Submissions by Programmingjoe

Yvonne grew up in the Southern regions of France, moving from village to village, avoiding the local enforcement, and looking for odd jobs and charitable donations that allowed her to survive. When she was younger, her parents had packed up and left the city while she was at school, for unknown reasons, leaving her alone and with the scraps left behind at their home. Without anywhere to go she continued to go to school and continued to live in her parents old home. That couldn't last for long though and eventually her classmates began to notice the weight she was losing and word got to local...

As Jimmy fell into a deep sleep, he thought of astronauts roaming the universe and discovering civilisations far into the cosmos. His dad was an astronaut who had left two years prior on an expedition that was supposed to have lasted eighteen months. Twelve months into the journey home base lost contact with their ship after the crew had decided to land on a small blue planet about the same size as earth and the same distance away from a star as earth is from our sun. While many people believe the travellers will return soon, hope continues to decline for all. However, Jimmy was still full of...