...The day was starting as it would in Mr Volk’s classroom when Kai brought up the discussion of snowflakes. “Why does it snow diamonds here on neptune but not over on the moon where I used to live?” “The pressure is so strong here that all precipitation is diamonds, but back on the moon and mars it snows water.” Colton said. “Why does it snow water on other planets instead of other things?” Kai asked “It’s because of the way the atmosphere is on other planets and moons.” Mr Volk stated, “Let’s go outside and study this, do not forget to exit through the airlock system.” “It feels good to get some fresh artificial air made by machines.” commented Colton “So do either of you have any stories about how snow comes about on other planets, or do I need to say one?” “No, tell us one.” Kai and Colton said in sync and turning to each other in shock at what had happened. “Well I have one, but both of you must listen and not interrupt.” Mr Volk said. “ It happened a long time ago on a planet called Earth which was the only place humans could live before space exploration.” “ I thought that was fake.” said Kai....
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...Two figures sped down the streets, blinding lights and shouts were following close behind in the darkness of the night. The two made a sharp turn into an alleyway, the voices passing them and continuing onward. They bent down, gasping for breath, inhaling as much air as they could as their exhales came out fast and hard. The two turned to one another, sharing a look of relief as the flashing lights died down as well. One figure poked his head before looking back and asking, “Do you think we are ok now?” He then sighed, saying, “Wow, I knew something was going to happen, but I didn’t think it would be this bad Drake.” Drake quieted his breathing before looking up, “I didn't ask for this Shing, how would I know what would happen?” He said with slight agitation in his voice, before sighing, “I hope Aspen is ok back home right now, but we should wait for a few more minutes before we head back.” Shing nodded, silently apologizing before pushing his back to the wall and slowly sliding down. Drake looked down at Shing as he fumbled with his hands, “Are you ok?” He asked after a few seconds of silence. Shing looked up and shrugged, his brown eyes clouded with an emotion that Drake couldn't read. He sat down next to Shing and started to mess with the dirt around them, engraving a picture of a bird into the ground, before brushing it away with his hand. “Should we head back now?”, Shing asked after a few minutes. He pulled himself up and extended his arm out so that Drake could grab it...
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...waking me up all night, asking me for a bedtime story, and I told every, single, time, “Go ask Mom or Dad,” and off with a huff she would go downstairs, go upstairs, then say, “Tauny, they’re not there.” I then every time, I would tell her, “Have you checked their room?” She would then walk off to her room, and lie down on her pastel pink carpet with Dom, her stuffed bunny, and her lilac baby blanket with a aero blue background. What’s strange is, anything that’s her’s she keeps beautiful, but anything that’s mine she completely destroys. Finally, I decided that I would tell her that they’re probably just still off shopping to their heart’s content, and that she should go to sleep. “Ah, at last, peace and quiet,” was my final thought, before I drifted off to sleep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
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...lack of belts made Chris wonder why they were even going to Mike's house for the weekend. The temperature must have dropped because Emily was shivering. When Chris looked down all he could see was a black abyss. The lift stopped, Emily noticed that the building they were headed into had its lights turned on. Emily thought. The gears again and the lift continued its course. The building was dimly lit, this time with 4 incandescent bulbs that also hung by wires, and contained nothing more than a switchboard and a map of the mountain. The map was printed on a wide paper that had yellowed with age, the map showed six cabins, a radio tower, a mineshaft and at the very top was a medical building, crossed out with red sharpie. She shivered, it was 9:57 and cold, too cold. Emily looked around, Chris’s face was flushed, the ride must have shaken him. He just stood there looking out at the window with a blank expression, “ I think i just saw someone in the woods.” He breathed “I think it was Ashley.” “Let's go check it out, what the worst that could happen?” Demanded Emily The mountain seemed to never end, the trees went on for miles in each direction. Emily checked her phone. Two bars. “Maybe you should text mike” Chris chattered. They had followed the path that Mike lit with Tiki torches, but it ended at a wall of trees. “We should just go” Chris’s teeth never stopped clicking, it was like they were trying to jump from his mouth. “Alright, but you're going in the front” Emily said,...
