Stories tagged “exploration”
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Ginger: Tunnel to Nowhere
The tunnel was dark and damp, carved out of the wet compacted black soil twenty yards underground. About a yard and a half from floor to ceiling. As best I could approximate, it ran in a straight line northeast and continued beyond the range of the lig...
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In the Shadow of Olympus Mons
Even through the heavily tinted portals of the habitation unit, she could almost taste the crimson sky. It was so much worse when they were out there, though. It had taken less than an hour on their first excursion for their shining bright environment ...
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In Which Yetis Eat My Face: The Stone Rockwell Prequel
“Stone Rockwell, you’ve done it again!” thought Stone Rockwell, ace explorer. He had discovered the ancient burial ground for the mythical Yeti, which he had proven to exist mere hours ago. “Damn I’m good.” he mutter...
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Explorer
About this time, you’re wondering why I’m telling you all this. You see, I’m an explorer. Much like those men and women on Earth before it was fully explored and mapped, I travel to places no one else has gone before in hopes of findi...
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Brick Works
The workshop was a large area outside a small Italian town, situated atop a hill. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, and the orange brick roofs were waiting patiently under the warm evening sun. Like skeletal structures, welcoming us to enter them,...
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Land of the Northern Flame
They told me not to go, but I had to make certain that what I saw was not just an illusion. While keeping watch two nights ago on the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, I could swear that I saw plumes of fire rising up in the far distance. I whispered about...
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Fuck the Moon
Fresh off the shuttle, Steve bounded across the Moon in his bulky EVA suit. He whooped loudly and almost crashed into another group of suited people. “Hey, welcome to the Moon!” one man said, “What a trip, huh? Glad you could make it....
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Ficly is Where the Heart Is
Snack-sized discoveries, explorations and challenges of wit, wonder, and emotion, this is more than my study- this is my HOME!
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Mana
July the Twentieth The Year of Our Lord 1533 It is done. After months of tribulations and slow victories, we have finally drawn out the secret of the Incan emperor Atahualpa. Soon he will be executed, and the arduous journey we have taken for Spain and...
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The Third World
They were in utter disarray when we arrived. They were a primitive, fragmented people, bickering between themselves over land or some other resource, sometimes even fighting over differing abstract ideologies. Their technologies were primitive as well....
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Gypsy Road
“Living in the city,” Bo said, “can be a cold and lonely place to be.” He raised his massive woolly head and horns up past the windshield of the Cadillac convertible. The Alberta prairie air rushed into his flared nostrils as he drove west down...
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Cowhide
“So, where to?” Hirc asked as he reclined the passenger seat of the Cadillac. He got comfortable and folded his hands behind his head. His unbuttoned denim shirt flapped in the wind. “You got a plan?” “Medicine Hat is the next stop,” Bo rep...