Makeshift Stories Original Science Fiction

Hosted ByAlan V Hare

Journey into the Improbable

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Skin Deep

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After narrowly evading capture Maya and Tim arrive in New Hudson only to run into the man who had been following them in Waystation. The man claims that he is working with Maya’s parents, but neither Tim or Maya trust him.

All Inclusive

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Alonzo is forced to take his ailing, wealthy mother and her robotic wheel chair to an ultra expensive all inclusive health spa. The doctors and specialists told him that the legendary algae baths, unique to the exclusive beach resort of Vida Del Mar,

Dreams of a Life

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Aura lives with her mother and brothers making a modest living from a concession stand. Her life in the themed dome park called Timber World is thrown into chaos when an unexpected event forces her to leave to save her family’s livelihood.

Caught!

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After discovering more planted incriminating evidence against them on the café’s computer, Maya and Tim decide to flee when net regulatory agents show up. In an attempt to find Maya’s parents they take the train to new Hudson Beach.

Lifeboat

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With the first Moon landings in the late 1960’s many may have felt that a Mars mission was no too far off, but since that time no human has left near Earth orbit. On the 200th anniversary of the first moon landing an international mission is pois…

The Shadows

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Maya and Tim live in a future that is powered by coal, kids over 8 must work for a living, and reality is not what it seems. Tim’s parents died after an apparently random traffic accident, leaving him alone, and in debt for the medical expenses.

Return to Start

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An astronomer, watching for near earth objects, makes a shocking discovery which forces Adrian out from hiding. Adrian realizes that events in the past have lead to a disaster in the present. He is forced to intervene and change history,

C-11’s Quest

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An automated planetary mission goes awry when it is hit by solar flares. Unit C-11 one of the landing group’s communication nodes attempts to repair its damaged memory with information erroneously downloaded from the mission’s orbiter.

Universe 8.1

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Lambent Nape Nor works at the Infinite Macro Cosmic Reality Corporation as the assistant head of product design and customer services for Universe 8. Despite Lambent’s concerns management insists on a last minute change to an already rushed update.

Invasion

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A 500 hundred year old terraforming project is derailed by an imminent invasion. No one, except a small group of scientists, understands the true nature of the threat and its real implications for the future of their civilization. –

Hole in Space – Part 2

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After being sucked into a wormhole, created when Luki used Len’s unfinished hyper dry modification to the ship’s clothes dryer, the crew of the Hyper Nova are stranded on a strange planet called Atma, which is being smothered in lost laundry.

Perspectives & the Mission

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This month we present to two short stories. In first one called, Perspectives, a routine mission is suddenly changed by a chance encounter in depth space. This story evolved out of a one of David’s writing assignments at school. –

Laika – Dog From Space

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A passing celestial being is trapped by earth’s gravity and dragged reluctantly to its surface in the middle of a Moscow winter. Stranded in the body of a dog the alien being is forced to intervene in the early Russian Space program in order to get a …

Hole in Space

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Life on board the Hyper Nova begins to settle down into a routine until a number of random events collide with one of Len’s pet projects causing the ship and its crew to get sucked into a hole in space.

The Shimmering Field

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Time can seem to slow down when there is nothing to do, and this was particularly true for Abeo who had been forced to endure a summer without her friends on a lonely research station. Her father and the other adults were too distracted by some unusu…

Europa Cafe

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Maya and Tim work at the Europa Cafe in Way Station – a place out of time where things are run by steam, trains are the main means of transportation and adults don’t seem to remember what really happened in the past. –

The Boy Who Loved Candy

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Sometimes you can love something just a little too much. Under the influence of a mysterious dream Marco discovers that he can’t stop eating candy and begins to grow to alarming proportions. Program Notes And Credits –

Hyper Nova

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Luki is given his first true command of a star ship and is immediately plunged into a major mission. With the help of his less than loyal crew he completes the assignment but inadvertently creates a new potential problem.

Voluntold

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During what turns out to be an extremely slow side trip to the home planet of two rogue space probes, Ada receives a coded message that orders them to stop what they are doing and launch a rescue mission to pick up an important executive officer.

The Endgame

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When an unexpected message from deep space turns out to be a Triffal ship Amos must change his plans and as a result he finds himself with less than a day to locate his missing artificial intelligence, wrap up his work and be extracted by the rescue te…