Earth
“Gross’’I looked up in mild annoyance. “You can’t just say that’’.“But it’s gross’’He had a point.The alien; indeed, this was first contact, stumbled out of its ship in a horrifyingly ungainly shuffle
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The Chrono-Enigma
Ancient Egypt, estimated 2562 BC (Hieroglyphic Translation)In the 27th year of Pharaoh Khufu’s reign, on the feast day of Horus, a majestic barque of the gods, wreathed in starlight and trailing cosmic dust, appeared on the river Nile, floating above...
Snap! : A Short Story
Cyril Trafford sat, hunched at his desk, scratching away at a notebook. Wearily, he straightened up in his chair—a rickety old thing, armless and unforgiving to his aching back. He rubbed his eyes with mildly ink-stained fingers and blinked blearily ...