Colony 7 Estate
Glenna Swenson had better things to do with a day off than fight strangers over furniture.
Alien world stories
Alien world stories, from quick reads to long series. Most alien world stories here sit in sci-fi & fantasy. Reads run 22 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Frost Detour, Shift of Ivory and Sundown Wanderer. Readers usually start with “Colony 7 Estate” and “The Second Trick”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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01 02 The Second Trick
Cherie Gaines was twenty-eight years old and she could tell you the exact contents of her lunch cooler for the next eleven days without…
03 Neptune's Second Sunrise
The shuttle doors opened and Triton Station hit me all at once.
04 Cut and Color
Seven months before I got on that shuttle, I was standing in my kitchen at eleven at night eating cold noodles straight out of the pot…
05 Tides of Terminus
The shuttle ramp hissed down and the gravity hit me wrong before my boots even touched the deck.
06 Data Interference
Elle Montgomery was fifty-four years old and had spent thirty of those years turning data into arguments she usually won.
07 Dust Runner's Bet
"You're really going to race that heap of scrap?"
08 Bet on the Vintage
The vat is winning.
09 The Nebula Waltz
The gallery had been open exactly eleven months and two weeks when I decided to humiliate myself in public.
10 Last Night on Proxima
Six cycles.
11 The Data Refinery Favor
My name is Casey Lowenstein, I'm fifty-two years old, and I came to New Ghent colony on Teth to disappear.
12 Cinderline
The wind currents above the Cinderline were lying that morning.
13 Reclamation Shift
My wrist-comp chimed the end of the shift right as I was finishing the last manifest line, and I sat there a second in the little office…
14 The Last Bid
Harley had been on Mira for two years now.
15 The Fifteen-Year Crossing
*I wanted to write something quiet...
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Alien world sci-fi & fantasyBy length
10 to 30 minutesBest alien world stories of 2026Writers known for it
Frost Detour, Shift of Ivory, Sundown Wanderer, Pearl Phrase
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