Scifaiku Archives - Ron Sparks

21May201604Jan2018

Slave Race

Ron Sparks Haibun, Poetry, Science Fiction, Scifaiku haibun 0 Comment

Rel’lika looked at his new slave and wondered. Unlike slaves from the other ninety-three races the Yralen had subjugated, this particular slave refused to be broken. He was the hardest-working slave Rel’lika had ever owned – of that there was no doubt. Yet the slave defied him in subtle ways. He moved just a little […]

06May201612Jun2017

Tripodia Prime

Ron Sparks Haibun, Poetry, Science Fiction, Scifaiku haibun, lost earth, scifaiku 0 Comment

The inside of the Orion Nebula was little different than normal space. Padraic was disappointed. He wasn’t sure exactly what he had expected, but this wasn’t it. He couldn’t even see the nebula from his vantage point deep inside it. He had an easy view out of the nebula and there were no visible clouds of […]

06May201604Jan2018

The Day We Lost Earth

Ron Sparks Haibun, Poetry, Science Fiction, Scifaiku haibun, lost earth, scifaiku 11 Comments

(Note: This story is a haibun, a story that combines prose and haiku – or in this case, scifaiku) The Day We Lost Earth We had almost no warning. Sensors picked up their blue shifted transition into normal space as they entered the Oort Cloud. It took the invaders a mere three months to reach Earth from […]