Weekly Challenge #657 – PICK TWO Bubbling Saffron Lime Axial Repetition Can Spaceship

Summary: Welcome to the 100 Word Stories podcast at <a href="http://oneadayuntilthedayidie.com">oneadayuntilthedayidie.com</a>. This is the Weekly Challenge, where I post a topic and then challenge you to come up with a 100 word story based on that topic. We’ve got stories by: * <a href="https://harleyquinadventure.com/">Eva</a> * <a>Richard</a> * <a href="http://lizziegudkov.blogspot.com/">Lizzie</a> * <a>Tom</a> * <a href="http://www.piswyck.net">Jon</a> * <a href="http://serenhaven.wordpress.com">Serendipity</a> * <a href="http://www.norvaljoe.com/">Norval Joe</a> * <a>Planet Z</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/isfullofcrap/44213697010/in/dateposted/" title="Sleepy Tinny"></a> EVA The Story of Is There was a beauty that radiated about her, penetrating the most solid of walls, the most bitter of men. I watched through impenetrable glass as the breeze lifted her hair, skin luminescent. I press a hand to my own. Cold. Lifeless. Gray. The way of our worlds. Light and dark. Mine, devoid of life, of beauty. Of purpose. I sigh, gazing, as she plucks a flower and tucks it behind her ear. This is the the divide, the unalterable conclusion. What is will be, what was will be no more. I am is. She is was, and someday will be…me. RICHARD Life? ‘Is this what my life has come to?’ I wondered, emptying the can of soup into the pan, and waiting for it to come to a bubbling heat. I’d once had dreams and ambitions, goals to achieve and challenges to meet, but somewhere along the way, the daily grind took over. Travelling the world, pushing my limits and living the dream somehow became less of a priority than paying the bills, putting out the bins and trying not to run out of milk. They never warn you about this when you’re a kid. And the soup’s not that good either. LIZZIE The Crow and the Spaceship The crow muttered a few words. No one could understand him. He looked up and everyone mimicked him. They couldn’t see anything. The crow flapped his wings. His nervousness was increasing. Then, they saw it. It was blinding. It tinted the whole sky with an overwhelming tone of orange. “What is that?” “That, you idiots, is your end.” They did understand the crow this time, but they stood there mesmerized, watching the spaceship fly over them, again and again. It didn’t feel like the end. The talking crow took off and hid. They… they were never seen again. TOM Between a Rock and Hard Place Bennie pulled back hard on the inertia damper. The Red Turtle dropped into the gravity well between Seti Alpha 5 and Drake’s debris field. Navigator Strobeck point out that if they didn’t pull a sufficient Z maneuver they’d likely end up fried by the dwarf binary suns of the Dawson cluster. Captain Winslow gave the order to engage the Repetition Drive. The spaceship commenced a near infinite series of braking actions. When the Turtle had finally come to a rest, they were orbiting between the suns. “Captain,” said Bennie noting the read out on the chronometer, “We overshot two millenniums.” JON But I Had That for Lunch! By Jon DeCles The axial rotation of the spaceship meant that they had gravity of a sort, but they suffered from Repetition Disorder, which had been discovered first back on Earth by examining psychotics who had got that way from watching re-runs of “I Love Lucy.” The spaceship simulated day and night easily enough, but the seasons were harder, as seasons are pretty specific to the distance you live from the equator. The mission was countering the disorder with culinary adventures to keep the awareness fresh.

Weekly Challenge #657 – PICK TWO Bubbling Saffron Lime Axial Repetition Can Spaceship

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