“I will be forced to marry tomorrow, Lucifer dear,” she said softly.

“Oh, darling, there will be a wedding, but you will not marry anything as weak as a man.”

She closed her eyes and breathed in his sulferous, luminous scent. His glowing eyes bore a hole straight to her soul. She was happy to bare it to him. It was almost his, anyway.

“What demon, then, will an honest woman out of me?”

Lu...

In the golden night, the leaves of the dark blooming flower curl outward. It collects light only from the farthest reaching stars. Red dwarfs, ready to go supernova, feed it. It sucks the life from them, creating the golden night on the planet so cherished by it’s inhabitants. It’s world is bright and vital, while the universe dies around it....

This crash site needed to be processed quickly. Charlie considered it an honor when he had first received this outpost assignment. This exo planet was yet unexplored, or so they had thought when the Alliance had located it 20 light years outside of their solar system. As an engineer, Charlie had assumed his main job when they finally reached the ice planet would be to maintain their ship and f...