C.C. Hills

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“What We Leave Behind” by C.C. Hills

Submitted to Contest #196

Another planet is dying before my eyes, and I feel nothing. The crust breaks open and peels away, revealing flashes of its fiery flesh. It glows like embers in a dying fire, stirred up by a breeze – only to be snuffed out by the thick clouds of the Swarm. The higher we ascend, the more of it is revealed. The Swarm sits attached to Wrenix Four like a cancer; eating, converting, proliferating. A slow, billowing mass, like a mad sculptor’s creation, its tendrils wrapped around its prey like a titanic amoeba, gleaming a silver white in the s...

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Ambitious writer from Austria, will publish under the pen name C.C. Hills. Here's my twitter @ChristophHinte2