Category: Short Stories
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Steve and I dashed madly through the corridors to the C.I.C., as other men and boys ran elsewhere all around us. The siren had stopped blaring, but the panic was still there. Frantic thoughts passed through my head over and over again. Pirates! Pirates attacking us! I’m going to die!…
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Captain Cork dashed through the corridors as fast as he could, with Mr. Spark chasing after him. The Spirit Halloween aliens popped out of every corner, ransacking rooms and killing crewmen left and right. “Captain, what is our actual next course of action?” asked Spark. “We can’t run like terrified…
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The shuttle tore through the black, star-speckled void of orbital space, picking up speed with every second. I couldn’t see the Earth behind us, but ahead…ahead was a whole new universe. Giant space stations spun lazily, kilometers long, in rings, cylinders, and spheres that looked like something out of The…
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“Mark, wake up!” a familiar voice shouted. “Time to go to the naval base!” I groaned, rolled over, and rubbed my eyes. Slowly, I sat up. The room looked the same as it had the night before, but the sky outside the window wasn’t pitch black. Dark blue twilight glimmered…
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When I finally came to, everything was dark. The chamber was pitch-black; the blue glow that had lit the rocks before was gone. I took a breath. The air was clear now—no bitter taste, no sting in my throat. What happened? I wondered, pushing myself upright, my body stiff and…
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As strange as it may sound, there was a time in my life when I could honestly say I was the universe’s only 110-year-old boy. In other words, I—Mark Alexander Starman—am almost certainly the only man in modern history whose ordinary lifetime of eighty years has stretched across one hundred…
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“Captain, if you’ll follow me, I’ll give you your regularly scheduled tour of the Roddenberry,” said Spark, stepping away from his console and toward the door. “Proceed,” said Cork, standing up from his chair and following him. The two stepped out and stepped into an elevator. Or at least Cork…
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Space. The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Roddenberry. Its five-season mission: To foul up strange new worlds. To tick off new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man wants it to go! Captain Joe P. Cork sat back in his shuttlecraft, watching the…
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This is a modified version of a short story I wrote in sixth grade English class, based on (and parodying) Greek mythology. Enjoy! Hephermes, Greek God of Cars by Sevin Kwon In ancient times, the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus had had it all. The Greeks adored them and…
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Mark Starman in the 21st Century 