Out of Reach

Ground control to Major Tom..

Commander Parker hung in the copula of the International Space Station, nodding his head to the song etched in his mind.

Ground control to Major Tom…

The Astronaut Gardner

The trowel felt like a string was pulling it towards the ground. Diane relented to the force and plunged the tool into the soil, satisfyingly sliding into the damp garden. Her gloves were sitting back on the bench, a lifetime of calluses nearly disappeared after a year orbiting on Station, and she had no intention […]

A Different Kind of Death

The future came in her blind spot at 74 miles per hour. Some tired driver, some careless teenager, or maybe April’s own fault she thought as the first nudge jolted her against the seatbelt. I should probably pull over, was her first subconscious idea as her bones began to crunch with the same ease as […]

True to Conspiracy

Julie’s phone buzzed in her pocket like a handful of bees trying to escape. Maybe someone looking for directions, she ignored both the thought and the buzzing phone. Everyone at the viewing party in her Tucson home stood around the television. Somehow the Chinese were convinced to air their Moon landing live, it was a […]

Time to Chance

Edvina smiled radiantly and stepped with a light supple touch that was startling at first to many people, but was eventually seen as having a grace on its own. Still fresh from the rejuvenating mist of the time stream, she twirled in her soft hand the standard black memory stick that decoded the assigned changes […]

No Take-Backsies

In 2015 an asteroid about the size of a suburban house, large enough to do major damage to any metropolitan city, was spotted. It was found not by NASA or the European Space Agency, but by amateur astronomers. Five years earlier the United States government launch the top secret X-37, a small space shuttle carrying […]

Skywind

Winoa hardly ever washed her hands growing up. Tiny hairs of caterpillars tickled her palms, dirt clogs parched from the drought fell apart between her fingers, she’d wrap herself around the coarse stumps of trees, picking apart the bark and searching for the sap that rarely came out. Winoa’s hands once had the soft callousness […]

The Domino Table

Leigh remembered the pretty girls that used to dance in this building. He had bought more than a few of them drinks after watching them dance with their friends. Smooth complexions and tight bodies moving in the crowd shrouded by throbbing lights and loud beats. How they moved! He looked down at his feet. Only […]

Egolinsky’s Tales

Curled in a small ball atop a polished table was Elizabeth Balga’s good dragon friend. It breathed as though it was afraid of the air. “Egolinsky!” Elizabeth ran to the tiny dragon, stopping at the edge of the table. “Egolinsky! What’s wrong? Where are your books? Will you not tell me a great story?” The […]

You Failed Again

At first it was a calm sensation, like the first heavy step on land after a long afternoon scuba diving. Then the first stage really kicked up and lifted the massive Aerostar rocket up towards the sky. The weights on top of Jordan’s body grew massive as they reached 6,000 miles per hour in one […]