The Earth is becoming increasingly hostile to human life. Some people are fleeing the planet or retreating into domed cities called Artens. Most are being left behind.
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Our destination, aboard this generation vessel is a watery world called Proxima B.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) March 27, 2019
We will never see it.
Neither will our children.
Our grandchildren will be the ones to settle there.
And if they survive, if the get a foothold, then humanity will survive.#microfiction #scifi
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2.
All four of us desperately wanted to get off this dying rock.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) March 28, 2019
We applied, and all made it through to the final selection.
But genetic diversity needs wouldn't allow both my brother and I to go.
They were picked, we were not.
I'll try not to hate them.#microfiction#scifi
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3.
"But I don't have a kid, and they know it."
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) March 29, 2019
"You're a genetic engineer. They need in there. They'll let you bring her if you insist. Please?"
I watched my friend enter The Arten, my baby in her arms. I smiled through the tears, knowing she would survive.#microfiction#scifi
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4.
For the past 30 years, I've been working hard for little pay, stuck in this underground city.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) March 30, 2019
But if I were on Earth, I'd be out there in the waste, hoping desperately to get into a place like this.
So, thanks, Ashley, wherever you are.#microfiction#scifi
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5.
But here is the thing: I'm not grateful; I'm pissed.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) March 31, 2019
I'm stuck living in this dome for the rest of my life, paying for something I didn't use, decisions I didn't make.
So don't expect me to be happy that my life is less ruined than the people outside.#microfiction#scifi
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6.
The bad is that the longer the people still outside the dome survive, surviving today instead of thinking about the future, the longer the Earth will take to recover.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 1, 2019
Their quick death may be the best chance humanity has, apart from that generation ship.#microfiction#scifi
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7.
It is like a zombie movie out there, but without the zombies.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 2, 2019
I have to get out, before temperatures rise and tempers flare.
The city will become a war zone.
It will be too dangerous for anyone who wants to be left alone.
Only the cruel will survive here.#microfiction#scifi
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8.
And so, here I am, living what once might have been the dream.
— Wild Speculation Studios, Andrew Reising 🌈 (@WSpeculation) April 3, 2019
I spend my days fishing and lying on the beach, soaking up that radiation.
Its a peaceful life, waiting to die.
I have a bet with myself over whether the sun or a hurricane will take me first.#microfiction#scifi
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