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• Last Breath on Earth [WWIII Challenge]

  by OrangeOreos 8 days ago

  World War Three.

  They said, “This is it!” fifty years ago.

  And then they said it again thirty years ago.

  Then they stopped…

• Collateral?

  by Maleghast 18 days ago

  The bombs are falling again, and so I dare not go outside. I ventured out a little while ago and all I could see along the ro…

• Achieving Communication

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk 2 months ago

  Our silence was broken by a crackle out of the speakers. We all ran to the control room, tripping over each other.

  “Space St…

• Return of the Machines

  by Adam Short 5 months ago

  Runs With Scissors dropped the furnace, beans and all, and jumped down from the Stallion’s wheel. The black objects slowly re…

• World War lll (Six Word Memoir Challenge)

  by Tad Winslow 6 months ago

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  The bombs detonated.
  __________

  Cockroac…

• Manufacturing a Message

  by J. Dack 6 months ago

  There is a lot of chatter on the infowave tonight, as I sit on my Italian sofa watching my Nipponese television and sipping J…

• A Single Shot

  by DreamGhost about 1 year ago

  I ran. I could hear the planes and the bombs and the tanks. And I ran. All I could think about was to get away. What was I th…

• Victims of Innocence

  by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars about 1 year ago

• Lost in the Rough

  by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago

  “So what would they want with a Primary Power Core?” Strake asked

  “Strip naked and dance around it in lewd displays of carna…

• Power to the Wrong People

  by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago

  I blinked. “A golf ball? Forget bombs. If the Marauders could mass-produce a power core in that size, they’d be able to pow…