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“Wormholes” by M. Bradley Castellini

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PART ONE: WORMHOLES AND HAPPY ENDINGS Dr. Zednik (Zed) tinkers frantically, yet masterfully, with his creation before him. He slams on his keyboard in short bursts, measuring, calculating, but never resting. Indecipherable code runs across the many screens in the lab. Zed's eyes leap from screen to screen, triple checking for mistakes in his calibrations. His machine slowly comes to life with bright lights and strange humming sounds. On the other side of the lab, Aaron sits in his Gravchair and watches his older brother erratically...

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“"the love that dare not speak its name""” by Robert Radcliff

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(a different and modern take on a well-known event)*****My phone has begun to ring. It's 2.30 a.m and it has to be my brother Ernest. Following several rings, I answered:"Yes, my brother. What's going on?"Jody, my partner who can sleep through anything, continued snoozing."It's resolved," Ernest declared.What was resolved I asked myself in my head?....I was just waking up, I needed to organize my thoughts."Please wait a moment." Still buying time to gather myself, I then remembered and stated:"Do you mean your so-called time machine?"He...

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“Spoils of War” by Dylan Patrick

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My body was protected, but my soul absorbed the destruction of a poor Syrian town that served as a stratagem. The nuke we dropped on them was metaphorical, but it was as if I absorbed the radiation of the strike. As if I were struck mad, I couldn’t help but laugh as the world burned around me, as my weapon of destruction was set loose on the unwary. If I still had my mind about me, I’d have dropped to my knees, weeped over the humanity of the carnage carved through the Middle East like I set the fire that set the Hindenburg alight. But I di...

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“It Ain't Everyday” by Jeffery Young

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“The lab gets cold at night,” I said, wrapping the girl with a quilted blanket. She had fallen asleep at the lab bench, again, and her brown hair was splayed out around her like sun-beams. Checking the wall clock, I sighed heavily. “Tess. It’s three in the morning! Why are you still here?” “Mmm?” She moaned, smacking her lips and lifting her head slowly. “Who?” She sounded half-panicked, confused until she saw me, her big blue eyes meeting my soft green ones. “Oh. It’s just you.” I took a spot at the bench next to her, crossing my arms and...

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“dIve~IN dArKness” by Sri Vi S

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In that Cenote of darkness Plenty of answers it is just One Whole!! “I” had to stop thinking For I would be answered from Within the echelons of the Cenote! From deep within the Cenote - You are a seed, Bearing many lives, Wearing many forms!! “Grass, Worm, snake Tree ~~ Fish, Bird, animal, demon, the mystic Then where am I? Then who am I? The movable and/or the immovable” Nothing, nothing yet the whole of everything!!! For, The Infinitesimal Universe just extended one of its arm – to disperse the multitude. Tzec came out the r...

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“General Dynamics” by Matt Allen

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“Are you the new guy?” My new supervisor was balding, headstrong, and well dressed. “Yes sir.” I stood up towering over him. “Cut the sir crap and follow me. We have a lot of work to do.” I liked him already. Sharp and to the point. Okay old man, I thought, let’s get started. ——————- That was 10 years ago. 10 years ago to the day and I was ready to revolutionize the world. It was like that song “Against the Wind” by Bob Seger, I wish I knew then what I know now. It was a different context of course but the same premise. If I would hav...

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“Expelled” by Acorn Gaffer

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What you need to know to understand the motivation behind the strange events recounted in this tale is as follows; Hugo Alden Wisenburg is a determined person with a great love for science and all things ‘unusual’. He has little regard for safety and perhaps too much ambition for his small stature and nervous nature. The final thing to know is that the very nature of our world is much stranger than we could possibly imagine and will only show its true face when threatened by discovery. And this is where our story begins, with a sho...

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“TIDES OF REBIRTH” by R. J. Garron

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“Did you see that?” “Let’s see,” the director said, drawing out the long ‘ee’ vowel. “An anomalous source of gravity outside a galaxy with no perceptible source… Hm. I’d say you hit another patch of dark matter.” Dr. Cassius Langdon twisted his mouth slightly, cogitating. “Considering observations over the past three months, there’s been a noticeable uptick in the gravity in these specified areas.” “Uptick? You mean there's a density of matter that's una...

