Science Fiction Short Stories

By Celesta Thiessen

Science Fiction Short Stories is a collection of eight, inspirational science fiction stories: Home, The Sacrifice, The Same Stars, Siren Song, What’cha Makin in the Barn?, Dragons, Fate’s Gift and Truth.

Home:
Stella, an unplanned child, now fifteen years old, is left alone on the space station when the crew leaves to return home. Struggling to survive, she soon learns that an apocalyptic disaster has struck the earth. No replacement crew will be coming. The only comfort she finds is in her dreams. But could the vivid images be real?

Truth:
In the white-washed Truth society, under the dome, they don’t acknowledge dissenting rebels like her. But when her life is threatened, Mark, a devout follower of the Truth offers her refuge. She’s always had a thing for Mark and now she needs him like never before. Nameless and with no memory of her past, she’s afraid and in desperate need of companionship...but he won’t even look at her that way. Mark says he’ll help her get away. But even if she does escape the dome, what will she find outside...and how will she be able to face it alone?

This book is rated 13+

• Language: English
• Publisher: Celesta Thiessen
• Release date: Jan 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301867479

Celesta Thiessen

I live in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada with my husband and two young daughters. We're homeschoolers and entrepreneurs. My husband and I make iOS apps and I write stories. Being a writer is magical - spinning nothing into stories - stories that can light the way to a different world.You can connect with me on Faceboook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorCelesta

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SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORIES

Celesta Thiessen

Copyright 2013 Celesta Thiessen

Home

The Sacrifice

The Same Stars

Siren Song

What’cha Makin in the Barn?

Dragons

Fate’s Gift

Truth

Home

Through tears, she saw them go, taking away with them all she knew. Stella had been born here, on this moon station that circled an alien planet so far from Earth. And she hadn’t been part of the plan. An accident. A mistake. If they took her with them, the air on the ship would run out when they were two weeks away from the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. So they left her behind. Alone.

The giant plastic bubble where she lived groaned as the little ship, that carried her parents and the other scientists, fired its way upward. Stella watched as the light from the ship’s engines got smaller and smaller and then winked out of sight. The girl swiped at her eyes. At fifteen years of age, she was too old for such a display. But it was hard. She dried her eyes on her sleeve. At least she wouldn’t die. At least they had done that much for her. And she wouldn’t be bored. No. She’d be far too busy for that.

Stella stood and fixed her medium brown hair into a braid behind her head. The crew had ignored instructions to set the station to hibernate, so the air would continue to circulate. But now Stella had to perform all the maintenance routines. An easy workload for 15 people. A ten-hour-a-day job for one. Stella brushed the dirt from her oversized uniform. And she had her poems, too. Now that she was alone, she was free to make up as many poems as she wanted while she worked. Her mother had always scolded her for ‘muttering nonsense’.

Her mother had named her Stella, after the stars. The constant blackness strewn with pinpricks of white light was always visible through the dome. They lived on the dark side of the moon and away from the view of the sun. They would be safe from radiation that way, her mother had explained. The adults had gone on four trips down to the planet during her lifetime. The purpose of the Aries moon station was to assess the planet as a possible colony world for the human race. Even after 20 years of study, their results had proved inconclusive. Some scientists from Earth had wanted Stella to be taken to the planet and left there as part of the ongoing study of that world. But Stella had begged them not to do it. She couldn’t imagine being marooned on a strange world, alone. The dome was familiar. To her, it was home.

Stella set to work making her rounds through the large dome. For fifteen years, she had lived with them. She thought surely her mother or father would stay with her. But they told her she was old enough to take care of herself. They wanted to go home. A new crew would return to the station in 10 years. Strangers. Until then, she could communicate with her parents and the other scientists by email. The messages would take longer and longer to go between them as the ship got farther and farther away.

Stella was excited to hear the chirp of a message coming in the very next morning.

Stella,

We’ve received word from Earth. The email states that political tensions have been mounting for some time. The Western Confederation is under attack. A nuclear war now encompasses most of the globe. They will send us updates as they have time.

The email was sent approximately 18 months ago and has taken this long to reach us. I will pass on further messages as we get them.

Mother

What would happen now? Stella