Thirteen synopses

One-sen­tence syn­opses for projects I’m work­ing on.

1. Earth Fleet
   A mys­te­ri­ous­ly emp­ty Earth serves as back­drop and cat­a­lyst to a final, apoc­a­lyp­tic bat­tle between two war­ring human civilizations.
2. The Cold­est War
   An army of ghosts, res­ur­rect­ed in the out­er solar sys­tem, bat­tles against incur­sions from the liv­ing in the inner sys­tem and a swarm of alien ghosts from inter­stel­lar space.
3. The Trees
   On a Dyson shell trav­el­ing through the inter­galac­tic dark, a young boy may be the descen­dant of the god­like peo­ple who launched the shell, or mere­ly the pawn of two fac­tions involved in a pro­tract­ed cold war.
4. Every­thing That Nev­er Happened
   The cap­tain of a ketch is forced to work for zom­bies, but the trea­sure they seek may spell the end of life as he has known it.
5. Salyx
   A young boy comes of age on a dis­tant colony world, just as Earth is attempt­ing to recon­nect with all the worlds it has lost touch with.
6. The Par­ley
   The human race meets one last time on Earth to ham­mer out a uni­ver­sal truce, but a mur­der takes cen­ter stage.
7. Esau
   A cyborg gun­slinger makes his way to the cap­i­tal of the king­dom, to kill his broth­er, the king.
8. Heav­en and Earth
   A man, enslaved by the woman that killed and res­ur­rect­ed him, plots vengeance, but she is more dan­ger­ous that he knows.
9. The Ash of Memory
   A woman pass­es through the bar­do, puri­fy­ing her­self and prepar­ing for her reincarnation.
10. Fim­bul­vetr
    The last man in a snow-cov­ered world meets with char­ac­ters out of Norse myth.
11. Yasht
    A Uni­verse-span­ning hive mind that may or may not be God makes con­tact with the human race.
12. Across a Wound­ed Land
    A man teams up with a cyborg to res­cue his wife from a wiz­ard, but the cyborg has plans of his own.
13. Heat Death
    After the stars go out, the gods gath­er to dis­cuss what comes next.

Oth­er Thurs­day Thir­teen participants

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• Treize port­man­teaux
• 13 kids in church
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