It had been a long gallop along a stone riddled path, he was glad that day he had given the horse newly polished iron shoes. He was resting on a patch of grass, it was dry but had a modicum of moisture that made it feel wet under his coarse fibre trousers. He fingered his straw hat, feeling the fibres before placing it to conceal his eyes to avoid the blinding sun. He closed his eyes gently shut, ...

It was a beautiful day with splendid orange-rufous dunes that stretched about a few dozen miles into the distance. Before that we had passed through a completely flat and level expanse of hard ochre sand that stretched on for around three hundred miles, the ship moves roughly four miles to every half hour so we spen innumerable times there. We were overjoyed to see the second stage of our journey,...

I was looking at the tumult of indigo and turquoise, as we dived are hands now separated. I looked at the enveloping waves beneath, at their majestic and overpowering nature. At their dreadful skill of submerging a man, and both captivating him. So many ships had survived that tumult, that endless churning and restless turning that never ceased; only calmed and then became a maelstrom of petrifyin...

It was one of those dammable nights cast from dream to dream before its resolution repeatedly I woke up sweating and wary of breath, tendrils of it snaked down my forehead until I tasted a bitter, odorous taste. I was enveloped by the familiar light of my lamp stationed rigidly by my side, my hand felt weary the amount of times it was summoned to the switch. I had no trouble of the least concernin...

It had been three gruelling hell-haunted days on that abysmal planet. Frostbite had found its way into the appendages of the crew, each face grew thin and yearned for warmth, even subtle things like the sane and steady look in the eyes of the “Leader” had changed.

Complexities beyond the resources of a barren tundra world had shown themselves in the fixtures of the ship. Slowly the twenty thousan...

It was a calm day continuously cast from grey to clear, a kind of battle between those two lateral elements. One gaining ground then just as quickly as it was taken the other element encroached.

The trees were lifeless and possessed nearly no character that day, so if a man ventured into a forest he would feel entirely alone and paranoid; continuously casting glances over his shoulder. Their bran...