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...Free at least! Free of being surrounded of those dark grey wall! Free of the questions for the insane! That breeze feels so nice and aahh the smell! My master will be coming soon! In the dark of night, in the middle of the storm!! So much I will be able to have! Walking on this earth forever… for eternity… so exciting! But Mina, poor poor Mina, but immortality is worth it, for her to be his side… forever. WHY? WHY IS THIS SO HARROWING! Immortality. Sounds so...exhilarating. But it is? It feels more like purgatory, dull and grey. It’s a life of feeling trapped, in a cell without walls. Master is to blame for all this hardship and gloom. My master… I am sorry… forgive me… please. Eternity is what I was promised, but this no! This is a black hole where light has no sway! Poor souls. Poor, poor innocent souls! All dead-all dead because of me! How could I be so ruthless? I am fiend! I should not exist! But… oh so good… too hard to resist! Master should not walk this earth! Not any terrain where he could harm people so pure and sweet! But he brings flies, which bring me spiders and those lovely spiders bring me birds! Stupid Seward! He got in my way! Those birds would have brought cats! But Seward wouldn't allow me to have a cat! NOT EVEN A KITTEN. How foul of me to think this way! I am free now! Master won’t be dangle people in front me, not ever again! He won’t use people’s souls to get me to do his dirty work! I am free man now! He won’t torment me now! No he shall not...
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...The past couple of days had gone by in a whirl that Ian barely had time to process them. One minute he was going through his daily routine and the next, Mickey was back in his life giving him that thrill he never thought he’d ever feel again. It crazy how much time had passed since they last saw each other and yet, it was like no time had passed at all. The same sparks were there as they had been all those years ago when Ian barged into the Milkovich house with a pipe. Jesus. Had it really been that long? Ian glanced over at Mickey, who was looking up at the night sky. The corners of his lips pulled upwards as he thought about Mickey’s earlier words. Hey, you ever think back in the day, this is where we’d be? Ian had given him a different answer, but still, his mind flashed back to that night on the baseball field after Mickey had just gotten out of juvie. The older boy had dismissed the idea of them looking for shooting stars while spread out on a blanket. While they weren’t looking for shooting stars, they were still lying on the blanket Mickey had found in the car they had stolen. His phone buzzed, interrupting his reminiscing and out of the corner of his eye, he could see Mickey look at him with a brow raised as if asking, “you gonna check that?” Ian rolled his eyes and took his phone out of his pocket, knowing it was probably Trevor again wondering where he was. He had been ignoring his texts and calls, this time would be no different. He would deal with it later. Ian...
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...she had a headache and stiff muscles. When she tried to move, she couldn’t. She opened her eyes and became aware of the mess she was in. Next to her, Hugo, Sylvia, Ethan, and Avery were all unconscious, bound to a pole along with her. She didn’t recognize the room they were in, and the smell was that of a spring morning. She felt movement to her left. She moved away in surprise only to find that Ethan had woken up. Then Sylvia. The Hugo. Then Avery. Like clockwork. “Where the heck are we?” Ethan asked, weariness apparent in his voice. “You’re in WAVE Headquarters, my dear.” Their heads shot up at the new voice. There, stood a tall figure. She had long brown hair put up in a high ponytail. Aurora’s assessment of the older woman was cut short when Avery screamed, “Mom?” A mixture of fury and surprise roared through her. “Yes, dear. You’ve grown since the last time I saw you! You’ve grown up into a wonderful adult.” “You died. I went to the funeral; I saw your body.” Avery screamed, her fury winning out. “That was just so I could focus on my career, dear. I couldn’t possibly be a mother and run WAVE.” “You left Me and Dad alone so you could run, this...this, whatever this is? Your death destroyed him. He stopped working and started drinking, because of you. He’s dead because of you.” she could barely say, her eyes starting to water. “Do you know what that does to a ten-year-old? First having to endure her mother dying in a horrible lab explosion, then seeing your dad slowly...
