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The remnant times

Submitted to Contest #60

" Why are we going to the backwater planet anyway, it would be easier to just use the Tiash Lukius on them," Xhuli said, covering her obsidian coloured eyes with protective lenses. We had been warned that the sun in this particular solar system wouldn't be friendly to our eyes, not that we were supposed to stay there for long. The orders were to destroy all signs of remnant life and request for the Tiash Lukius if they even dared to put up a fight. "I've seen what the Tiash Lukius could do, and being blown to pieces was not a fate I would ...

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Reklaw and Azar - The Story of a Post Apocalyptic Writer and Publisher

Submitted to Contest #60

“Hurry up, we ain’t got all day” spoke Reklaw in a hushed tone as Azar scrambled to search for a rock.  “Tryn’ my best here you old fool,” Azar retorted as the fading daylight made it difficult for him to find a rock large enough, throwable enough, to kill the hare they’d been stalking for the last few hours. Reklaw spat contemptuously, “Next time, maybe you should make more arrows before we go out on a hunt, you lazy bastard.” “Fucking old fool can’t shoot for shit and wants me to make more arrows,” Azar muttered under his breath...

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The last human to walk the face of the earth.

Submitted to Contest #60

 It was the type of day where you just wanted to smile and remember it for ever. The sun bouncing against my windows, creating the slightest reflections of orange and yellows on my light hardwood flooring. The mid-afternoon sky that only happens on that one perfect summer day, the most beautiful of pinks and purple blending into each other. i grip my coffee with one hand and grin towards my window "God really has the most amazing plan for us" I say to myself.  As i sit down on my couch to enjoy the rest of my coffee, it happens, my...

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If The World Was Ending

Submitted to Contest #60

" Wow just great, time to turn around huh," laura said as she turned the down the left way of the forest. She had barely had enough time to grab or pack anything, all she managed to grab was, pair of black leggings. a few shirts, her phone, and a picture of her mom. Laura Jenkins was a 23-year-old woman. She always managed to find her self in deadly situations, most of them weren’t deadly they were just things like tripping in the middle of nowhere or finding getting in dangerous situations, but now this was an actual deadly situat...

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Acidifieds

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Your name is Yazmine Rosser. You are 16 years old, and its been 29 days since your acidification day. Your eyes became an unusual lime-green color, your blood gleams with the shade of gold, your body took the ‘DOUBLE-SPECIES’ form in the acidified chart of species, and your DNA transformed to be similar to the one you would find in a lioness and a leopardess. Almost 2 years ago, the seas and oceans were polluted with a substance that turned the water into a powerful acid that slowly started to consume the world. Everything it touches disint...

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The Unwalking

Submitted to Contest #60

I’m not stupid. When Teddy never came back from his supply run, I knew — I knew it! And four years later there he stood, staring directly at me from across the lot, his face half-eaten and gray and dead. The pharmacy stood quiet and tempting. Tall shadows wandered in the tinted windows. Unlike the thing that used to be my brother, they hadn’t caught my scent yet. That was the only thing keeping me from bolting for the pharmacy — that it hadn’t moved at all since I fell in range. You’d think the shell of my idiot brother would have the br...

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The Boy, The Ruins, And The Girl Who Shouldn't Have Existed

Submitted to Contest #60

The smoke-darkened sun shone weakly, casting long shadows all along the remains of what used to be a large, bustling city. There were mighty stone goliaths still standing, showing that even after an era ended, its mark on the world never faded. Some thought this was amazing. A testament to the old era’s power. Others thought it was a blight on the planet. A scar that would never heal. Jason was an optimist. He liked to believe that since these builds could survive, so could he. He was always careful when he walked through these ruins. Not ju...

