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“The Rocks 2” by Jordan Williams

"I can't believe we're arguing over this." Maddie said as she tried, for the fourth time, to strap on her vacuum suit. Paul snatched it, again, from her hand and started to put on his own suit.  ""We are not discussing it at all, let alone arguing about it." He said.  "Why are you being a pain?" She asked.  "It's my mission in life to annoy you enough that you forget about the majesty of going to space AND making first contact with alien intelligence, both in the same lifetime." He said, grinning at her.  "You are doing t...

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“Drip, Drip, Drip” by Jordan Williams

Submitted to Contest #142

Taps don't drip when you are on the float, a leak comes out but simply pools at the faucet until someone notices the bulb and cleans it up. Physics was funny that way.  Tightening pipes and checking valves is half of your life when you are on an old shuttle barely rated for space flight. The taps weren't the only thing to leak, but they were the only thing that dripped when you were under thrust.  Drip, Drip, Drip. Any leak was louder and faster the higher the burn. Anything close to 1G changed it from individual sounds to an e...

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“Hollow Contemplation” by Jordan Williams

Submitted to Contest #141

"Truly a display so perverse and assaulting to the senses that I would relate it to being not much preferable to being attacked by a crackhead in the urine filled streets of the East End. A dispassionate creation of the lowest order, truly, I cannot imagine what has given Professor Merrill such a poor judgement of her students to send them out into the world with this as their only offering." Constance Stetson said.  The gathering crowd oohed and simpered at the delivery of his verdict, dooming another artist to mediocrity and a swift...

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“Owain the Mighty” by Jordan Williams

Submitted to Contest #140

When people talked about the raiders they said they would come by boat. That they would leap from their beast headed longships to burn and raid and rape.  Bearded killers with long hair and coats of mail, wielding swords and axes that did not worship the nine or fear death.  I was told over and over to be wary of the horizon and the distant waves. To fear the Viking and all the death that he bought with him.  When they did come to my home, they came on horses from inland. I was as surprised as anyone. They were unmistakably Da...

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“Pod Charlie-23” by Jordan Williams

Submitted to Contest #138

Without light, there is nothing. No life can exist on Earth without the light from our little star, the heat and energy it gives is the base component for life to grow, vital to form those first building blocks for water.  Then water becomes a soup of micro-biotic life, the soup becomes denser and more complex, finally things grow and exist that can live outside of the soup.  Light is there every step of the way. Without it, there is nothing.  There are some things that grow and live from the warmth of vents deep at the ocean'...

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“Criminal for Life” by Jordan Williams

Submitted to Contest #137

"Listen Einstein, you just gotta keep the engine running and keep an eye to for the cops okay?" Casanova said. He had pulled a balaclava over his face and was checking that his shotgun was loaded.  Shelly nodded and checked that the engine was running. It was. She had a gun too, but hers wasn't loaded, when they had given it to her first with a full clip Ceaser had snatched it from her hands and asked if the others were fucking retarded.  "She can barely string a sentence together, don't give her a loaded piece you fucking ingrate....

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“My Grandad” by Jordan Williams

Submitted to Contest #136

"My grandad used to teach me about history, not in a lecture way or even in telling stories himself kind of way, but with books.  He gave me the first Sharpe book, chronologically not in release order which was weird when I made it back around to Sharpe being in Spain cause Bernie C didn't fill out Sharpe's back story until after he'd finished the Peninsular War.  Reading about Dick Sharpe and his riflemen really sparked my interest and from that I learnt as much as I could about the war, Napoleon and Wellington. After that he gave...

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“Savoury, Soldier, Spy” by Jordan Williams

Submitted to Contest #135

Content Warning - Physical Violence, Sexual ViolenceThey would lose, it was an unwinnable and untenable position. The S.E.F. had been pushed back and back for weeks and now there was no more back to which be pushed. Thomas Penrose knew it in his bones, even before he reported to what was left of command, most of the higher rankers having either deserted or fled Sunderton, but that conversation had confirmed his fears. Thomas was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Sunderton Expeditionary Force and an Intelligence Officer employed by the Coalit...

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“The Rocks” by Jordan Williams

Submitted to Contest #134

It was a Tuesday morning that everything changed for Maddie.  It wasn't really Tuesday morning, that was just the time it was back on earth in Houston. Up here on the ESS, it wasn't Tuesday morning anymore than it was Christmas eve. Thinking too much about that gave Maddie a headache though so she tried not to concentrate on it.   She was preparing for her daily observations, part of her routine dictated by a room full of people a lot smarter than her, when she saw it. The thing that changed everything. It didn't look like muc...

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“Xeno-Spirits” by Jordan Williams

Submitted to Contest #132

Content warning - Wholesome Couple Cuddles "But there's so much Evidence!" Penny said emphatically, hoping to bring their "discussion" to a close. Joe smiled and tried not to look too pleased with himself, though he didn't try particularly hard and his smile wormed across his face. "Yeah, that isn't evidence for ghosts. You got to hit me with intelligent responses or nothing." Joe said. "They say names and stuff!" Penny said. "Getting it once through that thing is not good enough, not by a long shot. I wanna hear, can you say your name, c...

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“Sister & Sons, Bar and Grill” by Jordan Williams

Submitted to Contest #131

Sensitive Content warning - Domestic Abuse, Violence & Substance Abuse Ford sighed and slammed the ice machine closed.  "Sorry Pablo, it's playing up again." He said. There was a crack, followed by static before his brother replied. "Just rewire the sub-power to the freezer and I'll rerun the OS from here." Pablo said. "Yeah dude, I have no idea what that means. I'll just go to the motel." Ford said. "Leave Sister's & Sons! For ice! Are you crazy!? Can you get me a Penguin bar‽" Pablo said. "Sure," Ford said. He lifted ...

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“2105: Babylon” by Jordan Williams

Submitted to Contest #130

2105: Babylon, Capital of Luna, formerly the Colony of New Jamestown Babylon was a city, in the sense that anything could be like a city while not being on Earth. There were perhaps 10,000 people on the busiest day, when Cosmonauts from the Asteroid belt returned with Icebergs and detailed surveys of the rich resources hidden in the solar system.  It was a city in the way that only a city could be so loud and so hot, cramped even though it was a tiny fraction of the size of the massive megacity of Tokyo, Japan. It had bars, it was dir...

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