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“The Mist Rider” by Bad CatZ

The Mist Rider (Abridged) By Jesse D Lopez After a coronal mass ejection has destroyed all technology on the planet Vernon, the colonizers from earth were forced to rebuild society from the ground up using the natural resources of ground water to power steam engines. In the wake of the steam powered revolution came the militarization of water and tyrannical control of the people’s rights, it is in this cauldron that one man would dare create something that would challenge the lexicon of the entire establishment, he calls it the Mist Engine...

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“Water Carriers” by Bad CatZ

Submitted to Contest #160

Water Carriers Story by Jesse D Lopez You have to be honest to be a water carrier, people are counting on you with their lives, back when we still had glaciers on the earth nobody had to think about water, but now that the earth has settled into a new era, us terrestrials, as we’re called, must provide for ourselves like the tribes of old.                I hear people used to think they had the power to change the weather, in the end, the sun changed into a new cycl...

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“Keep the Scam Alive” by Bad CatZ

Submitted to Contest #157

Keep the Scam Alive By Jesse D Lopez It was an outrage! A mother of three children killed in grocery store parking lot by a criminal who should have been in jail, except the mayor appointed a district attorney that is soft on crime and helped the man get out of jail for attempted rape after one day, this is where the real story begins.            It’s a small town, less than twenty thousand people, raw untouched nature at the boarders on all sides, it’s usually so quiet and peaceful, o...

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“The Prophets (Abridged)” by Bad CatZ

Submitted to Contest #154

The Prophets The bane of mankind is curiosity, for every splitting of the atom, and antimatter reactions are many curious human beings who died desperately clawing their way towards knowledge and the betterment of mankind, all in the name of science. ACT.I Somewhere on the moon, a path is revealed by the clearing of dust, and glimmering through in magnificent pulses of light, a golden obelisk set in a valley jealousy enclosed in the bosom of a crater. Thoughts race through the astronauts’ minds, thoughts of all the speculation that hum...

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“Made It” by Bad CatZ

Made It Story By Jesse D. LopezThey say that you got to fake it ‘til you make it, but how many of them live it?#“I never said I was a big shot, in fact, the most important lesson I ever learned from college was to check my ego at the door, that’s why I listen to other people at the writing table.”, Abel explains almost trying to virtue signal.Brian is quit to pick up on this, but too patient to call it out now, so he says, “I agree, that’s why I didn’t mind writing this Christmas movie with the other outcast staff writers.”Carl can’t mi...

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“Everything you Wanted and More” by Bad CatZ

Everything You Wanted and More  Story by Jesse D. Lopez Only after we polluted the life from our oceans and skies, we realized we cannot eat money or oil. Floating to the nearest habitable planet in the closest star system; Adamma, a person chosen by the people and genetically created to travel through space with life extending technology, Adamma is nearly immortal. No better ship has ever been built on Earth, and now that Adamma, both man and woman genetically, have been created as the ‘Seed’ of humanity and with the help of the ‘See...

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“The Island of Dr. Mon Santos” by Bad CatZ

Submitted to Contest #150

The Island of Dr. Mon Santos ACT I                I sing of the world as we fear it, hear my tale, and be warned of the day of many woes, the day genetically modified organisms become the mainstream in our society.                Rising to the podium is a boy who grew into a 28-year-old genius, now accepting his Nobel peace prize for his contribution to the advancement of genetically modified...

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“Why Doesn't Anyone Rent This Place?” by Bad CatZ

Submitted to Contest #148

The sky rips over us as we drive out of our old familiar, our parents’ neighborhood and their stuffy old ways and the beat-up old buildings that used to be something special and now lie as monuments to our society’s collective sense of neglect and waste. We make for the ocean, not to live there, but to make a day out of the experience like many others from more blue-collar zip codes. We packed few things; stood on the beach until we couldn’t take it anymore, as if we wanted to ‘get our monies worth’ out of the sun and sand; and then I chose...

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