Ekhi
The spaceship dropped back into real space in close proximity to the third core planet. Tahri Defense Command declared a red alert, the highest level of emergency warning. The rogue cargo ship didn’t reply to the center’s queries and proceeded towards the second planet at a high speed. Tahri Defense Command ordered shoot-down and set a final countdown for Captain Lasta to speak. A transmission from the cargo ship came in at an unusual frequency. Captain Lasta
Tahri military sent a battleship to Nantahanak, a Tahri outpost in borderline territory. The mission goal was clear: identify the alien force and terminate all alien activities. Ekhi came out of its idle state and discovered the Tahri spaceship.
OMG, so many good questions and I'm afraid I can't answer them. I wrote this story many years ago. It was reposted here at some time. It was an early attempt at writing a longer story and I have probably not fleshed it out properly and left out many details and background information. Sorry about this. Many thanks, however, for your interest in my story and your detailed feedback. It will remind me to have a closer look at the plot of any future stories of mine.
False Flag
The platform was located at the edge of the Eridani system. The artificial structure had once served as a hub for interstellar space travels and was still monitored by the Eridani monitoring system. No activities had been observed for decades and the monitoring data showed no activities on the platform in the previous days either. The final signals of the missing ship, however, pointed to the long deserted platform.
The spaceship with the Orean ambassador on board never arr
National Poetry Month 2017
Part III - Formal Poetry
Prompt: Acrostic Poem. Start from your name, the name of a city or a month.
Word: September Summer’s End Pumpkins Time Evening Mists Bring Early Rime
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Prompt: Number Poem. Base your number poem on a sequence of numbers important to you, a social security number, a zip code, a date written in numerals, a telephone number, lucky number
National Poetry Month 2017
Part II - Found Poetry
Prompt: Found Poetry. Cento. A cento is a poem made entirely of lines from other poems. The cento differs from found poetry in that every line is taken from another poem, instead of just any borrowed material. Don't use chunks bigger than two lines long. Regular meter is not necessary, and neither is rhyme. You can change the tense of verbs, or the person of pronouns, but don't make any large changes to the lines of poetry you bo