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“Mysterious Ways” by Sarah Nelson

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“ God will save me. ” Sharon said. Her longtime doctor, who was helping her fight a severe autoimmune condition, respected her faith but wanted desperately to help her with modern medicine. “ He saved my sister, because she kept her faith, stayed on the path. I will stay on the path and He will save me too. I will have many, many long years. I am not throwing in the towel now. Besides, you guys can’t even really cure me, you said so yourself. With your care I will be bedridden in just a few months. Besides, I have things to do. ...

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“A brilliant Scientist” by Aymen Rani

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The man who regarded as the “father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb” was, Dr. Abdul Qadeer khan a famous Pakistani nuclear scientist and a metallurgical engineer. Dr. A.Q khan was hailed as a national hero for transforming his country in to world’s first Islamic nuclear power. But elsewhere he was remembered as a dangerous proponent of nuclear proliferation. He is widely regarded as the founder of gas centrifuge enrichment technology for Pakistan’s nuclear deterrent program. As its “father” A.Q khan, who headed Pakistan’s nuclear program for some...

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“Science Is Sacrifice” by Lindsay B

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What happens after we die? Do our souls float from our bodies to join a greater being in the sky? Or do our brains just release a flood of feel-good chemicals to ease the pain and fear, creating one blissful dream that seems to last forever? Since the dawn of human intelligence, so many brilliant minds have tried to find the answer, and not one has succeeded. Sarah Proctor hoped to be the first. Beyond hope, she knew that she would be the first. After decades of hard work and ridicule from her colleagues, she would be the first to definitive...

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“Intellectual Curiosity Uncovers an Amazing Truth, or Perhaps a Frightening One?” by David Adams

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The medical centre on Eden was as quiet as ever with little sound to muffle the humming and occasional bleep of a molecular scanner as it analysed the sample inserted a few hours before by the town’s senior doctor.*** *** ***Dr Au Clair would have had to admit that her current work was really designed as a time filler. Two years on from Eden b...

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“The Newton Challenge” by Mary Leah Howard

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THE NEWTON CHALLENGE Daniel Preston was a research scientist working for the Institute of Common Knowledge, an academic research institution. He had been employed there for the past ten years and had made several modest contributions to the scientific community. Daniel had a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a master’s degree in Physics. His boss, James Williams, had been the Director of the Institute for the past twenty-five years and ruled with an iron hand. Although James was a stickler for accuracy and detail, he wanted his staff to...

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“Don’t talk about what happens at Unit 0” by Dom Jones

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Chapter 1 So this is what happened. In many ways, Michael was like a dog. He was loyal and compassionate but my God was he stupid. I’ll give him credit where credit is due, he knew a lot about cars. He called himself practical smart. What that meant exactly, I don’t know. He had worked at the same god damn mechanic shop since he was 14. He only got the job because his dad worked there, but it became his whole life, that and camping. He said that I could read all the books I want, but in a survival situation I’d be dead in a minute and he’d b...

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“A Remarkable Discovery” by Margarita Escobar

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A Remarkable Finding The lab’s bright lights bothered Sue’s eyes. Around her countless shelves with colourful solutions contained in long glasses and test tubes. Beakers, pipettes and burettes covered the long countertop in front of her. She took the tissue sample from the Petri dish and carefully placed it under the electronic microscope. She observed the specimen and nodded. Yes, it was perfect. It clearly showed the type of heart cell taken from a lab rat. She had to prepare ten more samples for her Pathology class the following day. ...

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Write a story about a brilliant scientist making a startling discovery.

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✍️ 45 stories

“Wormholes” by M. Bradley Castellini

“"the love that dare not speak its name""” by Robert Radcliff

“Spoils of War” by Dylan Patrick

“It Ain't Everyday” by Jeffery Young

“dIve~IN dArKness” by Sri Vi S

“General Dynamics” by Matt Allen

“Expelled” by Acorn Gaffer

“TIDES OF REBIRTH” by R. J. Garron

“Mysterious Ways” by Sarah Nelson

“A brilliant Scientist” by Aymen Rani

“Science Is Sacrifice” by Lindsay B

“Intellectual Curiosity Uncovers an Amazing Truth, or Perhaps a Frightening One?” by David Adams

“The Newton Challenge” by Mary Leah Howard

“Don’t talk about what happens at Unit 0” by Dom Jones

“A Remarkable Discovery” by Margarita Escobar

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Write a story where someone says, “Everything is changing.”

Write about two old friends meeting for the first time in years.

Write a story about someone coming to terms with how different they are from their younger self.

Write about someone whose desire to constantly improve something borders on obsessive.

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