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The Final Flip: A High-Stakes Batey Game in the Anti-Gravity Sphere

Submitted to Contest #180

Nico had always been a survivor. Growing up in the slums of a dying planet, he had learned to adapt and to make the most of every opportunity that came his way. When the Unknown Blues arrived in their massive spaceship, offering a chance for a select few humans to leave Earth behind and start anew, Nico jumped at the chance. The immigration process was straightforward, if a little unsettling. Nico was immunized against a range of diseases, and given a crash course in the customs and technologies of the Unknown Blues. He had never seen creatu...

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Indifference

Shortlisted for Contest #180 ⭐️

Eduardo and I sat on the bluff, overlooking the factory complex in the valley below. The gritty sand beneath us was a dusty buff color, matching our sweat-encrusted camouflage clothing. The air was warm from the day-long bright sun, now moving behind the Lliama Volcano in the southern Andes, and particles of dust swirled in the air. As the sun descended, the vents and air conditioning units on the rooftops of the Chilean weapons complex flashed in the copper sunlight. I pointed into the valley. “See how they don’t open one gate until anoth...

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Knock Knock..

Submitted to Contest #180

BZZZ BZZZ BZZZ B-      -one eye closed, Ava Rangiheuea tapped her phone to silence the incessant alarm sounds that blared from it. She took note of the time on her screen - 6:01 - before unceremoniously clunking the device on the wooden side-table.   She allowed her head to collapse back onto the flat pillow, her caramel skin warm beneath the light-blue cotton layers. She loved the tranquil energy of the mornings.  It was quiet; the usually reliable Auckland traffic having not yet reached its peak hustle. Time ...

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Steps to Avoiding the Straight and Narrow

Submitted to Contest #179

2. Absorb Newport   In my very brief 18 years of life as Victoria Mendell, I say brief not because at 18 years old I am still young, but because at 18 there is not much in life that I can recall, I have never known a slight like this. The cool breeze makes its way underneath the layers of my winter coat as I stand looking towards a startling view of the Atlantic on the balcony of a home rich with history and memories. An untouchable legacy that I have been waiting to explore since the moment I learned about the age from which ...

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Knight in Shining Armor

Submitted to Contest #179

Angela woke in a cold sweat, again. It was absurd. This was the twenty first century. Knights in shining armor didn't rescue damsels in distress anymore. The damsels rescued themselves, and that crap about riding into the sunset.... She was content to be single, thank you very much. Her eyes finally focused on that stupid card a friend had given her, a name and a number. That's when the dreams had started, but this time had been different. She'd cried out, "Kevin, HELP ME!" Had she really said that out lou...

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Climax Street

Submitted to Contest #179

“Again!” Mr. Nox snarled. “Colvin, a corpse could shoot better than that!”For the twenty-first time that day, I had missed my target by a matter of twenty metres. The lightbulb I had shattered had landed upon the mountain of ceiling tiles that I had amassed on the floor. My heart was racing at light speed and the room was a vibrating blur of colours, yet I steadied my hands and fired the slender, black gun. The bullet ricochetted off of the back door, before embedding itself onto the far wall, a full ten metres from the silhouette....

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The Dream Catcher and His Wife

Submitted to Contest #179

Late at night, loud laughter emanates from the club where people cheer and talk loudly while the barman pours drink after drink. The door swings open and a man steps in. He is dressed all in black with a ski mask hiding his face and a revolver at his belt. He stands just inside the doorway, head held high while the disco lights blare and deafening music plays. Without warning, he pulls out his revolver and the whole room falls silent. He aims the gun at the barman’s heart and fires. The barman is dead before his head hits the floor, one hand...

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A Kiss in the Void

Submitted to Contest #179

Detective Arthas Jacques reached for his pistol. Agent Belle Nguyen was dead and he’d just watched it, among a crowd of scoundrels.Blood poured out of her heart onto the stage. She’d died for show, a demonstration. He would have revenge.“Please. Everyone. Calm down,” said the host. Instead of being there in person the scientist behind Deus ex Sapiens was using a virtual presence device to hide his identity. The droid was a sparkling decedance that put even Arthas’ Spectrum droid to shame. “Though Miss Nguyen is quite dead for now, I can assu...

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About Time

Submitted to Contest #179

The castle was crowded. Cinderella stood in a corner of the ballroom on a dais. As she looked out over the crowd she saw his head and shoulders bobbing up and down in the lively Minuet. His royal highness was dancing with a blonde and blue-eyed thing that looked like she weighed no more than a feather. Cinderella shook herself and looked in the opposite direction. Why hadn’t the Prince noticed her? She knew her own fairytale by heart, and being stuck living it on repeat had made her particularly familiar with the details of it. So then why i...

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Resolved

Submitted to Contest #179

“Man, what the fuck am I doing here?” Doug said. His zip-tied wrists and ankles hurt and he had lost feeling in his hands. With each unanswered question he felt more panic course through his blood. He could feel the guy’s presence in the shadows ahead. When he first came to, he had been confused. The last thing he could recall was leaving the bar. He had walked out toward his GMC Denali in the back lot. He remembered he had found the last parking spot because he was early, before the New Year’s Eve crowd. He had wedged the big...

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End of a Season

Submitted to Contest #178

At the dawn of the day he woke up from his flat thin mattress with a severe backache. In the tiny room he noticed his children one on top of the other in the corner floor mat, snoring in unison,. Without much delay he washed and rushed to the bus station, navigating the forest of people clustered at the old station, his steps dividing men and women and slipping through the pockets of space to make it on time. The season was fast approaching and his work was always heavy this time of the year. When the factory clock horned at six he was alr...

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A Loving New Year

Submitted to Contest #179

As LaTosha sits at her desk New Years eve of 2022 wondering what Mike has planned for the night her boss taps her on her shoulder and she turns around her boss has twelve dozen roses in a beautiful vase and hands them to LaTosha she sits them on her desk thinking how sweet Mike is. Mike sent a message on a card telling her that he will pick her up at three. Mike starts to make reservations for their night hoping that she is going to enjoy everything he has planned for them. After Mike makes all...

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YOU COULD BET YOUR LIFE ON IT

Submitted to Contest #179

Bucky McKeever was sick and tired of not having it all. Everywhere he looked, he saw men living large; high on the hog, if you will. As a low-level manager at a large investment firm, he was surrounded by the high-voltage energy of day-trading and financial wheelings and dealings. His boss, Mr. Jonathan Stevens, a man of only 35, was already a multi-millionaire; a graduate of Wharton Business School and a mergers and acquisitions expert, he could earn more in one deal than Bucky made in a lifetime.  As the New Year approached, Bu...

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Billie and the Great Red Spot

Submitted to Contest #178

Billie's birthday happened to fall on a very special holiday for the residents of her city. A Jovian New Year only happens once every 11.9 Earth years, after all. The research station where Billie and her family live, New Alexandria, orbits Jupiter every 400 days and is home to 10,000 people. Billie came home from school the day before her birthday at a dead sprint, banging the door to her family's living quarters open already halfway through a conversation she’d been waiting to have all day, as if she'd been barely holding it in the ent...

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Soul Bears

Submitted to Contest #178

An unknown force created four souls for 4 dolls out of thin air. A panda named peter Panda, a Black bear named Artie, a polar bear named May, and a red panda action figure named Red, were all suddenly alive but with translucent bodies, looking at their own actual, inanimate bodies on a hospital bed next to a girl they quickly recognized as their best friend. "Hi," uttered a seemingly sad humanoid resembling a generic angel as she approached the dolls from behind. "I understand that none of you can speak, so let me explain since you are all a...

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