A young ensign battles a monster on an unexplored planet to save her life and the ship she’s pledged her loyalty to. (PART THREE)
Category: stories
original stories by Emily Faith
Love Is Like a Star
Love is like a starIt beckons from afarThrows its crazy lightInto your darkest night Stars Are Queens flames coruscating outward, offering a forceful invitationcounting you among a historyof explorers on heedless reckless embarkationsthey hope to count you among the corpses of countless discoverers delving into every aspect of a mysterybut sharper, sharper, the lies are glaringnow […]
Fibonacci Monster: Part Two
A young ensign must battle a monster on an unknown planet to save her life and the ship she’s pledged her loyalty to. (PART TWO)
Acrostic Series: #2 Voyage
Inspired by this instrumental: Epic Futuristic Space Music Mix. Epic Sci Fi Music. UEM. Every morning I wake up, I set my mind on the day’s events, butXenization is never my first thought, though I live it inside.People pass me by, their cares and loves and fears galaxies apart from mine.Loneliness clouds my thoughts, and […]
Acrostic Series: #1 Portal
My new poetry series: acrostics, beginning with piece #1, called Portal.
Fibonacci Monster
A piece of flash fiction based on a dream I had a few days ago: running from a Fibonacci monster.
Ghosts
More getting-into-character poetry. This one is Anazor Revek, a side character in my sci-fi novel who is an empath and a counselor.
Hey
Hey—here’s a half blog post, half poetry.
Rainfall
To my grandpa—I love you always. An unacknowledged fear divides us, holds us back with steel, rolled and cold, drawing the warmth of our hands every time we dare touch the edge. We keep a safe distance. We observe each other, one hand outstretched, the rain of the skies falling all around us. The rain […]
Where Stars Are Dim
I’m immersing myself into the characters who are plotting to destroy the Intergalactic Republic in my novel. Here’s a piece of getting-into-character poetry.
