Write about a character preparing to go into stasis for decades (or centuries).

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“The Long Night” by Joseph Morganella

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"Callisto Base to Genesis, Commander DeSanto, telemetry shows you approaching the last dwarf planet, Eris. Can you give us a status update, before final prep?" Commander Miguel DeSanto turned to his co-pilot, Captain Sandra Niccola, "This is it, Sandy, we're the intergalactic pioneers, the first explorers to leave the solar system." Sandra Niccola tossed her long black hair as she turned to flash her stunning smile at the commander, "Can't believe we're finally here. So many years, seems like yesterday we left Olympus Base on Mars to travel ...

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“Sunday” by Dan Bilinski

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It's a special Sunday, I really don't know that it, it just feels like it, school starts tomorrow which is a huge minus but other than that I'm feeling good. Well I was feeling good then mum took my laptop out of my hands, ‘Bedtime’ she says with the mum look. She walks out of the room and I get changed into my red and blue striped pajamas. I can hear mum telling Riley to go to sleep too, Riley is my identical twin. I couldn't stop thinking about Geelong cats final tonight that mum wouldn't let me watch, I hopped into bed and fell aslee...

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“The Nightmares Had Just Begun” by Emma Rose

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“Happy birthday Highness.”A smile stretched across my face. I should’ve known he’d be the first one to think to look for me here. “Oh, hush. Don’t remind me,” I opened my eyes, shading my face with my hand and peering up at his face looking down on me. “I came out here to forget about all that nonsense.”It was springtime and life was perfect. Well, not quite perfect. The fact remained that I was one year older, one year closer…..“This time next year……”“Oh, hush,” he complained, laying down in the grass beside me. “Don’t remind...

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“I always smile but my eyes are sad ” by Daniel Brown

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I have a charmed life with hired hands who wait on me, friends who appear out of nowhere with a phone call, and the heavy job of being some wealthy girl’s boyfriend. I am afforded luxuries I can't spell from names I wasn't taught to pronounce but this is a precious life. It is my precious life and neither death nor age will fracture my youth. I will be eternal in this 23-year-old cocoon flung into a future everyone around me will be too deceased to experience with me. I hear the process is something about cryogenic stasis which I can't spell...

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“Sheol” by Matthew Eubanks

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There was fighting from the other side of the door about what kind of funeral the family would have. I listened for a few minutes as a woman's voice swung from raging fury to a sort of logical masochism. She moved from chaos to militant order, from weeping to the casket to the flowers and food for mourners.Then I heard a man's voice say, “He's not going to be dead. We don't need a funeral.”The woman on the other side started crying again. They cannot choose. The choice is impossible.The room I had been summoned to was at the far end of the I...

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“The Buraq” by Mehreen Ahmed

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The Buraq by Mehreen Ahmed In the darkest hour of a summer’s afternoon, the clouds gathered in an elegant mass of deep grey. Mugginess hung thick in the atmosphere. Pushpa Pervez sat curled up on a reclining chair in the far end corner of her balcony. Inhaling a cocktail mix of air made of pungent rain and perfumed gardenias, she looked at a retinue of ants climbing up the balcony wall. She snapped at a minuscule black fly, hovering over her upturned nose; she ruminated, ‘well now, finally some rain, long overdue.’ The horrid black flie...

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“How to Say Goodbye” by Nathan Clift

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“I need you to be the one to lay me down,” Fiona told her brother. The two hadn’t seen each other in a long time, and in fact, Paul was the one that said he never wanted to see her again. He was confused, so she entered his apartment. “What?” was all he could say. Fiona started making herself a cup of coffee as Paul was trying to figure everything out. “Paul,” Fiona began, “it begins tomorrow. This is my last day.” Paul zoned out as Fiona was shaking her sugar packet. As she was pouring it in, he stopped her. “It can’t be today.” Fiona sighe...

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“A Good Night's Sleep” by M!!!!!!! C!!!!!!!!

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“Ten thousand dollars.” “Ten thousand? For taking a nap?” Enzo thought he was hearing things. He’d witnessed the bizarre and downright concerning almost every day since moving to the city, but this was almost laughable. Served him right for calling the number on a subway advertisement. Now he was having his time wasted. Enzo Lyle was not a fan of wasted time. Still, he had been considering taking a vacation. When an ad for one of the last brick-and-mortar travel agencies left in the world caught his ...

