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She eased herself down onto the formed plastic, her bare skin breaking out in gooseflesh. Teeth grit against the aching cold, she unfurled the body suit and found the feet. Ignoring the hiss of her partner’s own discomfit, she slid her toes inside the slippers and pulled the supple material up, slipping her arms in with practised efficiency. She stood as the suit sutured closed at the nape of her neck, attaching automatically with the sub-dermal neodymium implants. She glanced at her partner, himself standing now too.
By John Riley3 years ago in Fiction
Thirsty
Thirsty.docx 1 / 2 Thirsty By Tawny Moody The Colorado River Basin from Wyoming to Mexico had truly become THE VALLEY in THE SHADOW OF DEATH. Jason, Jamie and Buddy grew up there and adapted in order to survive it. They were only toddlers when the economy crashed in the west. The trio never knew the neon lights and tourist filled extravagant nights of the Bellagio Fountain times. As teens Las Vegas Blvd is where they went to lose their virginity, drink their first beer and throw roof top bon fire bashes. The city was occupied by those who were too poor to pay their way through Idaho and buy their way into Canada. Congress abandoned the Basin and everything west of it. When their parents could not pay the Exodus Tax their United States citizenship was revoked. Buddy and Jamie’s Moms got jobs in the prison as intake administrators. They greeted new arrivals, had the privilege of collecting and recording their personal property and filling it away. Jason’s dad was the head of the strongest prison gang. He compensated Buddy’s mom well for raising Jason. Buddy’s mom was his number one mule. She could smuggle anything. She rarely had to. She just funneled the incoming personal property into Jason’s dads’ cell. The privately owned prison was the wests only source of revenue. It housed the Easts worst offenders and all the wests’ offenders. They received more money for each prisoner per year than they paid their top 2 employees combined. Nobody fought for higher wages out of fear they’d be let go and lose their only water source. The prison was the only way to access water legally. The trio, Now in their early 30’s were all wanted for GTA. Grand Theft AQUA. They loved outlaw life. They knew that desert valley better than any bounty hunter or hired henchman.
By Tawny Moody3 years ago in Fiction
The Price of War
“If you are hearing this, it means you have triggered the event. I am sorry, my brother, that it has come to this. Honestly, even though I know it is for the best, I still hope you never hear this message. This plan was my idea, one born from desperation. I found a quote from a woman from Earth that I hope you understand, now. 'The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.' You‘ve destroyed too much for me not to try this, but you’re still my brother... and I love you. Goodbye. End message.”
By Eloise Robertson 3 years ago in Fiction
The Investigation
October 31st, 2021 8 PM - The team has assembled, they are hyped up and ready to roll. Our tech specialist this evening is Kamila Holm, she'll be holed up in the van to monitor the equipment from a safe place while we do what we do. If we don't get much for activity, I may attempt to scare her to liven things up a bit. The youngest member of this ragtag investigation team Karl Omis and his older brother Theo Omis are set to make history with me, Ikara Thumbling as we set out to prove and document the impossible.
By Tiggerish Eeyore (Aaron Wood)3 years ago in Fiction
In the Red
I always thought of space as dark. The truth is, when you get sucked into the void by the will of God, there’s a lot of light. It’s just so far away. Thousands upon millions of little white dots, and colourful galaxies in the distance. They’re all blues and greens and purples, and they’re all so, so far away. I float untethered through the middle. Although I suppose it could be the edges, for all I know. I can’t tell and it burns a hole in my brain. I try not to think about it.
By Blake Smith3 years ago in Fiction
The Rise of Deceit
When I had been given instructions to confuse and deceive, none of us had expected it to go this far, to lead to this much destruction and demise. Some whispers to the media, to rogue cops, and to large men with weak minds were simply meant to cause anger and strife among the humans.
By Savanna Graves3 years ago in Fiction
In the throes of tragedy, Amelia finds a sliver of faith..
