Isolation-Excerpt 1-Arrival
My ship creaked and rattled as it made the jump out of Hyperspace. Laying in front of me was the forest world of Ios. From my Recaro pilot seat I could see clouds swirling over the dark green surface. It's aquatic moon peacefully orbited the planet and...
Surface: Doomed Planet-Excerpt 1- Marooned
"Error in cryogenic containment array", The computer's staticy voice chirped as feeling began to return to my limbs, "primary and secondary Cyro Fluid pumps failed, Pods 1-3 damaged, releasing magnetic locks....done. Pods 4-10 undamaged Error, Systems...
Isolation-Excerpt 2-Quarantine
Sarah and Jacob started pounding at the door, screaming at no one or nothing in particular, their shouts echoed throughout the building, announcing our presence to every escaped creature in the lab. The little boy hid behind my leg, hiding his face in...
A Dragon's Tale-Chapter 1-In The Begining
Location: 5 miles north of Laos,Vietnam Operator:John Alex Mason Target:Wyatt Clarke Mission:Rescue Time:1220 hours "The barge matches intel,Issac said,Wyatt's probably on broad." "BRING US ALONGSIDE HUDSON",I shouted over the...
Surface: Doomed Planet-Excerpt 2-Chy
"They.....they shot you!", I said, tears coming to my eyes under my visor, "I watched them put a bullet in your head! I watched you die!?" Chy looked up at me, a smile on her face. She pointed to a huge crack scar in her visor, the exit wound. She...
Isolation-Excerpt 6-Survivors
I didn't get much sleep that night. I had several nightmares that I was back in captivity that almost made it seem like I'd never escaped in the first place. Add that in with the constant low moans and scratching of whatever creature happened to be...
Isolation-Excerpt 8-Vents
Mike laughed at my comment as I helped him up. "That was too close", Allen said, "there were at least four dozen of those things." "Seemed like there were more", Mike said wiping dirty, bloody sweat off his forehead, "is there a working shower...
Isolation-Excerpt 3-Supply Run
This job was turning out to be much more than a simple bug hunt. I had come into this thinking it was just the typical scientist who got careless with a few gene splicing agents, but was now beginning to think that there was something else at play...
A Dragon's Tale-The Star's Journey-Chapter 1-Ulysses
Ashley, this is from me, Devin and Mermaid, for you. We miss you sister, and we hope to see you home on Wattpad again. The cool, dry night air seeped in through the gap between the canvas tent and the lose, shifty sand of the Iraqi ground. The...
Isolation-Excerpt 7-Biome Labs
I brought up my PDA the second I was in the hallway. I navigated to the maps and found a JPEG file that had a big blue "NEW FILE" on it. I clicked on it and found that it was the map to the Biome's. From where I was it was straight down the hallway to...
An Anthro's Tale-Cahpter 1-Our Stroy
It's not like I look for trouble,I don't have to. At my height,it just always seems to find me. My name is Seth. The story I'm about to tell you is weird,very weird,but it's my story,our story. If youv'e past me and my friends walking home from...
Pandemic-Day 30 7:04 AM 12/21/2022-Chapter 1-It Begins
Time stopped, I waited, only a few seconds. Tears began to roll down my face. My mind was numb. There was nothing inside me, nothing at all as I stood up and pulled the quit, with it's brown and white raccoon and deep green forest design flanked by a...