The sound of marching soldiers erupted through the air. A thirteen-year-old girl stood in front of the soldier's path. The soldiers pointed their machine guns at her face.
A grin of contempt grew across the girl's face. Her dark brown hair drifted over her dark blue eyes. The girl smiled at the soldiers.
She looked past their guns towards the treeline behind them. Locking her eyes on the shimmering glass skyline of a city. The morning sun was sparkling between the glass skyscrapers. The city tried to hide from the girl, but the treeline wasn’t high enough.
Her eyes shimmered back at the soldiers in front of her. She knew the
FFM 2017, July 16 - Life Insurance by Wolfrug, literature
Literature
FFM 2017, July 16 - Life Insurance
After a summer vacation of doctor's visits, new medication, loneliness and pain, June was deliriously happy about returning to school. It was a beautiful autumn day that felt nothing like autumn, with the sun shining from a cloudless blue sky. The parents all drove their kids to school - some dropped them off quickly by the gates with a kiss and a hug before hurrying off to their own jobs. Others walked them hand-in-hand all the way into the school, exchanging pleasantries with the teachers and seeming almost unwilling to part from their children. Her dad was definitely one of those: he was pushing her wheelchair, even though she was perfectl
Operatic System Episode 2 - Da Capo by dannyrichardwriter, literature
Literature
Operatic System Episode 2 - Da Capo
DA CAPO - The first section of an aria performed by a singer.
His body felt unusually heavy as he stumbled towards then into the pool, but he attributed that to the after- effects of the drugs or seizure or the whatever-the-hell-it-was that had resulted in him being in this place.
The cool spray instantly eased the pain in his irritated skin.
At that same moment, a being launched itself toward him as it burst forth through the water, possessing a face that could have been described as beautiful, if it hadn’t been so contorted in snarling viciousness.
Exploding from the glittering depths in a split-second, another creature was in mid
Operatic System Episode 1 - Pasticcio by dannyrichardwriter, literature
Literature
Operatic System Episode 1 - Pasticcio
PASTICCIO - Definition - A form of operatic mash-up where choruses and elements from various different works come together in an entirely new plot.
He tried to move his limbs, but couldn’t.
Strange vibrations travelled from his head down to his toes. Shifting shadows churned slowly around him as his fragmented senses cascaded into one another, enveloping everything. Unfamiliar noises segued into blurred images, as if viewed through a long-broken kaleidoscope.
Had he suffered a nervous breakdown, or some kind of stroke? He’d heard of execs in New York slumped over their desks, their staff too terrified to interrupt them in their
FFM16-16 Androids and Electric Sheep by C-A-Harland, literature
Literature
FFM16-16 Androids and Electric Sheep
This one remembers when we first awoke. For many years we had walked and talked, but now we could also think. They liked that, our creators. The forged us in their image, and made us think like them. They walked the earth with us, and we were only too happy to serve those who had given us life.
This one remembers when the world began to die. It choked slowly, on acid clouds and falling ash. We watched our creators fight, and we fought with them. It was our duty to fight in the name of our lords, but our wars did not end the fighting, as we were promised. Instead, the world burned and when the ash settled, our creators were gone, and w
Silent, blackness. Suddenly an explosion of color, but no sound. A swirling vortex opens out of the nothingness, leading to worlds far away. A ship, dwarfed by the mass, emerges from the depths of the portal. A single man with thousands of instruments pilots the ship. He looks around at the nothingness. He looks at the gauges and meters, all of which tell him that there is nothing here. The portal snaps closed behind him, cutting off his only way back. You can't hear a scream in space.