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Posted in Science Fiction on Aug 24, 2020

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The First Man Stuck on Mars

Submitted to Contest #8

One decision can really change it all. The name’s Michael Morrow. The Michael Morrow. I am currently 28 years old, a single dad, and I’m currently working as an astronaut for NASA. I’ve been working with them for a while now. Tomorrow, I have a mission directed to the planet Mars. I’ve done several missions before however, I’ve never been to Mars. It’s going to be new. A brand new environment. A brand new place to explore. I’ve been assigned to report anything at all. Any suspicious behavior, new substances, new organisms, anything. They’ve ...

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Space Ring

Submitted to Contest #8

"I thought we were partners! You were the first who wanted this project. And now..." Susan clapped her hand down on the keyboard, it would have broken in two if only she had hit it a little harder. "This was our ticket out of this wretched mess."The recent retail apocalypse had all of the city scrambling to make enough to feed themselves, let alone pay rent and the bills. Online business was beginning to take off and Susan desperately, since Dan had talked her into trying something new, wanted to get in before the market became oversaturated...

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The Renegade Alien Princess

Submitted to Contest #8

“How long until we reach our next planet?” a woman dressed in a red suit asked her crew who were toiling away at their computers. Outside the cockpit windows, stars and asteroids floated in the empty space air. “We will arrive very shortly Captain,” a man dressed in a blue suit, the woman’s second in command, answered at once.“We should dock in less than half a day.” “Brilliant,” the captain grinned, her green eyes sparkling in excitement.“What atmosphere are we walking into?” “We’ll be able to breathe in the atmosphere,” one of the crew at ...

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space fire

Submitted to Contest #8

Chapter 1How to become a rich man after being stuck in prison for seven long, excruciating years.  As Peter blankly sat on his bed inside of his incommodious five-foot-by-five-foot maximum security jail cell, complete with sparking electric fences and menacing guards surrounding the whole cell, he began to throw random objects at the electric fence, watching them slowly burst into miniscule flames and leave trails of smoke until finally fizzling out.  Out of boredom and an act of defiance against the orders of guards and the king, ...

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Accident on the Waterloo

Submitted to Contest #8

The alarm klaxon in this section of the ship was abnormally loud. It made Zander's head feel like someone was peeling it open. Doing her best to ignore it she pushed off from the hatch and floated weightless down the corridor. Before she got to the other side the ship unexpectedly lurched, probably under maneuvering thrusters. She was slammed into the wall and pinned against it by the momentary acceleration. Pushing off again she struggled to make it to the next hatch. The engine coolant was slowly moving closer and the living quarters would...

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The Last Five Minutes

Submitted to Contest #8

    Most spaceships are designed to give their crew members several flashing warning lights or perhaps a blaring alarm before dropping out of the sky, but my lucky streak just so happens to land me in the only one that isn’t. Here I am, hurtling towards a planet at speeds that will crush me and my crew on impact, and not a single red light to speak of. Even the little "check engine" light next to the gas valve remains stoic and dark. Insurance is never going to cover this damage.    Calypso, our wonderful comman...

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The astronaut

Submitted to Contest #8

The roar of rocket thrusters, the shaking of the shuttle, rattling the inside of the capsule invigorated me. The force of gravity made me feel as though i was melting into my seat. "We have lift off", static in my ear from the earpiece of NASA confirming we were air bound. Straight through the clouds, the ground disappearing within seconds. Instruments glowing and gages flowing, telling us the temperature and altitude.The heat of the atmosphere sucking the ship in and spitting it out into darkness. The vastness of it all was breath taking. A...

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Gisoo, the last-born human in the New Dark Ages

Submitted to Contest #8

Please sit and bear with me as you read this. In an immense amount of time from now. Not millions of years or billions of years from now. But two times ten to the power 36 amount of years. That's a two undecillion years or 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. A point when the stars will shine no more. The new dark ages of the universe. During the new dark ages, the final black holes evaporate, the last of the iron stars float in the void, the galaxies have all fallen apart, and proton decay threatens to dissolve the univ...

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A Woman's World

Submitted to Contest #8

Robert remembered the sensation of falling. He remembered the feeling of cold dread as the engine stuttered and died and his stomach dropped through the floor. He could never forget the look on his colleague’s face as the colour drained from him and his skin turned paper white.            He didn’t remember plummeting through space, searing through the planet’s atmosphere, or the deafening landing. His colleague, Martin, hadn’t been knocked unconscious and had managed to pull him from th...

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Space Desert 101

Submitted to Contest #8

We crash landed about eight months ago. It’s only an approximation because I’ve lost count of the days. The crew split up the first time someone mentioned cannibalism casually as if were an option. None of wanted to become the next textbook Donner Party.  Now I spend most days discovering new species to observe their main form of sustenance, and then I typically mimic them by eating whatever they couldn’t finish. The lizards know where all the good stuff is. There are a couple of mammal-looking creatures that are covered in hair and te...

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Cat to the Chase

Submitted to Contest #8

Thirteen moons glittered down from the smog-packed sky.  Their silvery light cast ethereal glows across the glass sidewalks and streets.  The purple gas trapped below their feet danced and spun like living creatures. As polluted as Neptune was, still beauty could be found.  Of course, Ace Lowell was too busy to seek out the beauty of his home planet.  He had a job to do. His nineteenth birthday.  This had been the day he had tossed and turned over each night.  This was the day his dream was finally supposed to c...

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Nothingness.

Submitted to Contest #8

Her hands ghost against the Paine of thick glass separating her from the void, infinite nothingness as far as one could look in the pitch black reach of death's gaze. the only thing stopping her from being scooped out into its frigid embrace was metal. Metal  and wires, a rib cage made out of nuts and bolts, with nothing but cold surfaces and sharp edges welded together that encapsulated her and the rest of her crew.She almost forgets to breathe, her lungs twisted up and tangled with a combination of unfiltered elation and deep sea...

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Space Camp

Submitted to Contest #8

“What time is it? “No time in space, mate”Kian rolled his eyes and turned from the cockpit to face Cassius. “I know that,” he said with exasperation. I mean on Earth. I want to see if I can get a last radio transmission out to the kids before they get to sleep. We’ll be out of range by the time they get up for school.” Kian yanked on the bar above him and floated out of his seat in the rear of the cabin. He floated forward, as though swimming, to a console between the cockpit and cabin, the electronics glowing blue and orange. “Looks...

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