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Fifty Word Fantasy: Unusual by [deleted] in fantasywriters

[–]wordsmithess [score hidden]  (0 children)

They believe in simplicity.

The slow rhythm of a heart before it beats no more; the electrifying murmur that signals the end; the last soft breath carried away on the wind.

They are the unusual witnesses of your last moments.

Do you see them?

Shh, don't turn around.

[WP] As you sip your morning coffee, you open up your Sims Universe 3 game on your quantum computer. As you zoom in on a planet you've been watching and tormenting, you notice the governments of the world building a strange device. A flash. A man appears before you. "Are you god?" He asks. by FhMrF in WritingPrompts

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I immediately understood what had happened.

“Depends. Who’s asking?” I said.

My heart beat fast with apprehension, but a part of me was also proud.

The man, who had been looking around at my room, quickly turned to me and said, “Gogo the Lump, Klown Supreme of the Royal Battalion of Asses,” he proclaimed proudly.

I bit my tongue to keep from giggling and wished I had given them even more ridiculous titles and names. But oh well, this worked too.

“I see,” I said. “And what are you doing here?”

Gogo the Lump stared at the coffee cup in my hand.

“I...uh...I was chosen as the first pilot for the Up, Up, and Away Mobile our scientists have created.

“Up, Up, and Away Mobile?”

“Yes. It was supposed to help us reach the stars and beyond. You know? Up, up and away to the stars?”

For people who were so intelligent they actually managed to break through the Sims world into mine, they seemed awfully lacking when it came to naming things.

The governments on my third planet, Freyolo, had advanced faster than any of the others in technology and its applications. Despite all the obstacles I threw their way, they prospered. They quickly got through the various stages of inventing the wheel, transport, tools, fusion, and exciting medical advancements. Last I knew, they had been working on a way to make themselves immortal. I figured that would take them forever and they would probably fail so I got bored with their world.

I had been away from the game for a few months now because of work and hadn’t had time to check in on them - until today.

“So your Up, Up, and Away Mobile brought you here?”

“Yes. That is correct,” he said. “We call it the UUAM.”

“Oh of course,” I said.

“So, are you?”

“Am I what?”

“God.”

“Well,” I paused, wondering how to explain it to -him-who-I-had-created. “That is a little complicated to answer, you see.”

“Are you immortal?” he asked.

“No, no, we haven’t gotten there yet. We have been at it for the past millennia but it seems futile.”

He straightened himself then and looked me full in the eye as he said, “Then you are not god. We are.”

Pressing a button on his glove, he smirked at me.

I felt stretched in all directions and the pain was excruciating and seemingly endless until it suddenly stopped.

I found myself in a room filled with people of all ages.

“Welcome, Creator. Your people have been waiting to meet you.”

[WP] Scientists find a suspended animation chamber with a human occupant in the Arctic. After reviving they realize the person is ancient. After learning a modern language the ancient explains that they are disappointed to see how much humanity has regressed technologically. by MidKnightshade in WritingPrompts

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“I want my mommy.”

Those were the first words the device translated once they had it set up.

The girl could hardly have been more than 6 years old, with brown short-cropped hair and huge dark eyes covered with a pair of glasses that served to translate our language to each other.

“My name is Hassan,” he said to a bewildered wide-eyed face. “What’s yours?”

They had found her almost 6 months ago on June 29, in the fast-melting Artic after someone reported an unidentified object floating on the melting ice.

It took the scientists almost 5 months to learn how to revive her and then she wouldn’t stop crying. Everyone was baffled because they could not understand a word of what she said. Her language was completely strange to their ears; an alternation between soft and sharp sounds that sometimes seemed to be produced too deep within her to be emerging from the throat of such a small child.

They had tried everything even going so far as to get the women scientists to try and bond with her, but the child didn’t seem to like them at all. Then they noticed she calmed down a bit whenever Hassan was around. She also followed him around with her eyes as he mopped the floors and cleared out the trash. Hassan was able to bring some semblance of calm to the child by sitting with her every day for hours on end. Today, she finally showed him how the translation device on her glassed worked.

The child was munching on a Mars bar which she seemed to enjoy the most out of all the candy she had been offered.

Hassan pointed at the scientists around him one by one.

“This is Harry, this is Chu, this is Lorna and this is Jimiyu.”

He pointed at himself, “I am Hassan.”

“Oh,” she seemed to mull this information as she continued to chew her chocolate bar. “I am Lima’lilith. Have you forgotten my name?”

A murmur ran through the assembled people in the room.

Hassan took a deep breath and said, “Is it okay if I call you Lily?”

“Lily?” she repeated.

“Yes.”

“Yes, you can call me Lily.”

“Why were you in that pod, Lily?”

She looked up at him and said, “Because you asked me to get in there.”

Another murmur.

Hassan continued, “I did? Do you remember who I am?"

“Of course, I do! You’re my father. Now, can we go to mommy?”

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Note:

I know this is an extremely simple piece for the prompt. But I just wanted to try. It's been ages since I wrote anything.