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“A Mourning After” by Shawn Henderson

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It was the first morning after, when I woke in my bed and found the space beside me empty that I felt completely lost. A sadness enveloped me. It echoed with the reverberation of the airship engines as it navigated the cloudy skies. Today was the day. I rose from my slumber, listless and alone. I made my way towards the window next to the bed and gazed at the skyline. It was grey, rain clouds filled the entire landscape below. The weather matched my mood. Dark and clouded. This was her favorite season, fall in the pacific. This all...

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“The Sacrifice in Forever” by ELLA CROWDER

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I looked at my best friend Paul in his large radioactive protection suit standing across the room. It would be a long time until I could see him again face to face. A long time until I could fistbump him in the lab after a discovery. A long time until I could hug him without a protective suit. I could see tears falling down his face inside of the suit. We had been best friends working together on radioactive isotopes for years. Eventually, after years of hard work together on engineering nuclear power, I told him my secret. I was a va...

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“Winning Ticket Blues” by Christopher Cayen-Cyr

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One in forty-seven million. Those were the odds of winning. The thought never even crossed Sarah’s mind while buying the ticket. It was nothing but a piece of paper, good to be shoved in her pocket in the name of a vague daydream and discarded after the wrong numbers had been drawn. Yet, there she was, paralyzed in the middle of the living room, one of the winning combinations in her hand. It was as though the walls were caving in, ready to crush her. She put on her coat and rushed out of the microscopic apartment into the snowstorm. Somet...

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“Some Day Soon” by Djo F

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When was the last time I felt at home on this earth? I like to think this is a fleeting thought, but it recurs more often than my landlords emails demanding some extortionate amount of money. Even back then, all those years, I was never truthfully at ease among the people, never honestly wanted to be there. I could never stand still so maybe this was always supposed to be my path. It feels like only yesterday the horses and their carriages were becoming cars in there garages. Now the cars are in the skies and the horses are nowhere to be fou...

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“Preparing To Say Goodbye” by Breeze-Amethyst Gallagher

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My name is Erika, and I am about to go into Stasis. This is my life story, written by my mother, Roselyn. 3rd October 2461 “Ever since I found out I was pregnant my life has been flipped upside down. The pregnancy was fantastic in itself, but the threat of a child caused my husband to divorce and abandon me. Despite him leaving me and taking half of our assets, I was left the house and all of my money was still mine, thank goodness for prenups. After my daughter Erika was born, life got even harder. Now, her condition has gotten so bad, sh...

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“The Crisis of Stasis Unit 122” by Gordon K

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The year is 2085 and a derelict building sits alone in a dead wasteland, a place that long ago was known as Bradford, England. That was then and this is now and no human has set foot in this place for several years. It should have been a special day for a man who had lived long ago, a man called Thomas Sanderson, but where is he now? Within the building the floor on the ground level has caved in and beneath the debris and rubble there is a machine that was forgotten about long ago. This was not how it was supposed to be. Let’s turn the ...

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“I Wish Earth Well” by Chet McHenry

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When I was ten I created the Inverse Ionic Engine (IIE). An engine the size of a lawnmower yet having the ability to reach speeds nearing the speed of light or, in layman’s terms, two hundred ninety nine miles per second. It was an astonishing accomplishment for someone my age and yet I felt no elation. The solution to manufacture this engine came to me as if it would a normal five year old adding one and one together to make two. I was an abnormality and at age twelve began my isolation from human interactio...

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Write about a character preparing to go into stasis for decades (or centuries).

Submissions are closed

✍️ 108 stories

“The Long Night” by Joseph Morganella

“Sunday” by Dan Bilinski

“The Nightmares Had Just Begun” by Emma Rose

“I always smile but my eyes are sad ” by Daniel Brown

“Sheol” by Matthew Eubanks

“The Buraq” by Mehreen Ahmed

“How to Say Goodbye” by Nathan Clift

“A Good Night's Sleep” by M!!!!!!! C!!!!!!!!

“A Mourning After” by Shawn Henderson

“The Sacrifice in Forever” by ELLA CROWDER

“Winning Ticket Blues” by Christopher Cayen-Cyr

“Some Day Soon” by Djo F

“Preparing To Say Goodbye” by Breeze-Amethyst Gallagher

“The Crisis of Stasis Unit 122” by Gordon K

“I Wish Earth Well” by Chet McHenry

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Write about a character who can suddenly only “remember” their future, not their past.

Write about a character who’s had their future foretold from birth — but isn’t sure if they believe it.

Write about two characters on the verge of a life-changing event, but one has rigged the outcome.

Write about a character putting something into a time capsule.

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