First Light Rising
I am Saskia, and I lost a friend on 29 July 2047. During his teenage years, nobody believed Tom. We all were wrong. When Tom turned twenty-four, MI5 uncovered the truth, which set the world on fire: Tom was no longer ageing.
Earth was not ready for an immortal: mighty governments tried to hide Tom, and the world was preparing for war over the secret of immortality. I brokered a truce - one humankind had to accept or face extinction: sending Tom 150 years into the future on an interstellar mission.
On 29 July 2047, Tom left Earth onboard the Icarus. Six months later, the Icarus is empty. What the world doesn’t know is that Tom has changed the mission. Only I know: immortality is not his only secret.
From Outcast to Immortal: An Immortal Sci‑Fi Origin Story
Meet Thumee, a young woman on a desert planet, who is stung by a GoRak—a creature whose venom is said to be incurable. Facing certain death, Thumee discovers she can enter a meditative trance called the Dive, where she manipulates Light to purge poison and keep her body alive without food, water, or shelter.
But the Dive comes with a devastating cost: it distorts time. When Thumee vanishes, she can reappear decades—sometimes centuries—later, severed from everyone and everything she knew. As her reality fractures, she learns the Dive isn’t only a mental state—it’s a connection. That link leads her to IlaRia, an alien traveller who reveals Thumee’s so‑called “eccentricity” is actually an immortal heritage.
This episode bridges five millennia of history and rewrites Thumee’s identity: she isn’t the demon her village feared—she’s part of an ancient interstellar family- the Kindred of Old.
Speculative Fiction - Short Story (about 5,000 words) - Kindred of Old Universe
Break of dawn
During all her childhood, TaaRell was different, but when she was becoming of age and sent into the desert, destiny was waiting for her.
[spin-off from “First Light Leading”, 2936 words]
Ever after
A ghost story rooted at Kings Arthur’s court
Alternate History, short story
England, Camelot, 510 AD, the most glorious King, made invincible by a sword, and yet he wished he had died instead. Evil found its way in his heart, and a great unjustness was born, too great to heal through time.
Wales, Castle of Cearleon, 1922, the spectre strikes again, and a search party tries to unravel a long lost dark secret. Will they succeed in time to save a life?
Mystery from the Bronze Age
A routine exaction of a mound in Denmark in 1920 becomes an archaeological sensation in 2015.