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FACING A FAIRY SPIRIT

Submitted to Contest #60

We were on a tour to a far off hill station. Passing up through a thick forest, we reached on an open lush green place on the ridge. On a plain grassy patch, we took rest for a while. I was facing the setting sun from the opposite side over a mountain peak. Suddenly I saw a fairy like pretty posture in the dispersing rays of the sun. “Look over there. How a pretty she is!” I shouted. All the other three friends got focus their eyes in the direction of my hand. They could see nothing there. That fairy image was not on scene even to me. My fr...

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The Remains of Earth

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In the year of 2027 World War lll broke loose and as America was on the brink of defeat the military and their leaders gave up hope. but a sole person launched all the missiles in America's arsenal causing an all out nuclear war destroying the earth as we know it. That man’s name was Bakugou and he was my grandfather. After the war most of the survivor’s slowly died one by one from sickness and those who were left behind only mourned the deaths of loved ones lost. It's been 50 years since the war ended and most of the world has become uninha...

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Shaken Up

Submitted to Contest #60

“Your English is great,” I told her as I asked for a to-go cup.  I was doing a three month exchange program, studying the faut lines in Japan. She was a barista at a cafe. I was alone. The other students in my program had gone home already. “Your English is alright,” she smirked. She had been raised in Hong Kong. Saki had a playful smile, one that made her eyes smile, too, like crescent moons. She had a round face and a button nose, and was skinny, but toned. Saki and I did all sorts of things when we were together — we went to shrin...

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From the Top

Submitted to Contest #60

“Hey a coffee for two.” May stepped into the Meteorics Coffee Shop. Someone threw a chair into the window. Looters from the seething crowds split off and stumbled in, cutting themselves on glass shards. They started smashing more glass so they could loot the pastries. She waited patiently for the Barista. When she appeared she asked, “May I take your order?” May replied, “Yeah see I’m gonna need the strongest thing you have.” The Barista did a double take. She leaned in and whispered, “You don’t mean-?” Outside the opposing sides e...

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Ran and Sacked

Submitted to Contest #60

I went for it because I was my stomach was eating itself and all of the grocery stores had been ransacked by the outskirt bandits and their exotic animals they walked around on with computer wire leashes. The smell made me want to puke up the drugs I was coming down from but then I'd have to face the second dark ages sober. It was already brutal enough with the elite artificial intelligence soldiers guiding citizens around like domestic animals. I had found the jar of pickles clutched in the arms of an old trampled bag who had been knocked o...

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my human.

Submitted to Contest #60

This story is inspired by my dog, Raven. She's my best friend. She also loves squirrels. And she is my fiercest and most loyal protector. /// the human is close to me. he has been sitting in the middle of the road for a long time. he throws me food. sticks of beef. crumbs. they taste good. he comes closer. i like this human. it is a male. like me. he smells like dirt. but I do not mind. i like dirt. the human holds his hand out to me. his fingers are very long. and they are salty as I lick them. they taste like salt and dirt. ...

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Once Upon a Time

Submitted to Contest #60

Mae knew that Athene Barclay was beautiful. Quite frankly she couldn't imagine anyone who didn’t think so. Athene was a legend, a myth clad in leather and chain mail. She was a large figure, like a walking statue lunging straight out of a storybook, with fierce emerald eyes shadowed under fiercer dark eyebrows. But Athene was a legend, and legends weren’t a part of the real world. They were fantastic, but distant, like glittering starlight. And that, Mae had decided, was all that such a woman would ever be.oOoBy this point most folks had com...

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TIll Undeath Do Us Part

Submitted to Contest #60

Till Undeath Do Us Part by Eldridge Stimmel Her description said, “Part dead, but still loving and vital.” The picture claimed ‘early virus,’ and showed a real babe. Blonde hair, natural judging by the eyebrows, porcelain skin, blue eyes, and very dangerous curves. Even so, I’d never really put a lot into looks. I preferred brains and personality. With a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a winning smile, she seemed to have it all. The ‘Looking For’ Section had a long column marked ‘any’ next to all the traits. In the paragraph sect...

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