Writing Prompt # 91

Marie woke up in a strange place,again. Well, at least it seemed strange to her. She was not sure that it was really a strange place, it could have been a quite normal place for all she knew, but to her is was quite strange. She had been told that the occasional case of amnesia would come from the years in stasis, but every time she woke up in a strange place it disturbed her. What had she been doing? Where had she been? Was any of this real? Certainly The technology here seemed like magic, so maybe it really was in some way, or maybe she was just really behind the times.

Daily writing Prompts #78

Today's prompt is a setting with a few people, but mostly a setting.

The crew stood on the barren rock and looked around. There was nothing there but rock as far as they eye could see. No green, no blue, no nothing, but gray rock, and even grayer sand. The only thing that broke up the landscape, other than them, was the hulk of ship that used to be theirs.

Daily writing Prompts #70

This is a prompt I suggested for part of a Galley Table topic. If you use this topic, keep your eyes on twitter / facebook /google + and come join us as we talk about this topic.

Humans have colonized 20 or so other planets. Faster than light travel has not been accomplished, and the planets are far enough apart that it take 20/30 years to get from on to the next. The last planet colonized sends a ship back to the other planets as a kind of cultural exchange. The plan is for the ship to make a loop, and come back to the last planet. The ship carries, unknown to the people on board, a disease that is killing the colonies it visits.

Daily writing Prompts #69

"System failure."
"Where?"
"Engines, life support, power systems, safety systems, automatic life pods, fire suppression systems, thruster control, waste management, environmental, shielding, hull integrity verification systems, navigation, communications, guidance and control,"
"Computer, give me a list of things that have not failed."
"This list might be lengthy do you wish to continue?"
"Yes."
"Hydraulics."
"Yup, that was a long list computer."
"Please repeat request."

Daily writing Prompts #67

The captain's sneer on the view screen was all it took for Wallace to understand, if he didn't get this issue resolved, he had better find an airlock and quick. Because what the captain would do to him would be far worse than the cold of space.

Daily writing Prompts #66

Bob looked at the wind swept ground. It looked like it had been scrubbed with a scouring pad. There was nothing left but the bare earth. He laughed to himself at that thought. They were about as far from anything that could be called earth as any man had ever been, but they still called it that.