Writing Prompt

'What a mess,' Rick said looking at the crash sight. 'I don't get paid enough for this,' he mumbled as he pulled a cigarette and lighter from his jacket pocket to light. The air was brutally cold in Antarctica's frigid climate. Snow seemed to stretch for miles with no sign of life. In the near distance, rough and ragged mountain cliffs surround the crash sight.

Just as Rick was about to light his...

It’s dark. I can’t see. What’s that strange noise? Where am I? Am I trapped? Is this a dream? I’m confused. I hear this weird sound its like a humming, no not quite. It’s loud, so very loud. Should I move but then again i don’t know where i am or what’s outside. What is that noise, its bothering me. There’s noises like someone banging against something, are they trying to help me? But who are they...

A shiver racked my body as I pulled my knees closer to my chest.

“No one can know.” I told myself, rocking back and forth as a way of finding comfort. All my ears could listen to were the blaring sounds of machines cutting through the metal of my ship.

I brought my hands up to cover my ears, grinding my teeth together in a futile attempt to drown out the noise.

“They’re gonna find you…” I whim...

It had taken five hours for the crew to get the testing equipment out to the crash site. The location necessitated the use of helicopters to drop off the personnel and vehicles twelve kilometers deep into the Shawnee State Forest. The snow was not fresh, but still thick as the cold grip of winter held on to the woods. Each member knew it would be of the utmost importance that they keep their missi...

What are these idiots doing! Don’t they realize we are still with the ship and all their working is walking us up.. some grumpy n others not.. I’m intrigued by the men themselves n how the can’t pass thru anything but are very solid!!!! Especially this short one in front of t of me breathing heavy n working to keep the sweat on his ntow to freezing… I lean closer n to my surprise he says any clos...

Another day, another crash. These sightings used to horrify us humans but the more they came, the less we cared. Sort of like UK knife crime. These rare deaths we would hear on the news left us in pure shock. We’d hug our families and pray. But as they became the norm we became less affected by it, we no longer prayed.

These crashes were similar as we reacted the same way to these events beyond o...

𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚞𝚙 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚗𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚋𝚢. 𝙸 𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚎. 𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚖𝚒𝚍𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝. 𝙸 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚋 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚙𝚊𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚛𝚞𝚜𝚑 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚊𝚒𝚛 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛. 𝙰 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚏𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚎**٫** 𝚌�...

I couldn’t believe what is in front of my right now. A UFO crashed in the middle of a field. The front half of the ship had fallen off. Nobody knows whether the ship had fallen or if this was a targeted attack.

“SAM,” I heard someone call my name from the distance. I whipped around and saw my co worker, Renton, knee deep in the snow.

“WHAT?” I called back.

“We need you to join our team and go in...

I get called out of bed at 4:00am. It’s all hush hush top secret. After putting a leg to trousers, I am herded with a few dozen others into a truck. A gruff sergeant forces waivers and pens upon us. Squinting through sleepy eyes I read something about losing my livelihood if I tell anyone about what’s what. Hurry up, shouts the sergeant. I quickly scrawl my name.

Twenty minutes later and the...

For the first time in months I was actually interested in my job. A unknown space shuttle crashed today and I am part of the investigation. As we drove we joked about it being a falce alarm but as I’m looking at the ruined remains of the ship it really doesn’t look man made. I stared at my team mates all dressed in red scurrying around. Someting about the ship was calling to me. Maybe it was just ...