Science Fiction Short Stories

Long Distance Relationship

Mark and Amy had fallen in love.

They had never met in person, but they knew each other very well through correspondence, even though the letters took a long time to arrive.

Perpetual Motion

- Father, father! I created a perpetual motion machine!

- Really? Show me!

- See, these parts travel this way… and then they come back!

- And what keeps them moving?

Life

A ray of bright light crossed the skies in the distance, approaching a planet. Both could be seen with the naked eye, but the telescopes helped make sense of what it was.

The rocky planet was being bombarded with a liquid. Water.

Doom Upon Us

Humanity received a message from a far away system.

The message wasn’t meant for everyone, and it was clearly sent by someone — or something — that had studied us. It was written in plain English and cyphered with the public keys of some of the most prominent scientific minds on…

A couple of days

The man opened his eyes.

Everything around him was odd, but nonetheless familiar.

- Hello.

- Hi…

- We’ve taken your conscience into a new body.

Interdimensional

Smith tilted to the left and disappeared, but not like he was traversing a portal, more like every single one of his atoms was traversing a different mini portal.

Let me restate this: it wasn’t as if an invisible mirror stood at his side and he walked right past it; no…

The Library

The man was set free.

He moved his legs and walked out of the harnesses. He had never used his legs before, but they had been prepared for him to be able to move.

He looked around and for the first time in his life, he saw something other than shadows.