Stranded In Space Novels & Stories

Emma I stared out into the starry sky. I was surrounded by darkness. The small blue planet I used to call home floated millions and millions of miles away from me. I rested my forehead against the cold glass of the ship. I was alone up here. I'd been alone up here for years. After Earth was nearly destroyed by a man-made disaster, my boss sent a crew and me up here to find another place to live. We were told not to come back until we found somewhere safe, somewhere to call home.

"It's okay. You're safe." I buried my face in his chest, my voice muffled. "How did they even find this place?" Hector was quiet for a moment. "I'll handle it." True to his word, he took care of it. I didn't know what he did or said, but my family never showed up at our door again. Life finally settled into a peaceful rhythm. I managed to find a new job in Solvane. The company was small, but the culture was incredibly supportive.

She thinks that this is probably the best thing for both of them. “Let’s have a stranger with benefits contract.” She gave him a sweet smile. Yes, that’s right! That’s the best for both of us. The Strangers With Benefits Contract. Apollo Justice

‎I stepped into the building, nodded at security, and entered the elevator, still checking my phone. ‎No reply. ‎Still nothing. ‎I told myself to stop. ‎The elevator doors opened. ‎Laughter echoed from the hallway. ‎The kind of laughter people make when they forget where they are. ‎It was loud. ‎Too loud. ‎That alone was strange. ‎My people knew when to work and when to be serious. I had a strict policy about that, and I didn’t joke with it. ‎I slowed my steps but didn’t stop. ‎Maybe someone had just made a joke.

The red dust swirled around us, obscuring the view as we hurtled blindly through the labyrinthine corridors. Behind us, the sounds of pursuit faded away. Either we had lost them, or they were too cautious to follow us into the unknown. Relief washed over me in waves, so powerful it almost felt like a physical sensation. We were safe… for now. But the thrill of escape was short-lived. As the dust settled, the full gravity of our situation hit me. We were stranded on a hostile planet, in a rickety rover, with a rogue scientist as our guide. "Where are we going?" I asked, my voice barely above a whisper.

The crimson glow of the Dying Star system pulsed on the viewport, a stark contrast to the familiar blue expanse of explored space. Decades etched lines on Kairos' once youthful face, and Anya's silver hair shimmered like a fallen star. Yet, their determination remained unwavering as their vessel pierced the system's necrotic atmosphere. The distress call originated from a single, desolate planet – Aethel, once a thriving metropolis, now a wasteland shrouded in perpetual twilight. The echoes spoke of a civilization clinging to their last vestiges of energy, their dependence on a mysterious source finally reaching its breaking point.

Just the scattered, blinking chaos of a society stumbling through the dark, wondering where the lights went. Sarah joined him, stumbling onto the gravelly surface of the roof. She was looking up, toward the sky. The stars were out—bright, uncaring, and entirely organic. No interference. No satellites beaming instructions. Just the vacuum of space, staring back at them. "We did it," she whispered. Anji looked at his boots. The soles were half-melted, stuck to the gravel. "We didn't fix anything, Sarah. We just made it everyone else's problem now."

The dream vanished. Maya woke up on a metal floor inside a pod. Her eyes hurt. Her lungs felt the salt of sea air. She pushed the pod door open. Thousands of pods were opening around her. People were crawling out coughing and crying. They were touching wet sand. "We made it " Dr. Aris whispered. She climbed out of a pod nearby. She looked at the giant, wheel of the satellite in the water. "We are home." Maya did not look at the people.

3 years seems legit, the journey through space and time is of course need some long time as The Great Attractor is outside the Milky way and Andromeda galaxy, far far in the darkness, or so it seems. "The space ships are loaded with enough foods and daily supplies for 5 years period of time and there's farm inside the spaceship that could produce enough fruits and vegetables every month, if there's no more questions may all the passengers and crew to step up into the stage to capture this moment." With that we went up stage and take a picture together, shortly afterwards the meeting is dismissed and we immediately go to the place we rest at the Eagle building still on this stationary complex

My head ached, my shoulder throbbed and I was filled with the strange urge to throw up. “Wh… where…?" I mumbled as my head swayed back and forth. "Where the hell… are we?" My gaze traveled up, locking onto the map spanning across the front screen. My shoulders slumped and a tired sigh escaped my throat. “Fuck.” We were in restricted black-zone space. Suddenly–expectedly–another set of alarms erupted, shrill and louder than before. A robotic voice, not A.R.I.A’s, followed: AUTOMATIC PURSUIT PROTOCOL ENGAGED. UNMANNED DROID SENTINELS INBOUND.