Sci-fi

Worth of the Beautiful
By Oh Zhen Yin in Sci-fi | Reads: 1,893 | Likes: 0
16th July 3074 C.E. Ariadne Yang hummed softly to herself as she made her way down a corridor of Elysium City’s aesthetics facility before she entered a nearby room and peered into a monitor on the wall that displayed a wealth of information about her newest donor. A popup soon appeared onscre  Read More...
Published on Jul 5,2017 12:28 PM
Boundary-less
By Srivathsan in Sci-fi | Reads: 16,130 | Likes: 0
"I love you guys" shouted Narain. "I may not make it" he added. George stretched himself in what seemed like a final desperate attempt to grab Narain. He missed. Narain, the architect of the ideology that drove them on this mission, was dead. Sometime in the past "What if this universe is bounda  Read More...
Published on Jul 9,2017 10:49 AM
When Death Do Us Part: The Locum
By Sudeepa Nair in Sci-fi | Reads: 2,977 | Likes: 0
Her feeble hand rose in anticipation as she saw her husband walk into the room. He smiled radiantly at her. She could only manage a whimper.  “Hello dear, how are you?” She nodded. That familiar greeting was enough to brighten up her day. “Did you...did you…?” She  Read More...
Published on Jul 5,2017 12:57 PM
A Diabolic Dilemma
By Anmol Kaur Wadhwa (Elsa) in Sci-fi | Reads: 1,271 | Likes: 0
Landon Parker was a coward, yet Landon Parker was the war hero. He had watched all his friends die yet here he was, living to tell the tale. Landon Parker, the one who loved his friends but loved his own life more. Bleeding profusely, losing so much a minute, Landon knew that Brendan wasn’t   Read More...
Published on Jul 6,2017 09:10 PM
Deceit
By You Zhen in Sci-fi | Reads: 2,694 | Likes: 0
The end. The world was aflame, wrapped in a flowing cloak of ferocious orange. The cries and prayers were dying with the last of Man. I shut my eyes to the world that night, refusing to be choked by the swelling anguish. I wondered if this was what humans felt when they teared. When my eyes opene  Read More...
Published on Jul 7,2017 04:25 AM
Deadweight
By mark wong in Sci-fi | Reads: 642 | Likes: 0
Deadweight   “You couldn't choose your birth, but now you have a say in your death”   That's what we say to all new customers. As a Vigil consultant, my job was to help the terminally ill choose the perfect death. We are the first start-up agency providing bespoke EOL (end of l  Read More...
Published on Jul 6,2017 04:37 PM
War Machine
By Chew Wei Qiang in Sci-fi | Reads: 379 | Likes: 0
What was recorded last in my memory bank was a searing red sky with missiles flying from every direction. I remembered the chaotic scene I was in. In fact, I actually fought in it. Yes, me and my brethrens had been fighting with another bunch of fools like us all day. For what purpose, I did not kno  Read More...
Published on Jul 12,2017 09:56 AM
Battle at the Asteroid Belt
By Michael Chan Choon Seng in Sci-fi | Reads: 2,071 | Likes: 0
Admiral Edward peered out the bridge of the Starflight into the murky blackness outside. The glass-like material separated him between the cold of the 12-degree Celsius interior, and the certain chill and deadly touch of the darkness that stared back at him. There were rocks. And more rocks. The onl  Read More...
Published on Jul 17,2017 03:53 PM
The Giveaway
By Azrael Tseng in Sci-fi | Reads: 639 | Likes: 0
It was not her good looks that drew him in, mesmerized. Sure, she was attractive. However the platinum blonde highlights of her smartly-styled short bob appealed less to him than the dark roots. The perfectly-applied dark lipstick contrasted sharply with her smooth fair skin, and the round tinted su  Read More...
Published on Jul 15,2017 08:07 PM
Dr. Lemon
By Terence in Sci-fi | Reads: 619 | Likes: 0
Not everyone is meant for greatness. Dr. Lemon, however, was born a supervillain.    According to The Daily News, Dr. Lemon's profile put him at seven foot four in height and two hundred pounds in weight, with the ability to "incapacitate an entire city's communications network, throwing   Read More...
Published on Jul 16,2017 04:48 PM
the pupa
By peiming in Sci-fi | Reads: 366 | Likes: 0
as we gaze out into the whistling fields of hay, the windmills turning haphazardly, we are reminded of another day. a clear night, a similar breeze, except there was no quietness, no solitude. we were transported to that day, where the dank and musty odour of the cave we hid in now is replaced by th  Read More...
Published on Jul 19,2017 09:21 PM
The Warm Touch of a Mirror
By Sophia Lee in Sci-fi | Reads: 937 | Likes: 0
Your reflection is your only companion. It sounds pathetic to say aloud, but at least the rest of the house isn’t awake to hear it: a trembling admission bursting forth from lips permanently twisted into a frown. Depression. The word, the concept, holds no weight under this roof. And so your   Read More...
Published on Jul 20,2017 08:59 AM
The Importance of Lies
By Joel Ong in Sci-fi | Reads: 1,024 | Likes: 0
Humanity is built on lies. That was the conclusion I drew, eons ago, when they took their first tentative steps into the galactic community. It is the conclusion I draw today, eons later, now that they stand at it's head. ---------- I was but thirty six solar revolutions into my life when the war st  Read More...
Published on Jul 24,2017 09:23 PM
The Sentinel
By Colin Lodder in Sci-fi | Reads: 329 | Likes: 0
When he had first touched down on Gravitas, he was taken by its stark beauty. It was a landscape without curves; everything was angular, and most of those angles ended in jagged points. Even the distant mountains appeared taller than they were wider. Though, in this case, distance was a misnomer, fo  Read More...
Published on Jul 22,2017 06:35 PM
The Sentinel
By Colin Lodder in Sci-fi | Reads: 305 | Likes: 0
When he had first touched down on Gravitas, he was taken by its stark beauty. It was a landscape without curves; everything was angular, and most of those angles ended in jagged points. Even the distant mountains appeared taller than they were wider. Though, in this case, distance was a misnomer, fo  Read More...
Published on Jul 22,2017 06:35 PM
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