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Posted in Science Fiction on Feb 18, 2022

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Name is Monk, Mames Monk

Submitted to Contest #134

EARTH: Year 2055 We people were so bloody busy destroying our homes with extra-ordinary capabilities in torturing each other’s communities and putting blames on others, that we often neglected the forthcoming dangers for existence of human species on planet Earth. Blinded with craziness for more power, we created the biological problems that even the smartest community of scientists were unable to address, forget about finding the solution to earlier blunders we committed. Yet, some of our own species have had a good heart and soul, w...

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The Secret Of The Primordial Flame

Submitted to Contest #134

Morriell Meadowsweet stepped out the back entrance of the Trixie Pixie into the crisp night air, adjusting the straps of his satchel more securely onto his back. The relief of quitting time was almost intoxicating; he breathed in the cool, sweet air, and exhaled hard, letting the tension from a ten-hour day over a hot stove drain away. The Trixie Pixie was the most popular nightclub in Faewyne Village. It attracted ‌all denizens, male and female, far and wide, from all walks of life. There was anything for anybody inside those walls, as well...

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Almost Like Home

Submitted to Contest #134

 Almost Like Home (1001 w) “Commander? Permission to enter the bridge?” Cool, odourless wafts pulsed through the doorway like sighs from the console-filled room, along with ponderous, mechanical, hum. “Yes, Doctor, do come in - it seems we’ve entered orbit just in time.” He smiled down at her. “Are you well? Has the morning sickness worn off yet?” “Yes, thank you, Sir. I’m … fine.” she nodded, following him to the huge viewscreen. The circular room resonated beneath their feet as the Commander spread his long, gloved arms ...

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The Planet That is No Longer a Planet

Submitted to Contest #134

“Look! Look! Lay Lay, I see Pluto!” squeals my little brother from the cockpit. I peer up from my research. Jimmy is standing on the stepstool with his tiny hands against the window. Eyes glued on a speck in the distance. His excitement is palpable, but I just cannot seem to grasp his level of exuberance. I rise from my work desk and walk over to see what he sees. I say, “Yes, I see it. It looks so tiny from here huh?” I push one of his blonde curls off his forehead to give him a light kiss. My own blonde curls fall into his face. He giggles...

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Left for Ruin

Submitted to Contest #134

Eighteen years old and I've never killed a person.  An outrage, many would call it. Others would argue and call it quite an accomplishment.  I call it life. You live with it, you deal with it, you're stuck with it, and you eventually die with it. Or, in other words, you're killed with it.  The only way anyone can survive a day in Vildran is if they don’t trust anyone and don’t give anyone a possibility to betray them. There are hardly any young people because parents don’t want another possible traitor. The few exceptions a...

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The Scarlet Thread

Submitted to Contest #134

Today was the day I feared the most. For three months, I had been living in a good friend’s rundown apartment here in Undercity, hiding like a scared, pathetic little child. I was a hunted fugitive up there in Overworld. Each year, two citizens are randomly chosen from the government database. Our number would be called, so-to-speak, and we would report very early in the morning at the Capitol on Scarlet Thread Day. By the luck of the draw, one of us would be executed in front of the Capitol before thousands of eagerly watching citizens. Tho...

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Pools of Honey

Submitted to Contest #134

I often wonder to myself, is there more than what meets the eye? From the very moment I became of existence, I have felt trapped as though I was looking from the outside in. And it had never dawned on me that maybe I really was. July 6th, 2004 at precisely 8:07 A.M. was my first sense of consciousness when the image had begun to reveal itself, a small creature laid before me. Its’ eyes sparkled into pools of honey, it was as though I had seen them before. Comfort engulfed me, my first emotion was it? I still am unsure at this point in m...

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Moonstone Match

Submitted to Contest #134

In three days, Amy would be married to a young man two years younger than her in order to keep the population of the colony prospering. Amy didn’t want to marry him. She didn’t want to marry anyone. Not yet anyway. It was going to happen on her 18th birthday. She was supposed to be excited, but instead, she felt like she was being sent to her death. She wanted to know more about the people in Earth’s history, why people did the things they did, and why she was being compelled to do something she didn’t want to do. Amy’s parents had one of th...

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Distant Horizon

Submitted to Contest #134

2068: Destination I got the best view in the god-damned solar system. From here, I can pinch the whole shebang between my thumb and first finger; sun, planets and all. And I got the rest of my life to enjoy it. Human eyes have never before seen this blue and black horizon. It goes from pale sunrise to full dark every forty-five minutes. The Sun is pretty weak here, though you still wouldn’t want to stare at it without your shades. At this distance, anything I send home takes four and a half hours, more or less, at the speed of light. I su...

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The Eighth Wanderer

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For eight years, or nearly a third of all the time I've been alive, I, along with every other human in existence, have been running from Sun Death. Millions of years ahead of schedule, our life-giving star became the end of Earth, consuming the inner planets entirely and forcing us to flee before the wave of deadly radiation sweeping across our solar system. My home is dead, and soon I will be, too. Myself, my mother, and my younger sister Clara were among the 5,000 people with the correct combination of connections and skills to secure a p...

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The Last Day on Mars

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Attention:Martian language and measurements have been translated to English and Imperial System of Units, for earthly comprehension purposes.Androse watched helplessly, as the asteroid barreled towards Mars. “Isn’t there anything we can do?” he asked.Mandera wrapped is two left arms around his son and sadly replied, “We’ve done all we could. The rest is left to God.”A tear ran down Androse’s face, as his voice cracked, “I don’t want to die.”The urge for Mandera to hold his son until the end was tempting, but there was still work to do. ...

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The oddest of all planets; Earth

Submitted to Contest #134

There I was, sitting on a picnic bench, looking up at the sky. It was beautiful, the starry night, the spaceships flying by, and who could forget the sound of the chirping of the little birds. You could even see Neptune in the distance and imagine a powerful storm was occurring. Astronomers here on Pluto have been, for decades, studying Neptune and other planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and even this bizarre planet called Earth. Scientists say Earth doesn't qualify as a planet because it is too watery and doesn't have enough landmass or ga...

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Doomsday Diary

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“Hmm, what’s this” I wonder out loud as if anyone is around to hear me. It seems like an odd-looking trinket of some kind, made of a soft metal maybe? It’s pretty badly charred and sort of… melted. ‘Could be an artificial tooth or something’, I think as I raise it to my mouth and furl the corner of my lip as if to test its fit. ‘Eh I don’t know, looks kind of weird’, I decide as I think twice about actually putting it in my mouth. At this point I’m just collecting anything that could possibly be of some use and metals always have worth, espe...

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The Death of a Universe

Submitted to Contest #134

The universe was burning. Stars were decorating the darkness like fireworks on the Fourth of July, folding in on themselves before exploding into massive bursts of energy that torched anything that dared to be in their vicinities. Meteor showers threatened to steal the spotlight from the assortment of supernovas; the minuscule rocks whistled through the air, their jagged edges threatening to tear tiny wounds into the skies’ skins. There were bodies floating about, celestial and human alike. Worlds were breaking down, moons squirming...

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Welcome to HEATHERGATE -where the streets have no name

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It has been two weeks since Garrett started carefully watching the workers on the field at the bottom of the creek. This creek starts at the top of the backdrop of Mount Geneve, for some reason Garrett sensed that something was wrong. Typical man, dressed up with dark brown trousers and jacket, slim built dark brown jacket, he looked like Indiana Jones to me. No whip, no hat. His expertise in hydraulic engineering degree was telling him there was something wrong with that permanent suspension bridge. He needed to contact the builders at the ...

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