End of It All We got them out of there. Sydney Hallgren's quick thinking, finding the right commands for delaying the alien ship's departure through the wormhole, gave the team enough time to leave the ship. It's ironic, sad maybe, that when we found evidence of intelligent alien life, it scared us more than it excited us. Was it the way they looked more like predators than friends?

"End of It All" #nanonano #flashfiction

Moving Forward or Going Back? We thought it was a moon, or an asteroid, orbiting Wu Xiu VI. So we didn't pay it much mind. Five years into the mission we were getting tired of not finding answers. Who were they? What were they doing? Why did they stop? After spending a month in this quadrant it was decided that we'd move on, travel back towards the relay, maybe even prepare to return to the Milky Way.

"Moving Forward or Going Back?" #nanonano #flashfiction

Behind The Scenes This moon is the third laboratory we've found. They all show those weird gravity signals. A super gravity well. We don't know what it's for. We can't access it. Which might be a blessing in disguise. Anyone going in would be crushed instantly. We are intrigued though. What is their purpose? There aren't any visible instruments connected to them. A large door in a cave.

"Behind The Scenes" #nanonano #flashfiction

Lay To Rest The dreams come to me every night: a barren land, Gods descending from the sky, lightning and ice. They speak a language I don't understand, but I understand them. It's like you hear the patter of rain drops on the leaves, and know that you have to seek shelter or you'll be soaked. In my dreams I see her too, her tumbling shape embraces the worlds we visit, like a mother hugging her pregnant belly.

"Lay To Rest" #nanonano #flashfiction

Wishing Well… Well, Wishing The last thing I see is her pale face and outstretched hand. Her eyes are large, scared. Her hand reaching for me in vain. Her whole being speaking of love at last sight. Then I am falling in darkn…

"Wishing Well... Well, Wishing" #nanonano #flashfiction
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Another Turn Around a Sun I don't know which gift was worse... Anton grinned at me, handing me a micro drive (which later turned out to have very spicy novels on it). Paulo came empty handed, but afterwards, when I started my tablet, I found that he had hacked my profile and "cleaned up my messy folders". I can't find anything right now. Sora gave me a liptint (unopened), but in a shade of pink I could never pull off.

"Another Turn Around a Sun" #nanonano #flashfiction

Memories In Ice I found the shard buried in the ice. It came loose as I drilled for ice samples. Bottle green and deep sea blue, the colour shifted when the light hit it. It looked like glass, but echoed with a beautiful tone when I tapped on it with my fingernail. So some sort of crystal, I guess. I really didn't think much of it, I just pocked it and went on with my day.

"Memories in Ice" #nanonano #flashfiction

Do We Want Answers? This is dumb. Why are we going to a moon? Everyone knows Nana Borelli is weird. But. They manned a shuttle and sent us to the moon anyway. She is basically vibrating off her seat as the moon takes up more of the view screen. So sure we'll find something more than rock and dust and the vacuum of space. …

"Do We Want Answers?" #nanonano #flashfiction

A Glimpse of Aurora Sunsets look all alike.Light, colour, horizon, clouds. The wind sings the same tunes. The trees, mountains, valleys wherewith it dances. I smell earth, on another planet. I taste ocean tears.I bleed the same.And water the flowers.Dreaming of home. I am lost again. - log entry by Aurora Hughes during the survey of Pavonis II.

"A Glimpse of Aurora" #nanonano #poetry

An Unknown Answer I sometimes ponder this mission. From up here the planets we visit seem so small and similar, and yet so strange and alien. The large view screens in the forward lounge show me Pavonis II. The cameras in the hull record the planet as we orbit the equator. The reports tell of alien life, but no signs of civilisation. Like all the other planets we've surveyed in the Cartwheel Galaxy.

"An Unknown Answer" #nanonano #flashfiction

Truth, Lies and Maybes I think I have always dealt in cartomancy. My mother, and her mother, and her mother, and her mother, have all shuffled the deck and told people the truth, or lies, or the future, or the past, or life, or death. Mother told me we read the strings of faith, the vibrations in the universe, the facial expressions of our clients, and a good fortune teller can get the client to walk out of there absolutely convinced of every word.

