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TO THE MOON AND BACK • by S. Benjamin Elko Jr.

February 27, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The view of Earth was breathtaking from the small window port. Brown, blue, green, and white, all swirling together in silent slow motion — the colors standing in lush contrast to the empty black of surrounding space. Thom took a… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories S. Benjamin Elko Jr., space

STASIS DREAMS • by Jill Hand

October 14, 2017Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

Zio and Will were shipmates aboard the Venture Maru, a space freighter which sailed not only through our familiar Milky Way galaxy, delivering everything from canned peaches to ping-pong tables to radiation shields, but occasionally venturing all the way out… Continue Reading →

Romance, Science Fiction, Stories Jill Hand, love, space

DINGIR • by Shain Miles

August 16, 2017Every Day Fiction 6 Comments

Not everyone was cut out for Sweeping. It was spacer talk for the method used to collect gases and trace mineral elements found within nebulae so that they could be processed into usable compounds and fuel. It was dangerous work,… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Shain Miles, space

ABSENT SANTA • by Dale Ivan Smith

December 26, 2015Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

Early Christmas morning aboard the Masters’ starship, and once again there was no Santa Claus. I stared at the stars streaming past on the display window. There was a quiet knock on our apartment’s door, a little rap-a-tap-tap given with… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories aliens, Christmas, Dale Ivan Smith, Santa Claus, space, spaceships

IRON PRIVATEERS • by Alexander Burns

October 2, 2014Every Day Fiction 49 Comments

Antideuterium tablets flashed as they tumbled from Yuri’s shovel into the Theresa’s furnace. Exhausted, he staggered to the water bucket. Water poured down his chest and splashed to the floor, curling into steam around his boots. On a viewscreen he… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Alexander Burns, piracy, space, spaceships

DEATH BY STARLIGHT • by Robert J. McCarter

April 18, 2014Every Day Fiction 23 Comments

The void of space. Dark. Empty. Lit only by the pinpricks of starlight as I floated in the vast emptiness. Alone. Oxygen running out, blaring blood-red on my heads-up display. Time to die… The animal in us can’t conceive of… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories near-death experience, Robert J. McCarter, space

A HISTORY, IN REVERSE • by Miranda Suri

December 28, 2013Every Day Fiction 11 Comments

I wake in darkness, adrift in space. Circuits fire with animal instinct. I reach for the others, but where a vast Consciousness once clamored I find only an echoing void. I am the last, alone. My only memories are those… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Miranda Suri, space

NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED… • by Suzanne Conboy-Hill

November 21, 2013Every Day Fiction 19 Comments

Retrieval: Time = 00.00 Just checked out a doozer of an AI unit the Scavenger crew brought in. Yeah? Specs? Carbon-based so obviously non-sentient, high-end multi-receptor architecture, a CPU that monitors damage and — interesting — limited self-repair capacity. Candidate… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories entertainment, space, Suzanne Conboy-Hill

JELLYFISH • by Dani Ripley

September 2, 2012Every Day Fiction 13 Comments

Kapteyn is dead. No, that’s not right. He’s thinking, therefore not dead. His body is lost. He floats, smaller than an atom. No. That’s not right either. He’s confused. The sensation isn’t entirely unpleasant. He processes. His thoughts are slow.… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Dani Ripley, jellyfish, space

SHARK ORBIT • by William Doonan

July 30, 2012Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

Docking at the space station, Dex Branson momentarily forgot about the two-ton shark in the science bay. He was dreaming about cosmonaut Martina Voluskova, “with whom I shall soon rendezvous,” he chortled, eyeing his case of smuggled vodka. Later, with… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Science Fiction, Stories space, William Doonan

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