Dawn is the first child born on Mars. Her entire world is one single habitat covered by a dome. The entire thing can be understood. She knows everybody on the planet and they all know and love her. Then the first really BIG colony ship arrives, and the population of Mars quadruples overnight. Her parents warn her to...
"We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, and to the rest of the universe atomically." -Neil deGrasse Tyson Original image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC Highest rank: #229 05/17/2016
Pete is the captain of a generation ship that has traveled the lightyears from ruined earth to its destination system. He enjoys the privileges of his rank, unwilling to risk them by attempting a landing on the planet they have been orbiting for years. Ralph, his younger brother, has spent his life in Pete's shadow, t...
Twenty-seven miners have landed on an asteroid to collect a certain mineral. The caves they enter turn out to be tunnels made by a creature of unimaginable strength and speed. Enter the monster's mind to see what it thinks of the miners intruding on its territory. Steve Blake is a resourceful ex space marine an...
This book is a project in the manner of Exercise in Style. However, I am replacing the styles by genres. Therefore, it becomes an Exercise in Genre, where I will be attempting to recount the same story in different literary genres...
And in other, most awesome and excellent news, Ooorah brings you TK Special #4 - elveloy... Evolutionary Anomalies... That's right, another of TK's most prolific contributors, @elveloy has selected her favourite ten submissions to everyone's favourite #longestrunningwattzine and we've assembled them here so...
Tevun-Krus has gone all international on your ass! For this issue we've got authors telling stories in their own language, or translating the English stories of TK regulars into their own tongue. In this first of what we sincerely hope will become a regular annual TK Special we've got French, Russian, Spanish, I...
A gathering of old friends in different scenarios in a time and place slightly beyond our own. Sit back and enjoy snippets of life from the rocking chairs gathered round the USTAFS Senior center.
Outpost One was never a dull place. But for Joseph Snow and his crew a routine delivery run takes them down an unexpectedly twisted adventure against a mercenary rebel faction on Mars.
The Mars Rover Curiosity was sent to Mars with state of the art artificial intelligence in 2012. It's been learning ever since. How long until it truly gets curious? The story is told, at first, as a series of conversations between two of Curiosity's human specialists. My apologies to the people who do this in real...
Imogen and Rafe have united to hunt Djiin together. Their mission pulls them across the globe, from Nicaragua, Canada, all the way back to their home in Florida. Rafe's possession resulted in strange after-effects that demand to be dealt with. Among the chaos, Imogen's estranged father finds her, his power rivaling he...
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[Completed] A U.S. expatriate is cast into a rainy, foggy corner of Europe. He went there on the pretense to work on his research, but he actually wanted to put as many miles as possible between himself and his ex. The university he works for has found him an apartment in a house inhabited by a set of strange characte...
Let your dreams be caught! Let your work shine! Let your talent sparkle! The Dreamcatcher Awards is for everyone wo loves to write! Please read to find out how you can enter!
We all love fairy tales growing up. The great adventures, the handsome princes, the gorgeous maidens -- these tales have been etched in our memories. But what if these fairy tales are given a twist? What if the stakes have changed? The Oh My! Anthology celebrates the very essence of this diverse orange world -- imagi...
