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Submitted to Contest #328
When the ship fell from the sky, no one fired.It wasn’t restraint. It was hesitation. The distress signal had been tracked for 14 days. The vessel smoldered in the mountains, broken ribs of metal jutting from its hull like bones.They emerged, limping. Human-like torsos and limbs, but heads like octopuses. Their translator devices blinked green as they bowed.They said their planet had died screaming.Oceans first. Then soil. Then sky.Civil war only hastened what starvation had already begun.What few survived fled in silence, guided only by the...
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