Darkness blanketed the Montes Apenninus just beyond his son’s bedroom window.
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“I hear voices and scratching,” the child whispered beneath a heavy comforter.
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“The Last of Their Kind”
The final flight of mankind.
Several Lunar Roving Vehicles remain scattered across the surface of the Moon.
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Once I dreamed you may carry me to the stars – that I may be your fuel and force. I wondered if we may conquer the cosmos together.
I haven’t always lived on the Moon.
Very long ago I existed among you. I was your Father and you were my children. Not necessarily in a literal sense, but we loved as parent and child. I was your shameless advocate. You were my eager apprentice.
“Lunar Secrets”
There is a reason you know nothing about Apollo 18.
Undead hands appear
“Larissa is Coming”
Originally published three years ago, this post presents a slightly reworked “Larissa is Coming”.
Onboard Theia, Sarah Chavous had just a few remaining moments to potentially save the Earth from an extraterrestrial attack. Continue reading ““Larissa is Coming””
“Lunar Lockdown”
A mysterious menace terrorizes the first major foray of mankind into space.
After two others disappeared into the basalt expanse beyond the habitation, the colony changed the previously established curfew into a lockdown.
“The Lunar Secret”
The truth about Apollo 11.
A gloved hand ripped through broken chunks of lunar basalt.
“Run!”
“Tycho”
A Lunar discovery of the ominous kind.
The astronauts stood at the rim of the crater and studied the expansive feature through tinted visors.
“A New Kind of Lunar Colonist”
That escalated quickly.
The first cathedral on the Moon was constructed with great blocks of basalt.
The new colonists were pleased and gazed on Earth with wonder.
“The Unexpected” (VSS XX)
A collection of short fiction from my Twitter account (@jojascully).
The helium-3 operation on the Moon ran smoothly until fossilized materials started jamming the processor.
Bones.
Human bones.
A Visit to the Idea Factory 