Sci-Fi Weeklies with P.E.Rowe

Becoming | Sci-fi Short Audiobook

"The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves become our myths; our myths become our truths; and our truths shape our history."
This story has a related "sequel" short "Stewards of the Drawdown": https://youtu.be/wRgcMoafTF0
As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Primitive Aliens" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxEpybDpmGA
If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-readers is available on the story's page on my website linked below:
More from Rowe: https://www.rowelit.com
More on this story: https://www.rowelit.com/becoming
About this project: I am writing a weekly sci-fi story based on the theme of Isaac Arthur’s SFIA videos. It’s a crazy challenging timeframe to create a good short story in, and to do so publicly is even more daunting. I’m just hoping some good stories come out of this and I have fun writing them. So far so good, I think.
Thanks for stopping by!
For the serious writers out there: Mechanics of Fiction Writing Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnRJzfG2BEMJusZSnaAG_Ew

Kappa Paradox | Sci-fi Short Audiobook

"I’m in a very strange, archaic hospital, where they open your skull and give you brain damage, apparently."
This story has a "prequel" short. "Kappa Salvage" This one should stand alone, but it may make a little more sense and be easier to follow if you check out that story first: https://youtu.be/kxa_NtHapQw
As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Absent Megastructures" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caE0HVD3jaQ
If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-readers is available on the story's page on my website linked below:
More from Rowe: https://www.rowelit.com
More on this story: https://www.rowelit.com/kappa-paradox
About this project: I am writing a weekly sci-fi story based on the theme of Isaac Arthur’s SFIA videos. It’s a crazy challenging timeframe to create a good short story in, and to do so publicly is even more daunting. I’m just hoping some good stories come out of this and I have fun writing them. 
Thanks for stopping by!
For the serious writers out there: Mechanics of Fiction Writing Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnRJzfG2BEMJusZSnaAG_Ew 

Cupcakes! | Sci-fi Short Audiobook

"I merely looked into the accounts of the actual events and found out that we started the war, and we did so over a type of food I had never heard of, some confectionary called cupcakes."
As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Extragalactic Sanctuaries" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8GksFOqnao
If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-readers is available on the story's page on my website linked below:
More from Rowe: https://www.rowelit.com
More on this story: https://www.rowelit.com/cupcakes
About this project: I am writing a weekly sci-fi story based on the theme of Isaac Arthur’s SFIA videos. It’s a crazy challenging timeframe to create a good short story in, and to do so publicly is even more daunting. I’m just hoping some good stories come out of this and I have fun writing them.
Thanks for stopping by!
For the serious writers out there: Mechanics of Fiction Writing Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnRJzfG2BEMJusZSnaAG_Ew 

Kappa Salvage | Sci-fi Short Audiobook

"It was a mystery as much discussed by school children as it was among researchers, scientists, and professors, much like the sunken city of Atlantis had been on Earth in centuries past." 
As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! 
Based on the SFIA theme: "Deep Space Habitats" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW_jz...
If you prefer to read rather than listen or would like to read along, the full text is available on my Substack: https://perowe.substack.com/p/kappa-salvage 
More from Rowe: https://www.rowelit.com
More on this story: https://www.rowelit.com/kappa-salvage
About this project: I am writing a weekly sci-fi story based on the theme of Isaac Arthur’s SFIA videos. It’s a crazy challenging timeframe to create a good short story in, and to do so publicly is even more daunting. I’m just hoping some good stories come out of this and I have fun writing them.
Thanks for stopping by!
For the serious writers out there: Mechanics of Fiction Writing Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnRJ...

The Prospectors | Sci-fi Short Audiobook

"Masters of the inner world, hopeless in the real world. People who can’t do for themselves have to manipulate the ones who can."
As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Life as a Planetary Explorer"
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vyg9...
If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-readers is available on the story's page on my website linked below:
More from Rowe: https://www.rowelit.com
More on this story: https://www.rowelit.com/the-prospectors
About this project: I am writing a weekly sci-fi story based on the theme of Isaac Arthur’s SFIA videos. It’s a crazy challenging timeframe to create a good short story in, and to do so publicly is even more daunting. I’m just hoping some good stories come out of this and I have fun writing them.
Thanks for stopping by!
For the serious writers out there: Mechanics of Fiction Writing Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnRJ...
 
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Stewards of the Drawdown | Sci-fi Short Audiobook

"The moment we changed them, we changed them forever. It is the same with us. Have none of you thought about what we must be to this mysterious race of ancestors who put us here?"
As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "The Silurian Hypothesis"
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxf0nE2zGpc
If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-readers is available on the story's page on my website linked below:
More from Rowe: https://www.rowelit.com
More on this story: https://www.rowelit.com/stewards-of-the-drawdown
About this project: I am writing a weekly sci-fi story based on the theme of Isaac Arthur’s SFIA videos. It’s a crazy challenging timeframe to create a good short story in, and to do so publicly is even more daunting. I’m just hoping some good stories come out of this and I have fun writing them.
Thanks for stopping by!
For the serious writers out there: Mechanics of Fiction Writing Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnRJzfG2BEMJusZSnaAG_Ew

The Futility of Cycling | Sci-fi Short Audiobook

"Space’s business is entropy, and it carries out its business with relentlessness and utter indifference to our best laid plans. Aspiring explorers will meet the fists of the infinite."
As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Interstellar Probes"
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_yuO...
If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-readers is available on the story's page on my website linked below:
More from Rowe: https://www.rowelit.com
More on this story: https://www.rowelit.com/futility-of-c...
About this project: I am writing a weekly sci-fi story based on the theme of Isaac Arthur’s SFIA videos. It’s a crazy challenging timeframe to create a good short story in, and to do so publicly is even more daunting. I’m just hoping some good stories come out of this and I have fun writing them.
Thanks for stopping by!
For the serious writers out there: Mechanics of Fiction Writing Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnRJ...

Playing the Sondomme | Sci-fi Short Audiobook

"The other part is music. It’s still the most mysterious force in the universe—why these sounds should make anyone feel anything, it’s astounding. And in some ways, it’s the realest thing there is."
As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for the inspiring theme! Based on the SFIA theme: "Megastructure Compendium" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xt13...
If you prefer to read rather than listen, a PDF of the story formatted for tablets & e-readers is available on the story's page on my website linked below:
More from Rowe: https://www.rowelit.com
More on this story: https://www.rowelit.com/playing-the-s...
About this project: I am writing a weekly sci-fi story based on the theme of Isaac Arthur’s SFIA videos. It’s a crazy challenging timeframe to create a good short story in, and to do so publicly is even more daunting. I’m just hoping some good stories come out of this and I have fun writing them.
Thanks for stopping by!
For the serious writers out there: Mechanics of Fiction Writing Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnRJ...