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The Stars Told Me Congratulations

Submitted to Contest #80

“T-2 minutes. Crew members, close and lock your visors.” The robotic voice boomed throughout the space shuttle. My stomach was sick. The scientists had told me that everything would be okay. They had evidence to back that up. Even so, the things that might go wrong plagued my mind. The engine could fail. The shuttle could run out of fuel. Communications could — “T-10 seconds. Activating the main engine hydrogen burnoff system.”  The space shuttle rumbled as it came to life. My stomach did not feel any better, and I felt as if I wa...

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The Theto Region

Submitted to Contest #80

The TV blares in the other room, "Our new president Ella Lewis has now made her first decree as president. She has put forth the decision to divide everyone into the United States into their categories based on the personality test that has now been shipped to your house. Please open the box and return to the TV." I get up and walk over to the TV to see my parents with the box in front of them. "Sweetie come here. We need to take the personality test." I walk over to my mom. She hands me a pill. I stare at her and she says, "You have to swa...

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IUSTITIA COLLOCUTIO

Submitted to Contest #80

TIM:              Hello loyal listeners! It's Thursday April 11th, 1996. You're listening to Tim and Maura in the morning.MAURA:       On today's show, we're celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Unveiling Day.TIM:              All week we've been teasing a big surprise.MAURA:       The time has come to reveal how we plan to comm...

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Ain Jalut

Submitted to Contest #80

Galilee, June 1306 It was already summer in the village of Zir'in. Young Ahmad had finished his morning chores and went looking for shade under the olive tree next to the road. His grandfather was already there, sitting on his stool and staring off at the clouds. Ahmad wanted to say hello, but his grandfather appeared lost in thought. The boy sat down cross-legged and looked at the clouds Grandfather was studying. This became somewhat of a routine over the next few weeks. One evening Ahmad asked his father why grandfather stared at the c...

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The Extinction of Materiality

Submitted to Contest #80

Today was yet another day filled with the monotony that is life. Awakening to the everlasting cawing of the crows outside his house, Wyatt arose from his elongated slumber to the stabbing light reflecting inwards from his window, immediately going over to shut the blinds, avoiding contact with the outside world at all costs, due to the distinct lack of anything it had given him throughout his depressing monologue of life for 24 years. Expecting nothing but despondency, he began his daily doomscrolling through the news, upon performing this r...

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The shot heard around the world

Submitted to Contest #80

The shot heard around the world  Golf on the moon! To truly learn about these two subjects let us explore. In the time that has passed in space exploration, since the first artificial satellite in 1957, astronauts have traveled to the moon and back, probes have explored the solar system, and instruments in space have discovered thousands of planets.  Sputnik 1 A Elementary Satellite was the first artificial earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into lower earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It orbited for three weeks before ...

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Survivors

Submitted to Contest #80

I never expected this...then again when does anyone? When does someone who has never done something significant in their life suddenly have to deliver a speech in front of people who could possibly die if something went wrong? Someone who had been preparing for something like this someone who wanted something like this. So in other words, not me. Not someone as insignificant as me. Now I have a lot of people looking at me for wisdom for what they should do.  “Are you ready?” A voice in front of me asks. I turn away from the car window ...

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Surfer Girl I Love You

Submitted to Contest #80

My girlfriend (Evangeline) and I decided to go to dinner to our favorite Steak House. We own a place in Big Sky country Montana. Initially we purchased it so we would have a place to retire to that had clean air, friendly neighbors, great outdoor activities, incredible scenery, and very low taxes (No Sales Tax). That was the plan. We fell in love with the area and people almost immediately and could not wait to return as often as our work and other life activities would allow. Eventually we moved full time to Montana, so much for well laid p...

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The Dream Father

Submitted to Contest #80

Could you repeat that? Aha... well... It’s hard to tell, really. Time here doesn’t really flow the same way as you’re used to, so I can’t say that I wake up at the same time. I probably sleep routinely the same amount of your time. And I sleep for a long time, thousands of your years, right here. What we’re walking on is a hyper-dense remnant of what was an entire galaxy. Nothing here can really take any form, the insides of a black hole don’t really allow for that, so I had to be a little creative. I took up all the broken up matter ...

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The Rock

Submitted to Contest #80

Diary preamble. I never thought of myself as a diary person. My life was simply to dull and mundane to document. That is till the middle of 2023. This was when I began to try to record the deluge of extraordinary events of that year, and the years that followed. The diary account you have found here was my underwhelming attempt to capture what I saw and what I learnt about the event that would change the course of life on earth. The Earth completely changed in a day, which took a year. A change that no living thing could deny. A profound...

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What is Happening?

Submitted to Contest #80

The sky roared with sodden rain, crying huge teardrops of cold water. The ground was flooded with the immense amount of icy, chilling rainwater. It covered the houses and rushed past the roads rapidly. It smothered the windows and dripped like blood onto the damp ground. Draped across some cars were thick, grey bits of hail that resembled lifeless entities smothered all over the last living beauty of the world.    Storms brewed on the emotionless horizon, promising nothing but winds to level even the mightiest of trees. Torr...

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French Revolution: A Girl, A March, A New World

Submitted to Contest #80

Brown waves flew back as the girl ran through the streets of France, her blue eyes filled with confusion as she stumbled past the patisserie on the corner of the road and made her way into a white-stoned building. Elaine Thomas fought to catch her breath as she entered her apartment- a large, two-bedroom that looked over a river. Elaine sighed as she made her way to her room, sat at her worktable, and opened her journal.Today, July 14, 1789, we were dismissed from classes early because they stormed the Bastille Prison. There was so much comm...

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Lucy Wins? (Excerpt from The End)

Submitted to Contest #80

Kevin's POV The press was there from all around the world and as she walked out onto the front porch, followed by the rest of us, they scrambled to get ready. When it seemed that they had sorted themselves out, Lucy stepped down onto the top step and said, “Hello.”     A few of them returned her greeting and laughed, not at her, with her. “I have never had a press conference before, so I have no idea what to do,” she said simply.     One of them handed her a microphone and shouted that h...

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Space

Submitted to Contest #80

Jane and her mother sat transfixed in front of the computer screen; the blood drained from their faces. Neither said a word. This is not at all what they were expecting when they woke up this morning, excited to see their brother and son. Watching a comet collide with Mars and obliterate all life is not something one expects to see on a random Wednesday morning. Growing up, Jason was obsessed with everything related to space. He was forever going on about becoming and astronaut when he was small and later dreaming about studying space engine...

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Murder Mittens

Submitted to Contest #80

WARNING- Blood, violence, and death are shown in the story. If these make you uncomfortable stop reading here. :)  Cora sat on the couch her arm folded in her lap, her mother was in the kitchen preparing dinner. It smelled good as the warm scent drifted into the living room.  “Hey Cora?” Her mom called from the kitchen, poking her head out of the doorway, “Can you find something to watch please? Dinner will be done soon and your sister is on her way home from track practice.”  “Okay.” Cora said reaching for the remote, “W...

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