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...Another day, Another movie I think to myself as I walk up to the movie theater. I get there just in time. The words “October 14th, 2016, Villisca, Iowa” Flashed across the screen. . As they pulled up to the house she looked like she felt very uneasy. She walked up to the door only to find the man. The man she had left my child with three days prior. “Hello, Rellik. I am Bens mother and I am here for the end of camp dinner” Bens Mother said. Pause. Whoa whoa whoa wait. Why in the world would you leave your child at that freaking creepy house? It looks EXACTLY like a killer's house. Resume. “Welcome,” Rellik said as he invited them in. Pause. RELLIK? Everyone knows that's killer spelled backward. Who leaves their child with some creepy man named Rellik. He’s OBVIOUSLY a killer. This movie is so predictable. Resume. As they walk into the house, they smell something absolutely delightful. “French children, I mean onion soup?” Rellik said. Ladling they soup into the bowls. “Oh I guess I could have a little bit” but before she could finish she was interrupted by a knock on the door. “Hello, Come in. I’ve been Expecting you.” Rellik said as he opened the door. Two more sets of parents walk in. Both with the same uneasy look as the first. “Where are our children?” Marcie's Mother says noticing the children were nowhere to be found. Rellik began to speak “Your children are gone. I have lost them they are nowhere to be found. “What kind of twisted trick is this?” Clarissa’s mother says...
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...As she grew up, no one would dare look at her. She would walk across the school hallways, speeding to get to her class, no one by her side while the others murmured words about her in each other's ears. In class was the only time she could feel normal, even though she wasn't. Her family would only talk to her. They were all afraid, not wanting to get involved with her. They made her feel worse than the gossipers at school, who only spread rumours about her. Her family would occasionally greet her, feed her then wouldn't have any communication with her until she needed to drive to school. It wasn't until she was sixteen when someone finally decided to talk to her. It was a cold morning during July and the first class of the day: maths. Every other student hated maths except for Kendall. Kendall liked math— in fact it was her favourite subject! The class was unusually quiet due to the fact that Chloe East, a loud troublemaker had moved class since the math teacher had enough of her. She was scribbling down the notes on the board when a student walked in. "Nia Frazier will be in the place of Chloe East, as Chloe has been moved to a different class," A another teacher said, "Sorry for interrupting your class, Mr. Matthews." "No, thank you for coming principal," Mr. Matthews shared a smile with Madison, "Welcome to our math class Nia. Have a seat next to Kendall, I'm sure you know who she is." Kendall's face turned tomato red and her gaze turned to the floor. Of course, everyone...
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...On the monitor, a woman - naked and bloody, with arms and legs spread-eagled - was bound to a tree. The man watched in anticipation as a hooded figure emerged from off-camera to slash at her torso with a hunting knife. Her shrieks of pain rattled through the speakers, and pierced his eardrums, but that was nothing compared to those when the figure shoved the hunting knife in her ravaged cunt, and disappeared from sight. One final insult. The viewers were left to watch her head loll back, eyes pop open, and torso first convulse, then go limp. Rivers of crimson ran down her skin and pooled in the pile of dead leaves at her feet. As the grainy film faded to black, the scream died with her and the man seated in the chair in front of the screened convulsed with the throes of an orgasm. The urge was building, he could feel it in every fibre of his being and had begun to consume his thoughts. Soon the only thing he'd be able to think would would be the desire to hurt and maim. To force a woman to beg and plead for her life, to cause her to scream in terror, and bare her teeth in agony as the tears flowed down her cheeks. He'd watch her eyes, awaiting the dawning realisation within them that it wasn't a dream, that he wasn't a man capable of compassion or mercy, and there would be no last-minute stay of execution. That aroused him, more than anything, that look. The one that flashed across their faces when the last shred of hope was torn away, and they accepted, finally, that they were...
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... Ten years ago… “Hey Jack, Samuel said Du ya think the world is gonna end?” “Nah I don't think so.” Jack replied in a whisper during astronomy class. “Oh come on!” Said Sam. “It's year 5000000!” “Let me calculate it.”replied Jack. After a brief 5 minutes, Jack calculated an extremely hard math equation. I think it would end in 20 years… The Present Jack and Samuel both 27 years old , genius space engineers, NASA approved astronauts, was right ten years ago. The earth started to to get real hot, droughts in several areas of the world , and flooding in Japan got harsh. XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX Hey! Sam John! Prof. Lucas called, a professor working in NASA, you have seen the disasters. We are starting to only eat potatoes because that's the only thing we have left. I need to ask you a big favor. In fact, a dangerous favor. I need you to go on the rocket 4000 to find us an exoplanet. It can go up to 168,282 miles per second. Or, the speed of light. I have found an exoplanet not too far away. It will take two years. Will you do it? Samuel and Jack looked at each other. Samuel nodded to Jack. Jack shook his head and said I will discuss it with my friend Sam. Jack and Sam walked to their private office partially devastated and exited. They looked at each other for a long time. Sam broke the silence. I'll do it. Jack looked at him in shock. Are you sure? Yea, said Sam it is saving the whole world am i not? “Ok “replied Jack. then I’m going...
