Welcome to the VOTE for the best drabble of the week.. This weeks topic was GOING NOVA..
EVERYONE is welcome to vote following these simple rules..
1. 3 votes each ONLY
2. No Voting for your own drabble
3. You don't need to enter the competition to vote.. all voters are welcome.
Right I need to hang up my sparkly onesie and voting will end in 3 days!! Get voting...
Drabble Number : 1
Author : Psykokow
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=252809&postcount=2421
Title: Lets Go Nova
Drabble :
The couples swirled around the floor as gracefull as asteroids spinning into black holes.
The Imperial Ballroom dance off was an annual event of some magnitude with celebrities from all over the systems competing to take the trophy and title of ‘Masters of the Ballroom’
The competition was fierce and favourite couple Hans Shandy and Sue Yahassof stormed into an almost unsailable lead. Noone could match their amazing Cha Cha all night.
The last couple took the floor, Frank and Cathy. The music started with a nice Latin beat and Frank whispered in her ear.
“Time to go Bossa Nova”
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Drabble Number : 2
Author : Yaffle
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=252814&postcount=2423
Title: Not Racing
Drabble :
“Hurry, hurry, ve must hurry.”
“I’m trying, I’m trying” he looked at the mess of wiring and damaged fuel lines. Any time now the Blue Racing’s pit team would be over to taunt him again. Seven races, two starts, no finishes. The team was a laughing stock. Here he was again, covered in oil trying to coax an ungrateful machine back to life.
To make matters worse Trenter was headed their way, full of himself and his last five victories. Leaning on the side panels he asked “So, how are you guys looking?”
“Looks like ve are going no va”
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Drabble Number : 3
Author : The Lone Gunman
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=252825&postcount=2425
Title: 15minutes of Fame
Drabble : "Dad! hurry, the countdown has begun"
Dad got to the ship quickly
Their star was going Supernova "here dad cant believe you forgot it!"
"Goodbye dad" they hugged, minutes later the ship was out the atmosphere and at a safe viewing distance
Dad stood alone, the last man on Dying Earth
solar flares began breaking down the atmosphere
Dad began pressed buttons on the device he had forgotten, then held it high as the end came
"Flash" then he sent it out
"Checking in with FB, selfie pic last man on earth"
Twitter #Supernovadad
he was gonna be dead famous!
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Drabble Number : 4
Author : Frank
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=252842&postcount=2428
Title: (It) Does not go
Drabble : Jake was worried. He could see the dark brooding star outside his cockpit view. There was something threatening about how it looked. But maybe it was his imagination. He knew there were only a few hours left.
His Cobra was rather crowded. He gingerly stepped over legs and ignored the screaming infants as he made his way to engineering.
He wasn't concerned about how mobbed engineering was. His main worry was his Spanish engineer who had the Jump Drive in pieces, frantically checking injectors and shunts.
"How's it going Juan?"
A panicked sweat-ridden face whipped around to reply "No va!"
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Drabble Number : 5
Author : Musashi
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=252871&postcount=2429
Title: Out With a Bang
Drabble :
The searing light brings me round. There is a hellish clattering as I heave myself upright. Through pain-blurred eyes, I can just make out two empty Janx bottles on the bridge's floor.
For a few blissful moments my pounding head denies the memories - then it all crashes in. The attack that killed Gemma, the shattered fuel scoops, that desperate jump on now empty tanks . . . to this cataclysm's embrace.
My shaking hand closes around an unopened bottle. It gleams golden in the nova's light like the Elixir of Life. I have time enough for one last drink.
Time enough to forget.
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Drabble Number : 6
Author : W4rSkull
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=252933&postcount=2432
Title: The Bar For A Brawl
Drabble :
Nova, a dreaded bar on Asteroid 234. A hole for pirates, smugglers and other low life criminals.
A place to seek out trouble.
Jim knew that this was the location to visit right now. He needed to crush some skulls.
Arriving at Nova he could see there was a hell of a brawl.
A man came flying out of the window. Jim delivered a blow. The man became toothless.
While kicking in the door, guns started going of, and some lazer weapons.
He ducked, grabbed a chair and smashed it into the barkeepers head.
"Adrenaline", good being back at Nova.
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Drabble Number : 7
Author : Daddy Hoggy
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=252954&postcount=2433
Title: Rudimentary Spanish
Drabble :
He made the exchange in the bar known as Trece Afortunados. Sergio seemed pleased, puffing on one of the hand rolled cigars immediately. It would be some time before he realised only the top two layers were genuine old Earth Cuban’s.
He heard shouting and suddenly found his route cut off. He headed deeper into the Latin quarter, coming out on an abandoned dock, jumping into an old Adder with her designation Nova hand painted on her side.
The fusion injector refused to initiate and, as Sergio’s men pulled him from the ship, he remembered: No va meant Doesn’t go.
