling

  by YodaOnCrack about 1 month ago

  “From what I can tell, Sechruj has at least three times the IQ of any human being that has ever lived. Together we have devel…

• The Journey

  by OboeTheres about 1 month ago

  They were roughly shoved into one of the small cells in the brig. The fact that they could all fit in one cell was a sign of …