Stephanie Booth's online ramblings
Creative writing. Fiction and stuff. Oh, and 50-word stories.
The growth on his shoulder was becoming ugly. It was also starting to talk with him, which he found unsettling.
The doctor refused to remove it as it had sufficient sentience.
Three months later the growth had developed prehensile appendages.
A year later, it strangled him after a nasty fight.
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Tom’s marriage had turned into a nightmare. Janet and he fought all the time and the children had got completely out of hand. He became addicted to full-simulation dramas, and fell in love with an actress. He sought her out and discovered the ugly truth behind the profitable sim industry.
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One hundred and fifty remaining passengers are stuck on a ship drifting through the stars far from home, propulsion and guidance hopelessly wrecked by saboteurs still amongst them. There is no salvation for them, just death when life-support systems will fail. They end up deciding to blow up the ship.
This is a 50-word short story. Read more by me on CTTS or by others too on Facebook.
The passengers awoke many centuries later than planned, and struggled to come to terms with a universe which was not ruled or dominated by humans. Heroes of their time, they were now no more than disposable pawns of a slave-race. They led the revolution of humanity against their alien oppressors.
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Judy sat down on the mountain trail to catch her breath. She imagined all the others who had travelled the same path, centuries or even thousands of years before.
The chill of a ghost disturbed her nap, and she awoke somebody else, dressed in furs, in a time long past.
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In Elo’s granddad’s garden was a pile of ancient computer junk. Elo and his best friend Lit spent their summer putting them back together so that they could explore the treasures buried on those hard drives, piecing back together the lives of their long dead owners, journeying into the past.
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Ils venaient de loin et payaient cher pour passer quelques jours en-dehors du temps. Des vacances sans interruption de travail, le rêve!
Mais au fil des visiteurs, la fabrique du temps se distendait, et des secousses chronologiques perturbaient la vie aux alentours.
L’Ile Hors du Temps tuait le temps.
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They found the boy’s body in an underwater cave covered in strange paintings.
People who visited it went mad, painting away until they dropped. The plague spread.
Against all scientific advice, Josh brought in a shaman, who chased the spirits back into the other world.
The infected all dropped dead.
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She left her home, setting out through the world to discover who she was. She met a dying mother, a lover whom she loved more than she loved herself, and a wise man who taught her to look deep inside her soul.
She found her answers: life is a journey.
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Lorsqu’ils allaient en vacances dans leur maison au sud de la France, Julie ne manquait pas de rendre visite à la vieille femme d’à côté, qui lui donnait de si jolies pommes rouges.
Une été, pourtant, les volets restèrent clos. La vieille femme s’était jetée du balcon.
Ceci est une mini-nouvelle en 50 mots. Lisez-en d’autres de moi sur CTTSousur Facebook, par d’autres que moi.