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Drabble Number : 8
Author : Iain M Norman
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=253295&postcount=2441
Title: Tipping Point
Drabble :
The sombre federal investigator regarded the shattered remnants of the bar, and turned to his young assistant, “What happened?”
“A nutter sir.”
“One man did all this!?” he shook his head, scanned the wreckage of broken furniture, the dead bodies, blood and eviscerated remains.
“Yes sir, something pushed him over the edge I guess.”
“You don’t say. Where’s the whack-job in question?”
His assistant gestured around, “A grenade sir, he could be anywhere, and everywhere.”
“Any idea what made him go nova?”
"A mystery sir, didn’t make sense to me. Witnesses say he was ranting something about, ‘No guild support’"
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Drabble Number : 9
Author : Philip Coutts
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=253303&postcount=2445
Title: The Cost of Cheap Repairs
Drabble : The Orca class liner shuddered through space approaching the star. This contract would finally finance the repair the ageing hulk.
He checked the sensor array, the star would be going nova at any minute, cautiously he feathered the thrusters, pushing closer. You never know one of the rich travellers might give him a bonus.
He deployed the shields, it would catastrophic to blind any of his cash cows. Cold, harsh, panic gripped him….
The cockpit’s shielding had jammed, curse those “economical” repairs. Frantically he jabbed the manual override.
The final vision he witnessed was a blinding, searing explosion of pain.
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Drabble Number : 10
Author : Darren Grey
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=253304&postcount=2446
Title: Thoughts of Sol
Drabble : She wept tears of plasma, gushing radiation from every pore. She could feel her own weight crushing down. She could not stand much longer.
She had lived long, providing radiance to her family of planets. Yet it seemed not long enough.
Her strength failed, her surface collapsed, and the shocking force of gravity compressed until she exploded with a cataclysmic flash of light.
Eons passed...
The dead star's dust coalesced.
Thoughts returned, visions of a new family, of heavier elements interacting in novel, incredible ways.
As gravity forged a new core she whispered through the cosmos, "Let there be light."
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Drabble Number : 11
Author : Ian Phillips
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=253307&postcount=2447
Title: How To Name Planets
Drabble :
Naming new planets is a challenge for an explorer.
Lots of old timers make a game out of it. Make a funny name that has a connection to your background, for that personal touch. They collect information about their ancestors and then use it to make up names for planets.
One guy wanted to get one up over the Scots and named a whole planet ‘Nova Cymru’, because it’s bigger than an island!
And this little gem harks back to a village in the Terrran country of Austria. The planet is called ‘Going Nova’. It means ‘New Going’. Funny, right?
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Drabble Number : 12
Author : Bikky
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=253324&postcount=2453
Title: Old In Vogue
Drabble :
'I don’t know why you bother with this crap.’ Sally flounced into a workshed chair.
‘It’s history, it’s ancient, it’s the beginnings of that lovely customised yacht of your dads.’ Replies Fred.
‘It’s a wreck, how old is it? A thou?’ She asks.
‘One Thousand Three hundred and Twenty Eight years old.’ Fred says.
‘It’ll never look right, it’ll never run, there’s no manual for something that old.’ Sally says.
‘Of course it will. I’ll get this thing going.’ Fred states wielding a spanner.
‘What is it anyway?’ Asks Sally.
‘It was known as a Vauxhall Nova.’ Replies Fred Proudly.
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Drabble Number : 13
Author : Phoenix Dfire
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=253337&postcount=2454
Title: Boom Today, no tomorrow
Drabble : “The A-Star’s going critical.” called Davie into the intercom.
“So’s our hyperdrive!” replied Mac from the engine room.
Mooka was flying the Sanctimonious, while Davie monitored and Mac tried to fix the engines, which should have been overhauled a month ago. The ship felt sluggish with the extra weight of refugees crammed into the cargo hold.
“There is goes!” Davie panicked, as the star exploded.
The shockwave hit, throwing the Asp around then subsided.
“We’re alive?” asked Mac, “How come?”
“Oh, I put the ship in the blast shadow of the B-Star.” replied Mooka smugly. “We weren’t really in danger.”
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Drabble Number : 14
Author : Darkoba
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=253338&postcount=2455
Title: "Hanging Five" Nova Style
Drabble :
"You're here already?"
"Evidently."
"But it takes seven jumps and three ship's days from Barnard's.You left early?"
"No, today, ship's time. Two jumps via Eta-Carinae." I grinned, still buzzing.
"But there's no population or refueling there; the star exploded last year..."
"I know. We skipped in. The expanding shock-wave was approaching at almost 800 kilometres-per-second. We turned stern-to and accelerated. As it caught us we matched velocity, powered down and RODE the wave. Exhilarating!!"
"Crazy! What about fuel?"
"Oh, we scooped some wave. After an exciting four-hour ride we dived back behind the wave and jumped out to here."
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Just a question ... how are there 16 votes in total for 5 voters? ... 3x5=15 or am I wrong ??? 
