Science Fiction / Flash Fiction: Beyond Time

A fellow author, T. Alan Horne, once lamented on Twitter that so many science fiction stories featured scenes from beyond time or in space where the normal rules of space and time don't exist, but that so much of that temporal fiction followed traditional sequential rules.  I wondered what a story from a setting like that might be like.  



While this blog is typically dedicated to zombie horror, here's my attempt at breaking the temporal rules of science fiction.  It's a little bit of flash fiction from ---

Beyond Time

Turn the wrench. 

Forget the bleeding. 

Dirk screamed, "I'm hit." 

Tethered. 

Thank God for the self-sealing suit. 

Dirk had to repair the jump drive. 

Blood spattered the visor.

Spinning in space. 

Aaaaah. The pain was excruciating. 

Incoming fletchette rocket darts. 

Hard to see.

Turn the wrench. 

Forget the bleeding.

Dirk screamed, "I'm hit."
Tethered.

 

Public Domain photo from George Eastman House / No restrictions