26 Dec 2017
by Christina Engela
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Tags: art, author, christina engela, crabbygrasss, fantasy, funny, sci-fi, science fiction
Crabby-grass is a native plant-like animal form native to the planet Deanna, being essentially an animal which has developed remarkably plant-like characteristics. These characteristics enable crabbygrass to blend in remarkably well with ordinary grass and help it to all but disappear into wild grass and even urban lawns.
Crabby-grass has stalk and leaf-like appendages, and even grows seasonal flowers, by which it reproduces by means of wind or insect pollination, and sometimes, even by direct contact with its partners. The creatures generally resemble clumps of thick, green grass – making them appealing, unfortunately, to herbivorous creatures. The creature’s flowers develop into seed-pods, which can be made to rattle when the creature becomes angry and shakes them, usually as a warning. More
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24 Dec 2017
by Christina Engela
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Tags: Albrecht, Albrecht's Takeaways, Atro City, author, christina engela, fantasy, Lupini Square, sci-fi, science fiction, South African
Johannes Albrecht – An immigrant who originally hails from New Excelsior Colony, Albrecht is the owner-operator of Albrecht’s Takeaways, a modest yet popular coffee shop set up in an old shipping container on Lupini Square in Atro City. The small enterprise has become well known, especially for his famous family recipe Hot Dogs and Cold Cats – which according to him – are made “the way his a’mamma showed him back in the Old Country” (New Excelsior Colony). More
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22 Dec 2017
by Christina Engela
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Tags: author, christina engela, fantasy, haunted object, horror, sci-fi, science fiction, Yackley
Samuel Janus Yackley was the Sheriff at the atmosphere processing plant on Atooin. Aside from a few too-short vacations, Sam had spent nine years, three months and sixteen days on Atooin, and frankly, he was sick and tired of the planet. More
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21 Dec 2017
by Christina Engela
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Tags: aliens, author, christina engela, fantasy, Flort, Flortians, little green men, sci-fi, science fiction
Flort is a small planet inhabited by humanoids roughly at about the same level of development as Earth in the 1950s. To Terrans, the Flortians resemble the ‘little green men’ they know from old fashioned cartoons, and this makes any dealings with them extremely complicated – because Flortians are unbelievably bad-tempered, warlike little beings who didn’t like being laughed at after every other sentence. More
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20 Dec 2017
by Christina Engela
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Tags: alien, art, author, christina engela, fantasy, flame bird, Florpavia, Florpavian, sci-fi, science fiction
Florpavian flame birds are a rare sight – at least anywhere other than on their home world Florpavia. For a while, several specimens were visible in the Atro City zoo on Deanna, shortly before the Exotic Birds Wing had to be rebuilt for the second time. Aside from their appearance, they tend to remind people of the stories about dragons they hear about as children.
This comparison runs deeper than mere appearance however, since the creature tends to be extremely deadly. It has raw acetone for blood and walks around the surface of its home planet, Florpavia, eating raw chemicals and crapping crude plastic explosive everywhere it goes. Its breath is noxious and has been known to strip paint from nearby walls. It’s hiccups could be deadly, and its coughs are feared by even the hardiest and most athletic cargo-master or zoo-keeper. To say nothing of the um, flatulence. More
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19 Dec 2017
by Christina Engela
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Tags: alien, author, blood diamonds, christina engela, fantasy, horror, Nubia, sci-fi, science fiction, vampires
In the short story “Death By Vampire“, Terran secret agent Lirian Nimah trades ten blood diamonds to an enemy agent for the lives of a hundred Terran hostages. Each one valued at a hundred thousand credits, each one for ten Terran hostages.
Of special note about the value of these particular blood diamonds, they couldn’t be forged or copied, not even by a transmatter replication device – something about the atomic structure interfered with the process. This made them even more valuable.
Mined on the planet Nubia, they weren’t called ‘blood diamonds’ because anyone died mining them… they had that name because they were the color of the blood of several species – green blood – like the Jim-waians… which, Lirian Nimah – secret agent and even more secret vampire – found less palatable than the red blood of Terrans!
You can find out more at The Crow Bar! 🙂
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16 Dec 2017
by Christina Engela
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Tags: art, author, christina engela, drawings, fantasy, female, horror, Illustrations, Images, LGBT, sci-fi, science fiction, sketches, South African, transgender
About “Panic! Horror In Space” by Christina Engela – a sci-fi-horror series.
‘Panic! Horror In Space‘ is a series of science-fiction-horror stories featuring regular characters, with the occasional introduction of new characters or settings. The premise of the concept was to create a horror-sci-fi story in a series of connected short fiction installments.
While on an otherwise routine deep-space mission to chart new territory on the frontier of unknown space, the Pioneer Fleet starship Mercury is probably the unluckiest ship in history. Not once, not twice, but many times over, the same hapless crew – give or take a few dozen casualties – on a supposed voyage of deep space exploration, stumble into the weird, wake the creepy and trip over the downright terrifying and possibly even supernatural… More
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