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Sarah L.

Weekly Contest #337

Have no fear—Trust the Eve Manuscripts Eve protects—Traticus will end us all Have no worry—Traticus shines bright Traticus relives all worries The messages floated through space in the communication waves, carved into the light side of dead planets, painted into the side of Eve ships, and blasted onto abandoned temples across the galaxy. Bold messages clogging the pipes of an emptying infinity. Mercury’s Messenger floated through empty space, through the debris of fallen planets, torn war ships, and long dead stars. The world outside of th...

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Le Carte Rouge

H.e. Ross

Weekly Contest #338

CW: Contains mature themes and sexual content Angie saw that I had that stupid smile that says I know what life is all about as I joined her back on the street. I shoulder bumped her to communicate something good has happened. We were on the way to the motel and away from the last book store. Holding a book at chest level I look at Angie.Angie gives in, ‘Okay, what is the book?’I smile broadly holding the book closer to my chest. ‘It is the book.’Angie smirks, ‘What book?’ she asks, looking both ways as we cross the street.I shake my head in...

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Interstellar Soul-traveling for Imprudent Novices

Soni North

Weekly Contest #337

Thjazin felt like dying. For a flashing nonsensical moment, he regretted the more-than-bold dosage of purpleslants that now broiled his blood from inside out. A bright-edged resonance lulled in his bones, hot and cold.He threw up into a vat he’d reserved for that particular purpose, and felt instantly better.He wiped his face and lied down, easing into it. He chewed on some peppermint leaves to ease the rest of the nausea, and to lift his spirits. This wasn’t his first auroch-hopping — it was supposed to feel horrible at first, and it was al...

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BUCK!

Theodore Bax

Weekly Contest #337

BUCK! Lovingly reimagined from Grandpa Van’s true stories about EARLY 1900's Alberta…a place that in 2026 seems far away and nearly forgotten… Oklahoma, 1950’s The Robinson family had many dogs. But most of us never knew the best one. When we came to know Buck, he existed only in Grandpa Robinson’s memories. So, pull up a chair next to your fireplace. Alberta can get cold in January! And listen carefully, for Grandpa had a soft and gentle voice. I’ll tell you the story of how he gave his best dog away. Since he was a part time...

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Survive

Ben Hammott

Weekly Contest #337

The ship was already dying when Toby realized his father was afraid.Not the sharp fear of alarms and explosions—that had been constant for hours, but something quieter. Something heavy. His father’s hands trembled where they rested on Toby’s shoulders, gripping too tightly, as if afraid that letting go would break the universe in half.“Listen to me,” his father said.The command cut through the chaos more cleanly than the alarms.Toby looked up. Firelight painted his father’s face in violent orange and shadow, turning familiar lines into somet...

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So much more!!!

Yehiel Levinson

Weekly Contest #337

We were sitting one cool, fall evening. The conversation rolled like Tootsie roll. Since we were around 40, with no kids or responsibilities, the atmosphere was casual. My girl seating by my right: I was able to reserve seats to our favorite restaurant. Better upgrade your style. No Flip-flops Dan! I know how much you like them!Me: What's the occasion? She: Don't worry babe, I'm sure you can think of something.We were going through something. If I had to look in the distant future, I didn't see her by my side. Mia started with me only after ...

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Cockroach King Part 1

Charles Edward Cheese

Weekly Contest #337

Cockroaches can live for a week without a head.A cockroach can hold its breath for forty minutes to retain water.A female ootheca can hatch close to fifty nymphs.They can go up to a month without any food. Ahmed knows more than this. These are just the facts that translate well. The ones that make people recoil slightly, step back, scratch their arms as if something is crawling on them. These are just a few of the cockroach facts in Ahmed’s head that made him the undisputed cockroach king in all of Auckland. A title he wears with pride, wear...

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Barcelona for Beginners

Weekly Contest #337

July 10th, 1986 Fergie sits at a café on Las Ramblas with a café con leche in front of her. She is writing her first letter home. Home is a variable feast now. This letter is to her ex-boyfriend Mike in Texas. “I’ve made it to Barcelona. The train trip across France was interesting. I could see the architecture changing each day, from the tall gray narrow buildings in the north to the colorful relaxed architecture of the south. Each night I left the train and stayed at the hotel by the station, having good French food at each stop. Thank God...

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Lost Thyrian Artifacts: The Hallowed Stone

Delaney Stargel

Weekly Contest #337

At the time of the Accords, mass chaos ensued for the Thyrians as they were forcibly removed from their homeland. In the process of exiling them, their ancient artifacts were lost to time—relics that helped them to hone their skills of wielding Erythia were all destroyed or hidden away. Thyrians became divided, their internal battles causing factions and covens to split off on their own, hiding in forests across Mitya. One such relic, the Hallowed Stone, was said to be an amplifier—it could increase the strength of any Erythia cast by the T...

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The Yearning

Weekly Contest #337

My headlights turned onto the single-track road scanning clumps of hedges and scattered rocks lining the verge. Briefly illuminated they plunged back into darkness - the same darkness as inside the van with only two beams searching the narrow tarmac strip ahead. Daylight had already faded on this November afternoon. The “bus”, as we had called the converted camper van, slowly climbed the narrow incline. I had not had much practice driving it. A trip in the summer to a campsite on the West Coast had been my only outing so far. Its dark brown ...

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The Blue Rishi

Richard Gutwein

Weekly Contest #337

My name is Mohandas, and I was marooned on an island at seven years old, and was all alone for the rest of my life until I passed over in my sleep. I never saw another person in physical flesh the entire time." " In later reincarnations, I was to become The Blue Rishi, but this was my apprenticeship in de isolation of nature, and it was a magnificent test of my will, though the price in de beginning was severe, you know, in among the endless days of combating lost hope. I managed to muster a faith quite new to me, that grew and guess what? i...

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The Luck of Woodrow Romine: A Dog to Whom Things Happen

Nick Matsas

Weekly Contest #337

Woodrow Romine was born in the year of his Lady and Queen, 2020. Like all British before him, he learned how to fetch and poop in the backyard by the age of one despite the persistent distraction from squirrels, whose blood he discovered was the same colour as his black coat.His master, Lady Deanna, was an American but, like all the well-to-do on this continent, of fine British stock. She and Woodrow lived in Los Angeles, but her family had been in America since 1753 and, to this day, owns half of Alabama, which is like saying one owns half ...

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My Last Dive With Cheryl

Ken Spragg

Weekly Contest #337

Every Wednesday, during the summer and fall months, brought with it a new mystery dive in Lake Erie. It's now mid July and this is my sixth such dive this year, with the same group. My best friend and favorite dive buddy Cheryl was once again accompanying me with the same group of fourteen regular charter attendees. But I felt uneasy about something. Something seemed different. Perhaps it was the elder gentleman who was new to us as boat captain? Perhaps his new boat and the surroundings seemed strange. Something just didn’t sit right, a...

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Bounty

Mike Weiland

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...

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Captain Bligh's Odyssey

Valery Rubin

Weekly Contest #337

Nostalgia. Sweet, stubborn nostalgia. Who among us, as boys, didn’t dream of a heroic calling? To become an astronaut, a pilot, or a football star?Times change, manners change. Today, most people reach for the portfolios of bankers, financiers, managers, or, in the worst case, bureaucrats and politicians. And yet… admit it. Someone out there dreamed of becoming a pirate.To step boldly onto the pirate’s path, hoist the Jolly Roger, fire the great guns at a royal flagship… Pistols ready? Machetes sharpened?“Surrender your vessel or face the de...

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