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Taking a Chance

Submitted to Contest #60

The highway I was traveling on looked as someone had decided it was a worthwhile target for missiles. It didn't just have pot-holes; it had overlapping craters the size of large houses. The overpass ahead of us had mostly collapsed. All sorts of vehicles were scattered about. Some dangling over the edges of the overpass, others blown off the highway and into the ditches alongside it. Some animals were already searching through the wreckage, looking for food.I stopped the car near an elk and asked, “Is there a detour anywhere?”“My maps are ou...

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Love

Submitted to Contest #60

Love is a strange thing. Love can pull you apart. Love can put you back together. Love can change the way you think. Love can dislike you. Love can like you. It all just depends, I guess. It was 2023, and the coronavirus had finally settled down that it was like the flu. There was a season for it, but there was also a vaccine. Nothing to worry about. The economy and stock market were building itself back up, and things were starting to be pre-corona normal again. I was at my normal job, not wearing a mask, and not working from home. It w...

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Running from Fear

Submitted to Contest #60

Henry was running, running as fast as he could. He ran past the empty streets of what used to be his home and the alleys where he used to play.  He ran past his school and all the places he used to know. He ran faster and thought his heart mise well beat right out of his chest. He could feel the adrenaline in his blood, but he didn’t care; he was just focused on running. Running and running and running. He didn’t need to be the fastest, just faster than those behind him. The zombies were blood-thirsty things and he didn’t want to die to...

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The 7th Corpse

Submitted to Contest #60

I remember the day of the first apocalypse. Bridget was watching the Disney Channel, Mom was cooking in the kitchen, and Dad was sitting in the armchair, glasses on and newspaper in hand. That was the last moment of normal I ever knew. It was 5 years ago, I was only 14 years old. I can’t forget that. It was the single most horrifying moment of my life. Sirens started to wail as our door burst open, making us all jump. I remember the one that had ended my family’s life. It was a mature adult male, it’s nose and most of its fingers missing. A...

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If the world was ending 🌏

Submitted to Contest #60

"What's going on?" I scream, sprinting across the field towards my best friend. Shle's running too. I think the world is ending. I'm being chased by some kind of monster. They were peope, and I know, because I watched them change. They have pale green skin, and sharp nails. Their teeth grew into fangs, and now they have bird feet. "Dezi!" Marci shouts. She's been my best friend since we were in kindergarten. She has long black hair pulled into a ponytail, and tan skin. She's on the track, and basketball team. She comes from a really rich f...

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The River South- Excerpt from the Kara Mason Story

Submitted to Contest #60

I can’t get enough air into my lungs. I’ve never been good at running uphill. I look back over my shoulder to see if the creature is still following us. It’s on its knees, mud smeared across a bloody and distorted face. Its gnarled maw hangs open too wide and I can see teeth through the nearly transparent flesh. I hold my breath, waiting to see if it will get back up again. My lungs scream for air to fuel my body’s upward plight. I suck in air at the same time as I collide with Hank’s pack, forcing me to look where I’m going. The creature le...

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Welcome to Sram

Submitted to Contest #60

Welcome to Sram A New and Bette4 World That is the first thing I remeber seeing in front of me when I woke up from a rather sleepless dream. I seemed to be in a white sterile room which smelled of rubbing alcohol and antiseptic.  There was a fresh cool air coming through a vent above me, and the purest white paint on the walls I had ever seen. As I continued looking around the room, I noted the scarcity of furniture.  There was a single chair, a hook on the wall, with the clothes that I remembered wearing before I fell asleep...

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The Last Human

Submitted to Contest #60

     There were lights and sirens going off everywhere around them as they were rushed out of the hospital with their child who was born just an hour before the disaster happened. No one knew how it started but one thing they did know was they needed to RUN. So they did, but little did they know it was too late. They knew their child had no hope of surviving this with them so they went to one of the last robots on earth who was on their side, hoping he could help. When the three got to the robot’s shack they were war...

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The Bite

Submitted to Contest #60

My leg wouldn’t leave me alone.  I could feel a slight tension over my thigh, like someone was touching my skin. The pants had now two small cuts over the bite, they wouldn’t catch attention, they were casual. I didn’t know what to do, what would have happened after. Would I transform myself? How long would it take for that to happen? I wasn’t feeling any different, I could only sense the physical pain.  I tightened my belt over my hips, rotating it to partially cover my thigh with one of the small bags.   Could I tell so...

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The Last People on Earth

Submitted to Contest #60

It was winter, and it was snowing. The snowflakes of it's different directions was a beautiful cold compass. And Owen was in his house looking out at his window. It was lovely to see the shining snowflakes of winter sparkling down to the ground. His little sister, Mary, was in her red scarf and making a snowman. All the cotton candy snow were piling up on everywhere. The snow settled itself on the roof Owen's house. Night fell. It was still snowing, and the stars in the sky matched lovely with the winter season. There were hardly people outs...

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The Empty-Full Wild

Submitted to Contest #60

Some people said it was the best thing to ever happen to mankind. Others called it The Catastrophe. How mnemonic. I found it kind of humorous that the people who believed that The Catastrophe will have the best impact on our planet, were the same people whose lives had been insured long before it even happened, living in air-conditioned metal shacks, eating processed food while others, like us, can starve and die of heat stroke. Why? Because we were unlucky. We were unlucky prior to The Catastrophe, so we shall remain unlucky forever. I ...

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...And that's how we met

Submitted to Contest #60

James rubbed his eyes. His wings were nearly drooping. It had been a long day. He looked around him. His bedroom was always a comfort. He sank back into the plush pillows which he had just got up from. He stretched his arm in front of his face, examining his palm. “What am I even doing?” he mumbled to himself. He hadn’t signed up for this in the first place. It was all his parents’ doing. Meet James, a devil-in-training…. In his teens. His parents had been assistant devils, and they wanted him to carry on the legacy after they retired and th...

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Into my arms.

Submitted to Contest #60

I can't go on anymore, my right leg is bleeding, I cut myself when falling from a building when I was running away from three creatures. I managed to carry myself with one leg until now, but the cut is open and I keep bleeding. The hunger is beaten me, for days without eating properly, my last bottle of water I kept as if it were a more precious commodity, in a lost world it is. I lost back then. That nightmare started a year ago when the world started to turn into chaos, people dying and coming back to life-like monsters. At first, I didn't...

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SADAKO SASAKI

Submitted to Contest #60

This is historical nonfiction, about the valour and courage of a two-year-old Japanese girl who, not minding her tender age fought with Leukemia which had killed thousands of people around Japan. She was one of the people who lost her life on a hospital bed while praying for peace around the world and harmony among mankind. She was sick on a bed for 10 years but never lost optimism. People around the world did not forget her courage and in her memoir, a peace park at Hiroshima was built with her statue.There are thousands of books and n...

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Daedalus

Submitted to Contest #60

A setting sun painted the town with a red glow, the sky clear of clouds, birds and even dragons as it had been for days. Only silence prevailed, from the once fortified northern wall - now lying in ruins – to the southern temple desecrated by battle, not a whisper to be heard within its confines nor for miles beyond. Except one sound, one lone figure trudging with ever fleeting hope in search of life – battered, burned, broken. This was Thaerun. His eyes were sunken with exhaustion, his face pale from lack of sustenance and his body quiverin...

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