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Weekly Contest #342
I was sitting on the park bench that me and Martha used to sit on, overlooking a small lake in the park, across the street from our cozy bungalow home. It had been six months since I had lost Martha and without her my life had become routine and lonely. “Hi Stanley, how are you doing” called a voice from behind me. It was Dave, my next door neighbor. He and his wife Betty had lived next to us for twenty years and they were good friends of ours. “Oh, I’m okay, I guess. I was just sitting here remembering the walks me and Martha’s used to take...
Weekly Contest #341
“Bring him back” yelled Director Stevens. “We’re trying sir, but the cross-dimensional flux is unstable and we can’t get a fix on him.” The pad in the center of the room was pulsating with energy. A three meter globe of blue-white energy forming, then fading above the pad. Cables running from several super computers fed power to the three meter pad. Four lasers positioned above and equal distance around the pad fired bursts of energy into the globe at precise calculated moments trying to stabilize the energy. The super computers making billi...
Weekly Contest #340
“Alright, it’s about time, everyone geared up and ready to go?” asked Wolf, as he put on his black leather jacket and picked up his sawed off shotgun. It had a wooden stake strapped to the top of the barrel that extended a foot past the barrel with a sharpened point. “Hell yeah” said Kade, “lets do this.” He picked up his repeating crossbow, slapping a magazine of wooden stake bolts in the top, on his vest he had spare magazines stuffed in the pouches. Yara just nodded as she was whipping her samurai sword around in a fluid motion ending wit...
Weekly Contest #339
I woke up suddenly, a harsh odor of smoke, ash and sulfur filling my senses. The fog of sleep cleared as I came to the realization that something was on fire. I sprang out of bed in my nightshirt and shorts, scanning the room for any signs of fire. I rushed barefoot into the hallway searching for the source of the smell. At the staircase the scent was stronger, so I hurried down the stairs. At the front entryway I stopped and inspected the first floor. No visible signs of a fire anywhere. The kitchen, the odor was stronger from that directio...
Weekly Contest #338
As a collector of antiquities I felt like a kid in a candy store. This shop called ‘The Lost Age’ I had stumbled upon, had artifacts and relics that looked to be thousands of years old. They had to be fake was my first thought, since artifacts that old were only found in museums. There were Egyptian, Mayan, Persian, ancient Greece and China relics as well as many others. Pottery, jewelry, sculptures, ancient devices and manuscripts filled the shop’s shelves. As I wandered down an isle near the back of the shop my eye was drawn to a shelf of...
Weekly Contest #337
Bounty hunting is a thankless job. You hunt down the vicious criminals and gangsters the federation authorities can’t find; or the ones they can’t reach, because they’re hiding in the border worlds beyond federation authority. The criminals you hunt want you dead, your fellow bounty hunters will betray or kill you to steal your bounty and your clients see you as low or lower than the gangsters your hunting. It’s very dangerous work, but the pay is very good; that is if you live long enough to spend it, and….. I’m very good at it. I’m on Delp...
Weekly Contest #336
A incandescent light blazed like the core of a new-born star, then sudden blackness enveloped all like a black hole consuming everything. A second, a minute, a millennium passed. Time had no meaning here, wherever here was or wasn’t. There was nothing at all, a bleakness without end, as if the universe was never born. Then, without warning or prelude two figures stood facing each other where the blackness had just been. Two old men stood there staring at one another. “Who the hell are you” said the one man to the other. His cross eyes were ...
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