space - Stories

Woken four hundred years off course. Crew: vanished. Company: an AI who refuses to stay just a computer.

James Carson signed up to clean toilets on a one-way trip to the stars. He got centuries of lost time, an empty ship, and a mystery no one's left to explain.

The way home is long. He won't be making it alone.

A washed-up captain steals an alien saucer, crashes it into a pre-spaceflight civilization, and accidentally abducts a terrified teenage local. Now he's stranded with a hostile hostage, a sarcastic AI, and a teleporter that turns livestock inside out. To make things worse, his estranged husband is tracking him across the galaxy—and the real owners of the ship want everyone dead. A chaotic sci-fi romp about bad decisions, found family, and learning that running from your problems just creates bigger ones.

Aboard a deep-space explorer vessel, a strict lieutenant and a playful chief engineer navigate the pressures of active duty through a secret romance. To melt his partner's rigid professionalism, the engineer uses his hyper-precise cybernetic touch to drive the lieutenant into a helpless state of ticklish surrender—turning a breathless, playful ritual into a deep anchor at the edge of the galaxy.

In the final tale of Zafiro, he is trapped with voices controlling his head. A familiar face joins him in the Icebox and his mother is doing all she can to help her child.

Meanwhile, a new enemy is sneaking about the shadows that is threatening what remaining family he has left on earth!

Mickey Ryder is twenty-three, deeply in debt, and the captain of a barely-functioning mail ship held together by salvage tape and bad decisions. When a runaway cult boy named Isaiah hides in his cargo bay, Mickey does the one thing he never does—he says yes. Now they're running from New Eden, hauling mystery cargo, and trying not to kill each other. But between a dead exploration ship, a screaming alien in a crate, and a religious mandate that just dropped a nine-year-old son on his doorstep, Mickey's about to learn that surviving is easy. Living? That's the hard part.

This is a collection of scenes, very shorts, and doodles in the Sci-Fi space.

The Toxic Trash Panda is a garbage scow of chaotic himbos. Kael (Fabulous), Jax (Muscle), River (Nerd), and Zane (Brooding) are broke, vain, and co-dependent. On Christmas Eve in Neo-Kowloon Orbital, they intercept the Silent Night—a corporate prison ship ferrying orphans to a life of forced caroling. Outraged by the beige uniforms and the sheer lack of festive flair, these four disasters suit up in tactical glitter to stage the galaxy’s most stylish prison break. It’s a festive, chaotic space opera about found family, fighting capitalism, and looking absolutely flawless while doing it.

A trip that puts you on a collision course with the one who is to be your mate as prophesied in your dreams. Warnings of the coming war that you have been secretly told you'll need to stop. An invasion force masquerading as pirates. Combine the three and an empire is born. Mark Alexander's destiny awaits.

Book 4 of the Westward Confederation Series

Prompt 263: First line: "It's behind me, isn't it."

Centaurus 4 is the latest mission to Proxima Centauri b. Three attempts to reach the distant planet were unmanned. The main reason for that was that Proxima Centauri b (PC-b) is 4.22 light-years (1.3 parsecs) from Earth. Recent advancements in space travel have reduced the travel time to 153 days at ten times light speed. The story takes place roughly two hundred years in our future.

Centaurus 4 has a crew of 16. The first three members of the crew have recently exited the ship and started their survey of the immediate area. What they experience is shocking, to say the least.

Even far from old Earth it's Valentine's Day.

Wanna be my Valentinerian?