Stories tagged “natural disaster”
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Tornado Warning
Tornadoes had gone through Indiana numerous times, but never this close to home. As we sat in the basement watching the news everyone resorted to their own source of self-reassurance. Michael played on his I-Touch, Jessica texted, and Ronnie changed th...
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Icarus: Mission Day 1459, Part II
The slender six-hundred-meter long ship shuddered and protested as the heavier-set interloper approached and took the offensive. “How’d they come up to us so fast?” Herb asked, bracing himself. Klaxons raised hell about atmospheric co...
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Prospekt
I climb free and rise, slowly, my bones hurting, every muscle screaming, my skin torn and dusty. The sky is grey. I stagger away, feeling nothing at all. Around me the dead are walking. Their eyes are hollow and aching. Mine are probably the same. Trud...
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Down Below
I sit, blinking slowly behind my glasses. The concrete is dull and cool beneath me. I scuff my shoes miserably against the hard ground, and wait for the reprimand that always accompanies the action. There is only the shuffling quiet of people trying to...