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On a night forlorn like a widow’s soul burdened by silent grief and haunted by bone-crushing anguish, a dream laid wasted, crumpled in a burgundy velvet blanket on ground inhospitable as concrete. Retribution, redemption, and reconciliation, desires raging away like wildfire, uncontained and unstoppable, usurped the throne in her spirit where pride and peace…
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I watched half her face melt like ice cream on a hot summer day. She was probably in shock, because all she did was cry – silently, with a sob, here and there. I’m sure it must have hurt, especially when half her face became bare bones exposed to the sharp, relentless wind. She might…
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The one thing pilots always did when traveling through the danger zone was narrate the environmental changes to all passengers. It typically prevented panic rather than not knowing what was happening at all – even if everything was going smoothly. But, today, there was nothing more than a little hum from the speakers. Everyone ceased…
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Senna felt her grandmother’s small, skinny hands slip away from hers as the starship ascended. Her feet were locked to the floor, body frozen in place as she watched her grandmother’s figure become a silhouette through the low clouds, then a speck, and then nothing. Everything that happened, happened all too fast. While everyone on…
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Unlike most of the contemporary researchers, scientists, engineers, and the like in her working days, Kendra Aozra fully believed that this day would arrive. When, she would correct them, not if. The signs were all there – every observation of the sky above, every report received from every corner of the Earth. Dr. Simian Holo…
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