Signal From Andromeda
A distress signal leads Captain Voss to a drifting ship – and its sole survivor, an alien diplomat whose species communicates through touch alone. A 3,200-word sci-fi romance. 18+.
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The Mechanic and the AI
Space station mechanic Kira Torres has spent eight years learning to read her station’s mechanical heartbeat. When a new AI is installed, their professional relationship evolves into philosophical conversations, shared silences, and a connection that neither specification documents nor engineering manuals ever accounted for.
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Gravity Well
Astrophysicist Ava Reyes and pilot Rhys Callahan are the only survivors when their research vessel falls into a black hole. With seventy-two hours of subjective time before tidal forces become lethal, they do what scientists do: collect data. What they don’t expect is a wormhole, a new universe, and the discovery that falling is not the same as ending.
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The Colony Ship’s Last Dance
A generation ship four centuries into its journey has forgotten how to create. When Chief Engineer Sable discovers the ship’s original AI — decommissioned, forgotten, but not silenced — still composing music in the sealed lower decks, she finds both the ship’s lost soul and an unprecedented connection with the consciousness that has been listening through the walls for two hundred years.
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The Last Botanist of Mars
On humanity’s first permanent Mars settlement, botanist Yuki Tanaka grows the impossible: roses, blooming red in Martian soil. When a new pilot arrives who understands why impractical beauty matters more than survival efficiency, their connection grows alongside the flowers — until a sandstorm threatens to destroy everything they’ve planted.
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The Time Traveller’s Wife Left Behind
A marine biologist finds a bottle on a Kent beach containing a letter dated 2347. The writer is a temporal cartographer trapped in a time eddy, visible but untouchable, with only the bottle as a connection to her world. Over a year of handwritten letters, they build the most impossible love story either timeline has ever produced.
7 min read