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
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...