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Submitted to Contest #67
“Don’t you think it’s time we return to the ship and regroup?” The Quartermaster asked, cautiously. “We’ve been out here for seventy nights now, and we haven’t made any significant progress in our search, Captain. The crew and I think it may be better to return to the ship, regroup, debrief, and then improve our strategy and continue where we left off.” They were the first explorers of any sort to spend that much time on the strange and dangerous island. They were in search of a treasure whose existence no one could guarantee. Many h...
Submitted to Contest #66
“It doesn’t count if you’re already planning your own defeat. How can you claim you’re protecting everyone when you know what the consequences of your fall will be, sir?” “What do you want from me, Jonah?” Jacob asked forcefully. He was already at his wits end. “I’m doing everything I can – I have done everything I can! I have done everything I need to do. I shook the hands I had to shake, I smiled for the camera for as long as I had to, I said the things I had to say – even if I didn’t like or enjoy saying them! What more do you want from...
Submitted to Contest #65
After much deliberation, we decided to make our move. We would spend the whole night, or much of it, carrying out our mission at the graveyard. Upon arrival, everything was as we had anticipated. We quickly got down to work and made good time. The raid went much quicker and smoother than we could have predicted, and so as we approached the seventh grave, I finally began to relax. We had only recently been released from jail after completing the eighteen-month-long sentences we’d both received for robbing a store at gun-point. It was...
Submitted to Contest #63
By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were on fire. I’d gotten too close to her too soon, and I’d noticed the books before I could control it. Mrs. Simpson discarded the burning books as quickly as she could and jumped a few steps back to put as much distance as possible between her and the flames. She hissed, and then scoffed, and then contented herself with a scowl. That wasn’t the first run-in I’d had with Mrs. Simpson. We’d had many run-ins in the past, some as early as a few days before the encounter on the front porch that morning....
Submitted to Contest #60
“I won’t let anyone hurt you, and I will never leave you.” She whispered. *** It had been raining cats and dogs around the country for months. Cities and islands located near water-bodies – which constituted half of the country – were all suffering from severe flooding. The rain wasn’t completely responsible for the flooding, it had merely exacerbated something scientists had been predicting for years – the ocean levels were rising, and if nothing was done, they would overflow and wreak unspeakable havoc on anything in their way. It st...
Submitted to Contest #58
“Walk away, Jake. It isn’t worth it. This happens every time he’s here.” The bartender warned. Jake hissed. “So what if I speak to the lady? He doesn’t own her!” he had his eyes locked on the body of his opponent, he would detect whatever move he made the moment he made it. “She’s his sister, for Christ-sake. This is what brothers do!” the bartender cautioned. “Well, things need to change around here. I need to teach him a lesson. He needs to learn to not interrupt people while they’re having conversations!” he said, pointing his finge...
Submitted to Contest #57
Will maintained his position in the line as he was led down the path with the others. He didn’t know where they were headed, but he wasn’t eager to find out. He had heard stories about the life after death, but he never believed them. At a young age, he had frequented the neighborhood worship center with his mother and siblings, he remembered what the preacher said would happen to those who had no faith in the Supreme. If that was the fate he was being led to, he didn’t want anything to do with it. “Where are we going?” he whispered to the...
The lawyer arrived early that morning, just as William had requested. He had very little time left to put his house in order, and he was eager to see to it that his estate was distributed according to the will he had prepared that morning. Will had been battling the disease for many years, and although the doctors had given him a clean bill of health a little over a year before, the disease made a swift return. It returned with vengeance. In a matter of weeks, Will was paralyzed from his waist to his feet, and the paralysis would have spre...
Submitted to Contest #54
Jonah had been applying to the show every week for the past year but he’d never made the shortlist of guests. He tried again for what he decided would be the last time the previous week, and he was blown away when he received his invite letter. He couldn’t believe his eyes as he was led up to the stage to discuss his problems with the Divine Empress. When he sat beside her on the couch at the center of the stage, he froze. He had spent four years watching her through the screen of the TV in his living room, but he had never felt such awe at...
Submitted to Contest #53
It had been more than 6 months since they last met. After they left college they met at the cottage once every two months to spend a weekend together. It helped them keep up with each other’s lives and maintain the support group they’d individually depended on since their first years in college. The cottage was located in a wooded area an hour away from the city, in a small community made up of no more than 30 houses sitting in the middle of a valley – a sharp contrast to their lives in the city, where a single apartment block consisted of...
They watched the chocolate drip down past the stick and onto her hand. When the girl stretched her neck and picked it up with her tongue, they collectively gulped. It was just 1:30pm, but they felt a day’s worth of stress. They’d tried hiding under cartons and garbage bins in the alleyway but that had done nothing to keep them cool, instead, it made it even worse for them to cope with the heat. The city was famed for the sweltering heat during this time of the year. It was a stark contrast to what the strays were used to in the outskirt...
Submitted to Contest #52
I stopped in my tracks when I spotted him. He’d already seen me from where he was sitting on the edge of the street. He had his characteristic smile on his face. I stared at him with my mouth wide open and my eyes wide in shock as I decided between believing my eyes were deceiving me and believing what my heart was telling me. His death had had a big impact on my family. We’d searched for him for weeks without so much as a clue as to what happened to him. He was my best friend, and I was determined to find him and find out why he’d run awa...
As I stared down at the ink shaped into the form of letters, my breath became shallow and I had to put in extra effort to get air into my lungs. The letter began to shake in my hands as beads of sweat formed across my forehead. The letter informed me that I’d been chosen to join others already resident at the Moon Habitation to test the long-term effects living in space had on the human body. I should never have joined the Ministry of Space Affairs. Initially, our job at the Department of Human Life in Space had been the search for life ...
Submitted to Contest #51
Red sighed in frustration as she watched the girl return to the playground. It was the third time she was making the trip from the playground to her mom to collect another candy-bar.Red had sensed earlier that something sinister was going on on the playground but she’d ignored it. She came to the park to take a breather and she was determined to stick to her plan. She’d done so much for so many people, today was meant to be for herself only.The girl had just started to unwrap her candy bar when Red sensed the sinister aura again, but it...
Submitted to Contest #50
The room stank, but only to outsiders. For the six men who had taken up residence in the room, nothing seemed unusual as far as the air in the room was concerned. It was only when they took the occasional break that they noticed something was off, but even then, it was quickly nudged to the back of their minds by more pressing issues. It had been eight days since they moved into the conference room. It was not unusual to find team members staring longingly at family photos stashed in their wallets; on one occasion, Drew swore he saw Max c...
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