"Truth, Lies and Maybes" #nanonano #flashfiction

Feeding Time The winged beasts are nesting out on a large rock formation at the mouth of the bay. They seem to mate for at least a season, if not for life. The male is a black storm cloud grey, while the female is more of a brownish colour. They lay eggs, and the hatchlings seem to need a lot of food. The parents take turns in flying far out to sea to catch this planets version of fish.

"Feeding Time" #nanonano #flashfiction

Seeing Things Clearly Anton watched her walk out of the trees. Graceful, like a deer, but nowhere near as skittish, rather with the mind of a wolf. He had this feeling of having fucked up without the possibility of unfucking it, but he couldn't put his finger on it, nor could he think of a time where he slipped up. There was no way she could know, not now, not with Alexandra switching to the other survey team.

"Seeing Things Clearly" #nanonano #flashfiction

There Are Signs I feel it in my bones. Sucking air through my teeth, trying to not cry out in pain. Muscles taut, cramping. ~I~have~to~get~off~this~platform~ The cavern was a surprise. The obviously constructed pl…

"There Are Signs" #nanonano #flashfiction
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"A Song for Us" #nanonano #flashfiction
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Spires of Ice The icy wind snatched the breath from my mouth. Professor Xue had said this was late spring here, but it felt like early winter. Being so close to the glacier probably wasn't helping. I tucked my chin in and got back to work. Drilling for soil samples was hard work in the half-thawed ground, the drill would get stuck and only by jiggling it back and forth for what felt like an age, had it continue down into the different layers of soil.

"Spires of Ice" #nanonano #flashfiction

Wind in the Grass The grasslands are breathtaking. I haven't seen wide spaces like these anywhere but on vids. I try picturing tall skyscrapers and neon lights, but the never-ending grass is too flat, too soft and naturally green for my brain to picture anything else than what I'm seeing. I sip my tea. I should get ready for the day, but there's no hurry.

"Wind in the Grass" #nanonano #flashfiction

Crossroads to Space "Crossroads to Space" #nanonano #flashfiction

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"Crossroads to Space" #nanonano #flashfiction

Lost Signals I don't know why I even bothered. Such a waste of time, space and emotions. And regret. Our journey is a 5 year round trip to the Cartwheel galaxy, at least, probably more. I think they said 5 years to make it look good. Five is an even uneven number. It doesn't sound too long, nor does it sound like a throwaway mission.

"Lost Signals" #nanonano #notnanowrimo #flashfiction

Well it's your #nanonano #notnanowrimo I was just having fun with it trying to parody Star Trek in a 60's serial style 🤣

Beach Day The sky is blinding blue over the glistening sea. The desert rolled over dunes and skipped turning into a beach, having our vehicle get stuck halfway into the water. Onnimanni muttered a long phrase in Finnish and jumped into the surf to try to assess the damage. Noomi and I looked at each other. She gestured towards dry land and when I didn't move, she shrugged her shoulders and waded ashore.

"Beach Day" #nanonano #notnanowrimo

Real Gravity is Weird There are no signs of any settlement on the planet. And still there was something that had us set the course for here. A hum in the background noise. A whisper of a song in the readings. My bunk mate Maadick is sure it was all just a fever dream from one of the astrophysicists in one of the space observatories back in the Milky Way.

"Real Gravity is Weird" #nanonano #notnanowrimo #flashfiction

Not Bluebells The clearing is a perfect circle. We checked. It's actually a perfect circle. So it's clearly man made. Well, no. Not man made. Something else made. Unknown made. Alien made. But we're the aliens here. So I don't know what to call it. Artificial seems wrong too, because all the trees and the grass and the delicate blossoms are all natural.

"Not Bluebells" #nanonano #notnanowrimo

Night Clings To Me I dream of her. She's doing her no-gravity routine in some sort of glass dome. There are stars and not stars outside of the dome. The not stars scare me. I wake up as she tosses her head and her long hair comes free of its bun, and the last thing I see are the blonde strands fan out around her tumbling shape.

"Night Clings To Me" #nanonano #notnano

May the Force be with you!

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Enjoy your weekend!

Choose 20 TV Shows, Mini Series or Limited Series that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

(09/20) I've missed 9 days before.
No biggie, I'll catch up #NanoNano

Fireball XL5 (1960s)