Short Story from Autocrit contest written by me. Theme: Treasure Jonathan taps his pencil against his math homework as he listens to his mom chat on the phone in the other room. He glances at the clock to see if it’s time for his dad to come home from work. His deep brown eyes widen…
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Sirens of the Deep – Chapter 4
“Archie, ye don’t have to tell us what happened next,” Chester’s voice said in the distance. Archie blinked several times and looked around. He saw he was back in the tavern, far from where the space sirens had attacked his crew and ship. He shook himself out of the nightmarish memory and looked at Chester….
Sirens of the Deep- Chapter 3
Archie stood beside Rocky, the tall, tattooed buzzed headed brute, who turned the Angel of Death into the galaxy winds. The ship sailed smoothly through a field of comets. Rocky maneuvered around the comets, keeping the crew safe, but also gave them quite the ride. The men laughed and cheered as Rocky zipped this way…
Sirens of the Deep- Chapter 2
“David, bring me the map, would ye?” Archie said as he looked down at his map of Crescent Rim Galaxy. “Aye, Captain,” a low voiced short man with a bald head said and joined Archie at the digital map table, a small ball in his stubby fingered hand. “Here ye go, Cap’n.” Archie took the…
Sirens of the Deep- Chapter 1
Challenge from AutoCrit I decided to sign up to try my hand at a challenge before AutoCrit and had so much fun I signed up for another one. But this one is different as the people of AutoCrit gives you the first sentence, a twist, and then the last sentence that you have to incorporate…