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Submitted to Contest #305
I sat behind the wheel, staring at the glowing red stoplight hanging in the intersection. A light drizzle of rain had become a steady fall, splattering against the glass of my windshield for a split second before my windshield wiper swiped across and cleared the droplets from the surface. In the rain, I could not see the dirt and grime on the streets. Lights reflected on the black surface of the road, changing how everything looked. I imagined the reflected images of the street lights were really coming from another universe that could o...
The hyperspace tunnel collapsed. Streakes of starlight spun and filled the forward viewport in a dizzying display while my stomach turned over in response to the ships uncontrolled tumble back into real space. Warning buzzers and alarms and red blinking indicators sounded all around me, vying for my attention as I struggled to get my bearings and take a positional reading. It took only a few seconds to realize I was utterly and completely lost. "What do you MEAN, position unknown??" I exclaimed after I managed to halt the multi-axis spi...
Submitted to Contest #293
Phillip Sissell looked out the window of the monorail car across the craggy plains and distant mountains of Proxima Centari B and was struck by how cold and inhospitable the planet was. White light shone down from the sun onto the gray, rocky ground, occasionally glittering in silvery reflection on the surface of nearby frozen lakes.The sky above was gray, marred only by the large dirty clouds coughed into existence by the vast atmosphere processors. Then, as he often did, Phillip wondered what the planet would look like if he could see what...
Submitted to Contest #211
Warm red flames danced as if alive; tiny little elementals given life by the burning fire, wisps of orange and red and yellow entwined and flickering happily without a care in the world. Ezra looked on from a comfortable chair near the stone fireplace and wondered to himself thoughtfully what the flames burning in the hearth would have to say if they had voices that he could understand. Would they be pleased to be alive on this cool summer night while they caroused on the heavy logs that gave them life, or wou...
Submitted to Contest #209
"Don't suppose you're from around here. You come for the bluegrass jamboree?" The gas station attendant gave his scruffy chin a thoughtful scratch and looked over the man on the other side of the counter with the curiosity of someone not used to seeing new people. Being average height and build, the man's appearance was not distinctive in any particular way but it was plain by his clothing and manner that he was not a local. Shaking his head in answer to the question, Matt smiled slightly. "I'm not much for...
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