Sojourner

On May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 By Danielle O'ShayIn Flash Fiction, Original FictionLeave a comment

A quick write of a synopsis of a possible future book. Someday, perhaps, it will be written.

We walked on the moon in 1969.

We walked on mars in 2025.

We discovered light-speed travel in 2052.

By 2070 we were exploring planets outside our galaxy and creating new civilizations.

By 2080 we had created the perfect artificial intelligence systems.

By 2112 we touched where no one has ever touched before. Humanity, spread throughout the farthest reaches of the galaxies, going deeper and deeper and deeper until we began to lose sight of the horizon, until we began to lose ourselves in the dust of eternity. It was beautiful. It was dangerous. It was impossible. We had paths reaching so far into the cosmos that those who left earth did not come back, nor did we ever hear from them again. We could only stand on our shriveling planet in the light of a dying sun and hope with all hope that the brave men and women who launched themselves into the stars for the good of mankind survived, and continued to live out there among the spiraling light of distant planets.

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Space Giants

On March 27, 2020March 20, 2020 By Danielle O'ShayIn Flash Fiction, Original FictionLeave a comment

There are legends of far-flung planets suspended at the edge of all that we know, hovering in the wide expanse of space and lit by the luminesce of trillions of ancient stars. These skies are filled with a tapestry of diamonds, flung brilliantly across the heavens over empty, silent planets. Planets where mankind has not left their mark. Planets of greenery and foliage, of ice and snow, of sand and rock. Planets built of nothing but great rolling breakers crashing on shoreless seas. Uninhabited, untouched, unseen. Infinite.

In these skies giants dwell.

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Nebular

On November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 By Danielle O'ShayIn Flash Fiction, Original Fiction2 Comments

Deep within the realm of the stars lies a beast. He is an ancient being, crafted from the darkness that was the face of the deep, before man became man and the earth and sky were without form. When the light came, separating night from day and the light from the dark, that is when he was born. Fashioned out of scattered pieces of the heavens, built by the hands of the divine. The Creator breathed life into what had been designed and the beast came to life, shaking a mighty head and splashing the waters of the firmament around his feet. Opening his great mouth to yawn, he settled down to watch as a World was built around him, a single World where only a void had once resided. The waters of land and sky were divided, giving name to Earth and Heaven. Stars filled in the empty places of the night. The Hand took up a brush and painted the world with Color, adding red, gold, silver, and many others to the blank pages until at last, it was finished.

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First Contact

On September 20, 2019September 20, 2019 By A.J. ReevesIn Flash Fiction, Original FictionLeave a comment

People were so frightened, they hadn’t known what to do. What do you do when you learn Aliens are real? They acted badly, they made mistakes, and as a repercussion, all friendly relations were severed. They hadn’t known they wanted to be friends, their language was beyond their understanding. They assumed the words were a threat. Of course, they did, they always do. Professor Donald Boulder was one of the top linguists in the world and he worked tirelessly to unlock the secrets of their language, and when someone works with that dedication, of course, they accomplish their task, sadly he was too late, the Aliens has already left.

Humanity, embarrassed by their actions, joined together to build the worlds fastest and most technologically advanced spaceship to ever exist. A team was put together, a strategist was brought in from Russia, a scientist from Germany, a robotics mechanic from Japan, a spaceship pilot and a linguist from America. With sad farewells and heavy hearts, the team left their known world and headed off into space, following the thick exhaust trail of the retreating aliens.

First contact had happened and they had failed. But the vastness of space with twinkling lights seemed to offer hope…