Wildlife

The astronaut walked out of the ship and into the wild.

Not a lot was known about life on this planet, other than the fact that they were also carbon-based, and relatively similar to life on Earth.

The Ship

Upon arrival, it could be seen with the naked eye from the planet’s surface. Everyone knew it was coming, but no one was prepared for a spaceship this huge.

Some even swore they could see reverse boosters that prevented it from entering the atmosphere. There were reverse boosters of…

Forward

After uncovering the fabric of time, the scientist believed he had the key to time travel, if only forward.

The concept was brilliant and it faced only one problem: the lack of vision from the leaders.

Goodbye, cruel world

He tied the rope in a knot, placed it over his neck and pulled tight.

He had spent the most part of the previous day considering this.

He pulled the rope a couple of times to make sure it would hold.

Future sentence

The old man was about to die.

Oddly, nobody else was in the room.

The door opened, and a man walked in.

The old man couldn’t speak; he looked at the stranger.

Embryo

The creature opened its eyes.

It saw machines, but couldn’t tell what they were.

It looked around, because its instincts told it to look for her mother, but there was no living being in sight.

The Prediction

The machine read the next prediction: “A zoo with dinosaurs will open in 25 years.”

It computed all the information on zoos and dinosaurs, sought out all the samples that could be useful, invested computing power into figuring out a strategy, deployed robots to build all the…

Too late

When the probe arrived and scanned us, we got nervous. It sent signals back, and we were aware of that.

Sometime, somewhere, the news that we existed would arrive.

We worried.