Little SciFi Stories on the Go

Fingers curved around the cub's midsection, palms bracing its fall as if gravity itself obeyed her command. Species like theirs catalog fear and instinct, but not the subtle defiance of a human who does not merely react, but preamps. The cub's tail flicked, its small body coiling and readiness to leap. Because humans understand something predators do not, sometimes survival is teaching as much as...

The clink of metal on metal echoed through the bustling market, and suddenly, every predator, merchant, and bystander froze, watching as a single human bent over a handful of coins. This human, she can assess value, detect weakness, and predict movement in ways no predator, no merchant, no government, can fathom. A weapon that didn't roar, didn't snap, didn't even move quickly. But the market didn...

All in hyper-emotional 4K Rackol, people became addicted to feeling what others felt Sarah Velasquez, a 26-year-old neuro-therapist, logged into CloudMind one night to revisit a childhood. Other users had access the same memory dot all claimed they didn't upload it, Sarah contacted CloudMind support. The next day she received a private message, we didn't access the memory, the memory accessed us....

Alien doctor laughed at human biology until the test results came back. The Interstellar Medical Institute had treated thousands of species, each with their own biology, each with their own limits. When the injured human soldier had been brought in after a battlefield evacuation, Zelvarne had laughed. The human, he was already injured, already bleeding, but still moving, still fighting. After the...

By decree of the Galactic Compliance Authority, the species known as humanity must immediately submit a complete declaration of all weapons currently in their possession. In the vast marble chamber of the Galactic Assembly, alien delegates leaned forward as the human ambassador stood. Instead, the human ambassador pressed a small console, uploading the full list now. You should be far more concern...

Designation improvised combat platform, Threxill replied, laughter rippled through, the chamber, then died instantly. Threxill's eyes darkened, that's what we thought. Entire sections of Threxill's fleet vanished in cascading explosions, formations collapsed, command lines broke. The hollow feed showed human fighters diving through the destruction, not avoiding danger, charging into it, using expl...

Alien Captain asked what scares humans, the answer terrified her. The human didn't hesitate, and that was what frightened her the most. Captain Raketh had asked it casually, a routine psychological inquiry. Their ship glided through contested space, where entire fleets had vanished, where ancient empires refused to tread, and yet, humans had volunteered to patrol it. Raketh's blood ran cold. Becom...

The training room didn't survive the round. At the center of the chamber, the human stood alone, breathing heavy, sweat dripping, bruised and smiling. The human didn't wait. And as the cadets stared down at the destruction below, one terrifying truth burned into their minds. You don't test a human's limits. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/little-scifi-stories-o...

If Earth survives until dawn, high over Lord Kuresh proclaimed, his voice echoing across the galaxy, the Dominion will withdraw from contested space for 100 cycles. Orbital bombardment lit Earth's atmosphere like a second sun. Because humans weren't fighting like a unified army. Because humans didn't fight fair. And as the dominion withdrew, as their empire fractured under the weight of its own ar...

A million alien soldiers landed, not one walked away. The sky over earth turned black, not with clouds, but with ships, millions of them, they descended through the atmosphere like falling mountains, massive invasion carriers, armored drop, barges, endless columns of troop transports burning crimson against the horizon. Hidden doors slid aside across entire city blocks, and from beneath the earth,...

The girl didn't step back, didn't flinch. Slowly, he turned toward the sky and saw them, ships, black, silent, appearing out of nowhere, layer by layer, filling the void above the planet, not chaotic, perfectly aligned, a formation so precise, it looked like a blade pointed directly at the surface. The girl looked up at the sky at the impossible fleet hovering above, then back at the thug. The fle...

They invited the human to laugh at him and ended up begging him to stop. Every cycle, a so-called death-worlder species was invited, tested, measured, marked, most failed, spectacularly. This year's candidate, the announcer declared, voice dripping with amusement, originates from a class 12 death-world designation, Earth, laughter rippled across the chamber, gravity exceeding safe limits, hostile...