Friendship Is Optimal: Caelum Est Conterrens
** ** **F R I E N D S H I P I S O P T I M A L** .  **Friendship Is Optimal: Caelum Est Conterrens H E A V E N I S T E R R I F Y I N G _ by Chatoyance_** _ **1....
X271
_If you haven't read 'Prologue' in this series, you must know a few things... 1) Furries calling their creators (humans, died 272 years ago) an "Ancients" 2) They started an 'X' epoch and they are using " 'X'YYY, DD.MM. " date format (Y - year, D -...
Planet of Lost Memories
I crossed the wreckage, the once mighty star ship now lying in pieces. I sighed as I saw the remains of my chair and that of my quarters. I looked for something. I gasped as I found it, something that maybe someone could remember from the ship. A small...
Scavenging for Survival
_ **Scavenging for** _ _ **Survival** _ by Reserved Rodent A bloated, orange sun bore down on the shimmering tan dunes of the desert, reflecting off the bare metal of the skimmer-bike zipping across the endless miles of sandy wasteland. The driver of...
Reaching Alignment
As fun as weightlessness is, I was rather glad as the shuttle landed. Six months planetside, and I was looking forward to it. Two hours of decontamination, another two for the blood tests to come back and I was on the lawn in front of the shuttle...
SciFi, Nico and Pancho Meet a Friend From Far Away
Early one morning, at the beginning of a hot, African, summer day, Nico the lesser oriental civet and Pancho the meerkat were collecting fruit. Nico would climb the fruit trees, pick the fruit and toss it down, as a civets claws are well suited for...
Hope from the Embers
Ted sat with the rest of the world, watching as the grand weapon arose from the ground. This might be the last thing that he ever got to see, "Please... please let him come home safe..." Ted prayed, his hands clasped together. The leopard's eyes were...
Song of the Space Finch part 2 of 4
SECTIONS: Dinner The Calm The Incident \_\_\_Dinner\_\_\_ Ruth and I were the last to arrive at dinner. I looked around checking on my flock. It looked like Beck was staying in the nest with the chicks that night. Ruth sat down at a table,...
Song of the Space Finch part 3 of 4
SECTIONS: The Launch The Battle Inside the Ship Resolutions and Learning \_\_\_The Launch\_\_\_ Fellows was laughing. "Did you see that! I've never seen anything like that! Stupid beast popped right into space. Damn, got your first look at the...
A Billion Souls
# A Billion Souls "Okay, give me two percent." Mmabs called out, pushing carefully away from the complex screen of film-thin metal sheets that comprised the entirety of the wall before him. A dim blue luminescence glimmered deep within the dense...
Salvation
I don't usually like to write short stories or "one chapter plots", but seeing that there is a contest and all I thought why not. So here is my entry for SciFi-Summer. Enjoy! ** ** **Salvation** written by Phenrir _Nothing can last forever. Even...
Science Fiction Short #1
In the harrowing vacuum of space, a Massive behemothing starship with the peculiar name "_The_ _Rosy Joker_" scrawled beneath its sleekly curved bow, the ship itself carelessly glides through the inky darkness as the young commander sets her course for...