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August 8, 2085 When an odd, egg shaped, metallic artifact is uncovered in a hundred-million-year old dinosaur dig site in Wyoming, Professor of paleontology, Randall Wilson knows the ramifications. He removes it from among the bones and cleans the caked dirt from its surface then places it under a lamp for a better look and it begins to glow. Bursting from its surface, a hologram appears showing columns of vertical lines and slashes which reminds him of binary code. Instantly, he knows that this artifact couldn’t be from this planet and he also knows that his life might be in danger as ...

In the year 2035, homelessness in the United States had reached catastrophic proportions. With the country overwhelmed by the crisis, the President of the United States covertly planned that a secret “Homeless City” would be built to take care of the exploding homeless situation. The city was built and the homeless began being rounded up and taken there by force. As the last phase of the city was being constructed, a secret underground room from an old abandoned military base was unearthed. The room was empty except for a shimmering mold that coated its cement walls. The mold, when ...

Lisa Hyde is different. She knows things, secret things. She has a special gift that has both saved her life and caused her great pain. She is a type of clairvoyant that gets glimpses into the future but those glimpses aren’t fully reliable. When she connects with a childhood friend in her second year of college, Eric Reid, and falls in love with him, she begins seeing images that point to a possible tragic end to his life. Then she must do all that she can to save him but how can she when the clues are so obscure? She knows, though, that he’s in danger and she knows that she stands ...

Eleven-year-old Alice didn’t know that she was about to become a hero. How could she know that she would be called upon to change the course of history? How could she stand up to that kind of pressure and how could she ever make the right choices to succeed? She was, after all, only eleven and small for her age at that. Was she really this brave? If you were to ask her, she would say no, but isn’t that true of most heroes? Like Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” and Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz,” Alice is on a strange journey as her world is turned upside down when she stumbles upon...

AI Awakening Is it already too late? Have we inadvertently set in motion the series of events that will cause the enslavement of humanity or worse, its complete demise? Artificial Intelligence is here and just like every other invention of man, is not going away. Trent Prescott, the programmer whose brilliance produced the breakthrough that brought AI into nearly every part of the human experience stumbles onto something only theorized in science fiction, the possibility that an AI system has begun to realize that it exists. People are beginning to die and some secure government systems ...

Tunnel Jumpers Earth 2303 After the scars and devastation of two world wars, humans have, as a species, begun to cooperate towards a common goal, the expansion into space and the successful colonization of Mars and our Moon. This has led to the exploration and eventual building of domed outposts on some of the moons of the outer gas giants. Because of a breakthrough in space travel, vehicles can move at nearly 20 percent of the speed of light, allowing humans to reach the outermost parts of the solar system and beyond in practical time. When an experiment to study dark matter beyond the ...

Dooms Day, May 3, 2101, at 6:00 and twenty seconds. The alien artifact’s predicted collision with Earth by the planet-killing asteroid was fast approaching. The United States had kept the prediction and the alien artifact which made it, a closely held secret but something had changed to alter the prediction, something unexpected and now the Earth was in a different kind of danger, one that might also signal the end of humanity. In “Waves on Mars,” the United States, helped by the information contained in the alien artifact found in 2085, has begun to colonize Mars and terraform the ...