Halloween Two Sentence Horror Competition
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From the canopy of his melting Eagle, Jack saw a tortured landscape. Scorched fangs of rock jutted up into the vacuum, rivers of lava poured from mountains cauled in a blue Cherenkov glow, the blinding streamer of the quasar curled above it all, and a naked man walked towards him, smiling.
We have no pips to shields!
Well that's great!
Well that's great!
I am here, crouching in the darkness, with the ship gone, SRV gone, consumables gone and down to my last rounds of ammo.
Suit power has dropped to 20% and green light begins to flow around the corner of the spire's branch.
Suit power has dropped to 20% and green light begins to flow around the corner of the spire's branch.
Gravity and bad timing assisted in missing my jump across the Thargoid spire. I'm OK, it is only 3KM drop and my jetpack should sto....
In the inky depths of space, a lone pilot drifted through the wreckage of a celestial graveyard, the remnants of countless ships whispering tales of interstellar tragedies. A haunting distress signal echoed through the void, leading the pilot to a derelict vessel where the only signs of life were the flickering screens replaying the final moments of a doomed crew's descent into madness, but where were the bodies?
For years I roamed the inky black, haunted by naught but the hull‘s creaks and sad groan. Today I learned a haunting truth; I’m nothing but a hologram, alone.
I have some terrible news for you…..
We are in the top two percent of all the liners out there!
We are in the top two percent of all the liners out there!
What are you talking about?
Of course I closed the airlock!
Of course I closed the airlock!
They mostly come at night.
Mostly.
Mostly.
We’re coming in pretty fast, what’s the gravity on this planet?
25g!
25g!
Panther Clipper release date is. Redacted.
The final sound, when it came, was quiet: a small ting that fractured the comfortable hum of the suit. I watched as the crack crept inescapably across my visor—a spider’s web splintering the airless moonscape beyond.
Cutting the panel and activating the airlock the weary commander entered the old, empty settlement. They cast their light about into the shadows of the old, empty warehouse and saw, there was nothing in it...
The last thing Emmett expected to see this far from The Bubble, were the long dead remains of another human.
That is, except for the words "They Look Like Us" he'd scratched into the lunar dust with with his dying breath.
That is, except for the words "They Look Like Us" he'd scratched into the lunar dust with with his dying breath.