My phone rang in the dead of night. The dim gray light broke through the darkness of my bedroom as vibration rattled through my nightstand and my ringtone broke through the silence. I forgot I’d changed it recently, and the sudden tone of the drowning theme from those old “Sonic the Hedgehog” games is certainly one way to be awakened at such early hours. It’s still dark outside.

I rolled over aft...

As I was driving to work I was expecting a normal day. Instead, as I neared the office I realized the office builing was in pieces and in its remains was a UFO. I got out of my car and walked closer to the UFO. I soon saw my boss and other workers inspecting it. As I walked closer to the crashed UFO my boss greeted me and told me , “We are going to try to fix and repair whatever this is.” Then he ...

I could feel pain in all of my joints, creaking and groaning in pain, I had chunks missing out of my sides, and I was covered in frost from years of neglect. The little energy I had was spent on anger at the small people in red suits. They had only come here looking for the treasure I was rumored to protect.

One of the people dressed in red pulled out a few sticks the same color as his full body ...

A yell reawakened me while I was fiddling with the equipment with practiced scrutiny. I dusted off my breeches and stood up to search the direction I heard the sound. Steam from my mouth fogged any recognition of the men dressed in red, marching around the spotless snow like ants. It was an interesting sight.

Once my breath cleared away, it didn’t take long for me to find the source of the voice....

Being a salvage technician was never a bad job. I’m basically a modern day tow truck driver and that’s why I got into this job. My father and his father were both tow drivers, but since no one’s used cars in the last 30 years I couldn’t carry on the family company. No money in nostalgia.

Instead, I chose to work as a technician who salvages earth space craft. A good job, and it has taught me a l...

Corporal Gio Campbell wipes the fog from the goggles of his military issued BioSuit as he steps out from the Transport shuttle and onto the crash site. Gio, along with the rest of his Combat Cleanup Unit (CCU) will be conducting a clean sweep and investigation of a downed Lunar Star Fighter that crashed 50 miles south of Halcyon City in a remote mountain range at 0100 that same morning.

As Gio an...

It was a normal morning for John John the owner of the local lumber mill in Jeneau Alaska. His dog trigger hopped in the back of his truck at 5 am when he heard a loud explosion about 3 mins drive from his house. He speed down the road but nothing could prepare him for what he saw. “At first glance I thought the glourious colors light cold train smacking into the side of a mountain. Sadly onc...

The wind was blowing hard. Snow was falling and my hands were freezing. It wasn’t long ago that I had lost my gloves but my hands were almost frozen.

“Jia, how long do you think it’ll take for the helicopter to land?” I asked.

“I don’t know, but captain says it’ll at least take another few hours,” Jia replied. At this point, we had nothing to do, because we had already finished our mission. The h...

The great bellowing war cry shattered the previously peaceful skies. All heads in my tribe snapped up to find a great strange beast barreling down to the icy tundra ahead, the summons to battle not directed at us, but death itself.

“Where are its wings?” Xylar whispered in horror on my right.

I eyed the strange white being, a morbidly flattened cylinder, through the smoke trailing behind it lik...

Doug sat on the cold floor with his tablet in his lap. What was left of his quarters was canted at a somewhat 45 degree angle toward the small bathroom in the corner. He was stareing hard at the screen thinking about how to begin. The light flickered briefly and his breath was starting to show in light bursts of cool vapor. They said keep a log so we have a digital record of the incident from ever...