Category: systmadmn
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The last thing I heard was a crack—an ear-splitting, gut-wrenching crack. As I woke, I found myself staring at the ceiling. It was fuzzy at first, from the suddenness. A strange mix of emotions swirled inside me. Some I could identify like hurt, betrayal, sadness, but the others I wasn’t sure of. They held a…
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Janette took a seat at the end of the make-shift bed. The sheets were tattered, and the pillows were flat. But it was the best they could do. Alex turned her gaze to the side. Her hand slid over her wrapped abdomen. She hated being seen like this, weak. Janette didn’t seem to mind the…
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Alex’s fingers tapped the counter. She could hear the gasping “tell me more” from the table behind her all the way to the two agents in the far back corner babbling about the supposed to be top-secret mission they were going on next. Trying to tune out their conversation, Alex rubbed her forehead. “Come on,…
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Janette watched her parents place lilies over the rectangular gravestone. Her feet swayed back and forth while she hummed a tune to herself. Her parents brought her here once a year to put flowers on graves of those she’d never met. They always seemed sad. But Janette was far too young to comprehend their grief.…
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The artifact stood before her. It was round yet sharp with cut wires reaching out for unknown places around the ruins of the past-future. It was technology too complex for Janette to understand and too old to possibly work the archaeologists told her. A mirage of what once was—Janette decided. The metal was garnished with…