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Writing Prompt

STORY STARTER

It's been a year since Oppy sent his last fateful words from Mars: "It's getting dark and my battery is low". But now he's back online and NASA is receiving scrambled messages in a foreign language.

The scene has been set. Write a story based on it.

Writings

Echargedray

"Isthay isway Opportunityway. Atterybay ackbay onlineway. Elphay omfray yingflay igspay uchmay appreciatedway. Eythey endsay essagesmay ofway eacepay andway osperitypray orfay Earthway."


The scientist leaned back from her computer and looked around at her colleagues, all peering at the same screen.


"Okay," she said, "does anybody here speak Pig Latin?"...

Alien
Private

Mark rubbed his eyes,looking back to his watch,pursing his lips as he made a valiant effort to read the numbers as they swam. Taking a good minute to decipher the code that was his watch,he sighed in the recognition that he still has a whole hour (really it was just 53 minutes,but Mark was always one for theatrics) left of his shift.


Looking back at his monitor,he gasped as a sound like white no...