Tag: Science Fiction

29 May 2025: Cold Contact by Torn MacAlester

Cold Contact by Torn MacAlester as imagined by Grok

In the unchart­ed depths of space, 250 light years from Earth, Frank ‘Coot­er’ Ross and his sharp-wit­ted mechan­ic, Cathy Soren­son, pilot the Hootie Bird—a scrap­py, two-per­son scout­ing ves­sel built for the stars. Tasked with spy­ing on a secre­tive UTAN colony, they stum­ble across a chill­ing trans­mis­sion hint­ing at alien con­tact. As Coot­er digs through his […]

Monsters in the Dark, A New Short Story by Torn Macalester

In the frigid, unchart­ed expanse of the Kuiper Belt, where the Sun is but a dis­tant pin­prick in an end­less void, Ian Baird stands alone—a soli­tary care­tak­er of a deep-space radio tele­scope array, tasked with lis­ten­ing for whis­pers of alien life. But the dark­ness here is more than just the absence of light; it’s a […]

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