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...Nothing but muffled screams left her mouth. As he began to put the knife to her throat, she pushed away screaming causing the knife to slash her pretty-pink cheeks. She had nowhere to go. She was completely lost. Trying her best, she followed the signs she remembered seeing on her ride with her father to the field. After about an hour, she had finally reached the police station back in the city. As soon as she arrived, an ambulance was called due to the deep cut on her not so rosy cheek. Three days and two nights in the hospital receiving nearly twenty stitches. Ten years later, Katy is left with a pinkish scar and nothing but a silk photo album to remember how things were before that horrible night. The police still don’t believe her story and still have no record of her father. So, Katy remains the only one who knows the truth about that night, and her father. And is left with a pink scar and a silk photo album to remember it. ...
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...Lisa was okay. A few hours later, the doctors came out to update Molly and Matt. The doctor said she doesn't remember anything, but she is able to talk, hear, move, and they were now able to come into the room. Molly and Matt timidly came into the room. Lisa waved at them but didn’t realize who they were. A few minutes later, Lisa noticed the chain around Matt's neck. "I had a chain necklace like that, "explained Lisa. "I know it's yours," said Matt. Then all of a sudden Lisa remembered Matt and Molly and started talking normally. Lisa was back to normal. In conclusion, Matts day as a firefighter wasn’t the best, but Matt was very proud that he saved so many lives that day. Including his mom. From that day on Matt always had a story to tell. Matt and Molly were very happy about their mom being healthy and can't wait to spend time with her. ...
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...interjects and Carisi winks only for Barba to see. "Had to clarify a few things with Detective Carisi." " Yeah, my Fordham knowledge came in handy," Carisi beams while Barba shakes his head. "Sort of," Barba hands Noah to Benson, who was reaching for her like Noah's life depended on it. "I see," she smirks before taking Noah and nuzzles him, "How I missed you very much." "UN DO TREES!" Noah shouts. "Oh, sweetie!" Benson smiles proudly at her son. "Did Uncle Rafael teach you Spanish? Hopefully you were good for him." Noah repeats it again, "UN! DO! TREES!" Barba felt rather proud he could teach Noah something and he crosses his arms, "Piece of cake." Carisi tilts his head, raising his eyebrows in the way he does when someone makes up a story. Barba quickly quickly side eyes him and shakes his head. "That's good to hear, " Benson smiles, bouncing a babbling Noah. "Might keep you in mind next time." "Next time?!" He thinks to himself, but all he can do is nod, "Sure." In a way, he could always use that excuse to call Carisi again. -The End-...
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...It was night. The moon shined through a thousand stars. The sound of galloping horses rang through the land, pounded into the black dirt of Earth. He breathed heavily towards the group, his head hung, his body broken and aching. Smoke billowed upward from the giant fire, poisoning the air. Footsteps echoed in the background, muffled, silenced. Dusty, sandy, dirt-ridden circle of a red blazing fire. His eyes fluttered open, laying vision on eight shadowy figures dressed in red and black tar. They stood before him, eyes dark and empty from all emotion other than rage. (bloodlust.) One, a woman with (brown) eyes stepped forward, holding a decorated spear with a golden point his way. “Wait…” he mumbled through bloody teeth. “Wait….” The woman lunged the sharpened weapon at him. She stuck him in the abdomen, deeply twisting his skin around the cut edges of the blade. He cried out, a surge of (sharp pain) striking through him. Cringing with the last (round) of anguish, his head collapsed against the board that propped him forward. “Why….” He whimpered through choked sobs. “Why are you doing this?” The woman in red started at him, her (brown) eyes burning through his own. “Betrayal.” She spat viciously. “Your betrayal.” “But how? How have I betrayed my kind?” She twisted the spear one more time, causing him to cry out. She moved away, grabbing the top of a tattered (buffalo hide) facing him. Pulling off the cover, his true betrayal was revealed. His eyes widened, looking...
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