Amelia gave a sigh of relief when she found an abandoned container of water and consumed it with great speed. She felt her stomach expand as she drank, as she hadn't eaten anything for hours. After what seemed like the worst day of her life, the last thing she wanted to think about was eating, but she knew she needed to nourish herself if she was going to try to find her family. A bomb had hit her side of town in the United Kingdom, and Amelia had lost everything she had ever known, or so it seemed. Her families beautiful home had collapsed, as one of the bombs hit another building right beside her house and completely destroyed her sense of security. In the midst of running for her life, her family had gotten lost somewhere in the ethers. Hours before this event took place, the news had warned everyone of the upcoming travesty and everyone who could skipped town. There were some who stayed behind, and this included Amelia's family. Thinking they could survive this travesty, they stocked up once they got the news earlier in the week on water, flashlights, food, batteries, and other essentials. But no one anticipated their house collapsing. The apocalypse not only took their home, but sooner or later, she realized it took one of her family members lives. In the midst of realizing their house was going to collapse, Amelia, her mother Carol, her father Jason, her little brother Nathan, and her little sister Brianna managed to climb out of a window in their basement. They had been hiding out in the basement, checking for updates from the news every few hours. And then finally, the tragedy began. Soldiers began breaking into people's houses and taking their children, beating them, and killing some of them. There was a literal war going on outside Amelia's door and she and her younger siblings were absolutely terrified. Confused and bewildered, she just hid in a little corner of her basement with her family as she watched from the basement window. All she could see was the soldiers legs pacing back and forth as they banged on her front door waiting for a response. She listened as they cursed and yelled, waiting and hoping they would just go away. But they banged on to no avail, until eventually accepting no one would answer. As time goes by, they hear complete destruction take place outside the basement walls. A few buildings surrounding them had been blown to pieces as this war continued on, including a few houses a distance from Amelia's. About an hour goes by and they hear a loud bang. This is right before her house collapsed in shambles. Realizing they had sent a missile towards the building right next door, Amelia's dad Jason yells at his wife and kids to climb out of the window and run. Unfortunately, they were a second too late and the house collapsed on his wife Carol and his daughter Brianna. Amelia, her dad, and her little brother manages to get away from the house, but a soldier comes along and snatches her brother Nathan. The soldiers try to catch Jason and Amelia, but can't match their stride. Amelia runs and runs until her lungs feel like they're going to burst, for fear of being kidnapped by these very dangerous, evil men. Eventually Amelia eventually looks back after running for what seemed like hours, only to realize her father was gone too. She was far from her house now, and hiding inside an abandoned car that been slightly destroyed by the houses that had collapsed. For fear that she'd be heard, Amelia stifled her cries in her arm when she realized her mother and her little sister were gone and had possibly died. Afraid and alone, she hid for hours in fear that she'd be snatched by a soldier. She never slept a wink, obsessively thinking of her father and her little brother and where they might be. She never came out until dawn broke the next day. There was barely any room to walk on the streets as she walked by thousands of corpses, broken glass, building doors, doors that flew off the hinges of cars, and large pieces of cement that belonged to buildings. Amelia had to crawl her way through some spaces due to all the disaster she was surrounded by. Only seeing a few others in the street, she ran to them desperately looking for her family. Unfortunately she had no pictures of them, aside from the heart-shaped locket her mother had given her with their family photo inside. Somewhere along the lines, she had lost her locket while running for her life, so she had no way of identifying who they were. So she told them their names instead. They told her they had no clue who her family was and she bowed her head in utter sadness. Not having eaten for hours, she heard her stomach rumble and began to cry, knowing her home had been crushed and her food had rotted by now. Amelia trotted along for another hour or so, searching and searching for what she remembered as her home. Suddenly, she sees the pole that belonged to her street name on lying on the ground. She saw her street name lying there and headed towards it, knowing she was close to home. Amelia walks towards the street pole and soon sees the teddy bear Brianna used to sleep with. She begins to walk faster as she begins to recollect what was once her safe haven. She sees her house, or what was left of it. Soon, she came to what used to be the front door, which was now off the hinges and lying on the ground. She steps forward, her heart beating fast and loudly in her chest. She swallowed as she walks through what used to be the kitchen space and finds some morsels of food that was left in her cabinet. She quickly picks it up and continues on. There was very very little room to move around, so she had to crawl through some spaces. She then sees the little heart-shaped locket that dropped off her neck as she ran away from the house last night. She dropped to her knees, relieved to have found this little piece of what seemed like hope to her. Opening the locket, she stares at her families smiling faces, crying silent tears. Suddenly, she hears her name in the distance and what sounds like her father and her little brothers voice. She turns and looks up, seeing her dad with her little brother in his arms. He looks to have been beaten up and injured. Amelia runs to them crying tears of joy! She had thought she'd lost them forever, but her father fought tooth and nail to get away and find his little girl.
By Monique Williams3 years ago in Fiction
Hamish the Protector
Standing before the great statue of Hamish the Protector, the Saviour of the Wastelands, Trevor was dumbstruck with awe, his mind as thick as molasses. — I can’t believe we found him Honey, he said to his wife whose name, coincidentally enough, was Honey. — All hail our great idol, said Honey. — All hail the Great Protector, said Trevor. Flies flew in and out of their mouths with free abandon as the pair stood gaping at the colossus.
By Ben Debney3 years ago in Fiction