“ We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. ” Queen Victoria 1890. Tiredness overcame me and I drifted back towards the sullen inkiness of sleep. I knew then in my soul that something terrible had overcome the ship and its crew. Unless I found a way out of this grey room in which I had been confined for an uncertain period of time then the same fate...

Added 17 Oct 2014 | Category Science Fiction | Votes 2 | Avg Score 4.5 | Views 1,445 | 2 Comments

The H.M.S Minerva Flashes of memory: hands pulling me from the wreckage. I dreamed of Queen Victoria floating in her cylinder of luminiferous ether, her black dress billowing slowly in the fluid. The fluid keeping her eternally alive. Her hands pressing against the glass, her mouth moving but her words made silent by the substantial dimension of the glass. Flashes of memory :...

Added 12 Oct 2014 | Category Science Fiction | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,418 | 2 Comments

THE NARRATIVE OF GORDON ARTHUR OF MARS: LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE. Her majesty’s martian colony -- New Victoria in the crown colony of Hellas -- 1917 My name is Gordon Arthur. My father was a well known importer and purveyor of Tea at New Victoria, where I was born. My grandfather was a miner and among the first colonists of Mars. During the original Nickel rush he managed to raise...

Added 09 Oct 2014 | Category Science Fiction | Votes 3 | Avg Score 4.33 | Views 1,671 | 3 Comments

 In the night no way out at how many harbours the lost man come singing. In a different light the sailor seeks the road back trying to...

Added 10 Aug 2014 | Category Poetry | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 895 | 2 Comments

He opened his eyes and found himself floating over his own bed. He watched in surprise as his body below shifted restlessly in sleep. He tried to re-enter his body but found he was unable. He felt an oppression in the room, trying to wake up but finding himself stuck in his dream, unable to enter his sleeping form again. As he looked away from his bed for the first time he noticed a...

Added 09 Aug 2014 | Category Flash Fiction | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,163 | 2 Comments

Petrol Station Wallpaper Juice Mad seas  that by Starlight melt away on the summer evenings. She grasps yellow dreams beyond shadows the twilight is gone. Only she can command flying ghosts. No words left after how many voyages stop for a while  take a chance. Awake, awake,  shifting unseeing burning at the edges. Dreaming in her pallor of gold ...

Added 05 Aug 2014 | Category Poetry | Votes 0 | Avg Score 0 | Views 930 | 1 Comment

VAPOUR Shining tired on the edge of the world memories of water to what end. The foreigner  chases his dream not knowing why. ...

Added 04 Aug 2014 | Category Poetry | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 866 | 2 Comments

THE BEAST IN THE DARK The creature is scratching at the door of the cabin, I am the last person alive on this Spaceship  All the rest dragged into the darkness by the beast from the void.   I write hurried as I'm sure these shall be my last words, the twisted savage beast batters and hammers at the airlock door.  Its screams echoing down the length...

Added 03 Aug 2014 | Category Micro Fiction | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,395 | 2 Comments

NARRATIVE OF GORDON ARTHUR OF MARS - CHAPTER 5: THE GIDDY LIMIT I started to run towards the only exit, my feet pounding against the metal sending out further ringing vibrations into the gloom. A swarming cloud of a thousand metallic red and yellow brass insects arose in front of me as I ran headlong into the buzzing horde each with its knife-like stinger aimed at my body. It...

Added 30 Aug 2015 | Category Science Fiction | Votes 0 | Avg Score 0 | Views 1,194

I came to the conclusion that the room must contain an Air Vent, after much searching I found it behind my bunk. I was able to wriggle my body inside, it was very tight and dark. Now that I had dealt with the Droid, I now just had to find a way out of my prison, and that would be easier said than done. Distant at the top of the air shaft was a faint light. I started to climb...

Added 25 Oct 2014 | Category Science Fiction | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,479 | 1 Comment