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Submitted to Contest #279
Nick set down on the helipad, using the distant light of still-burning Denver to help guide him into position. The light dusting of snow on the helipad blew away as Nick hovered and then landed. His skids bounced once on the concrete pad before he powered the craft down and hopped out. In the winter moonlight, the snow on the mountainside reflected upward as pale as a funeral shroud. He cursed to himself. He should have remembered to look for footprints before he landed, any sort of clue that anyone had been here. He was praying to find surv...
Submitted to Contest #273
Derek first became aware that there might be trouble tonight when the enormous man with pages from the Bible duct-taped to his body armor stuck a rifle barrel under Derek’s nose. The man appeared from the nighttime shadows and poked the weapon through the security hut’s open window. “Where is it?” The man’s English was heavily accented with some Eastern European dialect. “Whoa, hey, whoa, I’m not looking for any trouble.” Derek instinctively jerked back and tried to stand up and back away. The cheap plastic lawn chair in the security hut to...
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