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The Light

The man stood on his porch in the dark. It was always dark here, but he liked standing on the porch looking out into that inky blackness. Not for any particular reason, he mused, deflecting himself from the true reason for his regular vigils. He lived alone, as, he assumed, did everyone else. It was […]

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The Girl Who Waited

Waiting was always painful for her, but waiting for her loved one had taken that pain to new heights.

While it would be no lie to say that they’d both sacrificed a lot to finally be able to touch each other, to hug, to kiss, to sit next to each other in companionable silence, just soaking in each other’s presence. It was more true that her loved one, sitting in an passenger plane, with its cramped seating in the pressurized narrow metal tube, held aloft by human ingenuity and the roaring deafening sound of its engines, and, of course, the inordinate financial cost of such an endeavour, had made the greater sacrifice.

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Star Trek: Gateways (intro draft)

Stardate: 55570.5 (Jan, 2379) Darkness, lit only by the occasional spark or flickering console. Commander Jason Anthos blinked to make sure he still had vision. He looked over at the closest officer, Science Officer Baldwin, who was nursing a rather nasty cut on her head, presumably when something above her had exploded, sending shrapnel everywhere.

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