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Weekly Contest #379
The Galactus hummed through the vacuum of space. I didn’t mind the noise since it all but completely shut out my tinnitus. Some of the other crew found it annoying at first, but all got used to it over the first few weeks. Our assignment was to prospect deep space asteroids, and planets, for precious metals. A very lucrative assignment indeed, unfortunately not reflected in our pay. Everyone but the officers was still paid hourly, but now including sleep and travel time, a benefit of the worker’s rebellion of 2078. Alas, the workers did not ...
Weekly Contest #377
The gray light of a cloudy afternoon couldn’t diminish the beauty of the autumn leaves. They floated from the trees along the hiking path, crunched beneath my boots, and occasionally the wind would sweep them off the ground, flinging them into a waltz in front of us. The trees shepherded us forward, like sentinels to either side of the path, enclosing us with their golden-orange canopy. Matt kept a steady pace as I slowed and then tried to catch him again. I asked him to slow down earlier, but he seemed incapable of keeping that in mind. He ...
Weekly Contest #302
The forest was not still as Maydawny walked to the creek. Birdsong echoed through the canopy, fluttering and brushing against leaves and branches. Insects buzzed from every direction, scuffling through the leaf-litter. Maydawny listened to the sounds as she walked, picturing the beasties in her mind as she heard them. A shiny black beetle rustled the leaves she had just kicked up, a Purple Finch flapped its wings as it perched in the branches in front of her. It squawked at her defiantly. “How dare you come so close to my nest? To my babies?...
Weekly Contest #220
Your mother visits you in your dreams. Her arms tight around you, a little too tight, but you don’t mind. Her lips are soft as she presses them a little too firmly to your forehead. Your father is there too, he picks you up and holds you close to his heart. Thump, thump… thump, thump, his heart always beats a tad quicker when you’re in his arms. Exacerbating his existing arrhythmia. Now you are running through the grass, your parents watch with glee as you stumble and tumble. Undeterred, you prop yourself back up on all fours. The smell of f...
Weekly Contest #197
The ice sheets trembled under the glaring sun’s rhythmic beating. For ten millennia the earth warmed and peeled back the layers of ice stacked atop its swirling crust, shaking off the ice age for conditions favoring new life and fledgling civilization. The splintering of the ice awoke Lazarus from his slumber, to a lesser being the crunching and cracking would've heralded the apocalypse; but to Lazarus it rang the dinner-bell of opportunity. While he slumbered beneath the frozen peaks, he was not completely removed from the happenings on the...
Weekly Contest #186
“Daddy, where do babies come from?” “Well sweet-cheeks, that’s a complicated question, I’m not sure you’ll be able to understand even if I tell you.” “I want to know! I want to know! I want to know I wanna know I wannanow! I wannanooooo!” “Ok, ok, stop, OW! Stop waving your fists around!” “My friend said his parents told him but that he couldn’t tell me because I’m too small.” “You know it’s not nice to hit people. Settle your little fists down.” “Ok.” “Quit jumping around too, if you want me to tell you, you have to settle down. Here...
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