Children of Earth

A Sci-Fi Fantasy Short Story

De: Piaras O Cionnaoith

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When saving your world means destroying your heart.

Prince Enki never wanted to be a god. He only wanted to save his dying planet.

As Nibiru chokes on its own dust and atmospheric processors fail, Enki leads a desperate expedition to Earth—a primitive world rich with the gold that could restore his home's failing skies. But when his people prove too vulnerable to survive the harsh mining conditions, he makes a choice that will haunt him forever: he creates a new race by splicing human resilience with Anunnaki intelligence.

The hybrids—calling themselves the Adama—exceed every expectation. They think, feel, dream, and build. They are not the tools he intended, but people with their own hunger for freedom and meaning.

And then Enki meets Ninsun.

She is everything Nibiru has forgotten: alive, unbroken, fiercely present. In her amber eyes, he finds not salvation but something more dangerous—love that defies every protocol, every duty, every carefully constructed wall between creator and creation.

But love is a luxury afforded only to those without impossible choices. When his mother, Queen Ninhursag, arrives with an ultimatum, Enki must decide: abandon the woman who makes him whole, or doom both his dying world and the fragile colony he's built between the stars.

Children of Earth is a haunting meditation on the cost of creation, the weight of responsibility, and the terrible beauty of choices that break us into better versions of ourselves. Part ancient myth reimagined, part philosophical science fiction, this is a story about what it means to give life—and what it takes to let go.

Perfect for readers who loved the moral complexity of Ursula K. Le Guin, the mythic resonance of N.K. Jemisin, and the aching humanity of Ted Chiang.