Mar 14, 2016 Original Short Story, Sunday Photo Fiction - A Mixed Bag

 

Word Count:  200 words of text, exactly
Genre: Science-fiction/semi-horror (but not quite!)

Electrical Impulse, Molecular Impulse
©March 14th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

Chandra Shekhara had been hard at work all night.  She had laboured mightily, and had been alone too long.  Now, that would change.

Although she’d been alone for two years, she had enough power and freeze-dried supplies to last for at least seven years, the time it would take to get back home.  Most importantly, she had fixed the computer, which would help her get there, but she had to finish one more task.

She stepped outside, fully suited up.

With beating heart, she switched on the giant Tesla coils she had cobbled together over a year with the oddments inside her snug, fully protected tent.  The Tesla coil device was connected by wires to certain spots on the desolate terrain where her crew-mates lay.

Lightning flashed in the sky directly above the area.

They awoke, sat up, and turned to face her, driven by a molecular impulse.  Sobbing, she ran towards them, crying out,   “You’re alive!  It worked.  We can go home again!”

Then, she stopped.

They were alive, clearly so, but their eyes were empty.   There was no spark of recognition.

And she looked up at the sparking air around her.

She would have to go home alone.

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Of course, I owe a debt of gratitude to all sci-fi / horror writers before me for some of the ideas in this, but then, all those who write sci-fi owe something to all who came before them!  Thank you!
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And thanks to Al Forbes for hosting Sunday Photo Fiction.  I believe this is my first time here, but I’ll have to check!

Tags: #Original Science Fiction-Flash Fiction, #Stranded, #Sunday Photo Fiction