People are not born good but are born drawn to the dark We may feel like we have no impact But on this world we leave a mark

We must fight our true nature to overcome the guilt We must live in the goodness of our hearts To not let this world wilt

You may want to leave And say this place is dreadful But no matter how hard you try You can’t admit that it’s not forgetful

You think things will get better If you just move on from it But no matter if you leave or not You’re still filled with sin

We can’t poison another world Just because this one is damaged If we continue to try and move one It will be too much to manage

We must stay here And fix what we’ve already broken For if we do not This word will not get woken

Hi my names pup what’s up did you know iam small like a mouse my human always wears a blouse but I lover her and she loves me

Today is now the day we were set to leave Earth. To get onto the ships, to fly away for a better life. With green grass, blue skies and a world which would thrive for generations of humanity in the future. But today I am staying right where I am.

In this dying world, the sole option for humanity to not be extinct is to travel to space, where we can inhabit a planet light years away. To get there? You need priority to get onto the ships which take you, otherwise you may have to wait ages to escape the Earth - there are two ways to do that. You either have to be insanely rich, or you have to be part of the Adept - a group who are skilled enough to lead and develop our new planet.

Me and Giselle were part of the latter. Our tests, we had passed. Our classes, we were the top of. Three weeks ago, we were told - to our delights, we were part of the Adept program! Our ship would leave for the New Land on this very day. Sure, there were risks about being an Adept. Assassinations were common, people would kill the Adept so more places could be given and you could be part of the Priority. But the benefits outweighed the risks!

We had worked so hard for this moment - helping each other out. She was the brains of our pair, the super smart girl who could solve every problem you threw at her. Whereas, I was the fighter. I'd been learning martial arts from a young age - and I had learned to shoot and was even proficient with a knife now. Without each other, there was barely any chance we'd be in the program at all, if it wasn't for the other we would be nowhere close to leaving Earth.

Giselle was one of the only people I had now. Outside, the grass was more grey than green. We had never seen the sky as blue as it was in history books about the 2020s. Barely any flowers bloomed, barely any trees grew. But she brought colour. She brought light. She brought friendship. She would assist me with assessments, she'd compliment me, take walks with me and stay with me throughout almost the whole day. We were almost inseperable. And there was this one time. I blushed so much one time I saw her. And it just- it just happened. We kissed and it was the most perfect thing I'd ever felt, but as we did this the world caved in.

I heard the noise first. The sound of bombs and gunshots outside her house, that we were in then. People were trying to break in, all masked and armed. I pushed Giselle back, and she hid behind a sofa in the living room. However, they managed to get through. Someone I could not make out knocked me out.

The next thing I knew I was told she was gone. Just so people could get priority. No idea at all why I didn't die too, but it doesn't matter. I am dead inside already, and I'll stay where I am until Earth does the same. I am staying here for Giselle, and the better life we never had.

The study room was silent for the first time in the school year has, for the first time, everyone was actually studying. Even Marcus, who prided himself in how he didn’t ‘need’ to study to ace his classes, was on his laptop, forehead wrinkled in concentration. Today was career day, and everyone was doing research on what planet or space station they might want to apply to be stationed at. Everyone I knew was excited for graduation and to be sent to an off-earth post. Our friends, Lielah and Luce, who were the only one of us who were in a serious relationship, were going to apply to a private couples pod off of Jupiter. Even quiet, shy little Selca was thrilled for intergalactic travel - they wanted to be on Mars, with the troops. I wasn’t excited about this - I didn’t want to leave earth, but try as I did, I couldn’t find a way to actually explain that to my friends. No one stayed on earth… as soon as you turned 16, everyone left, except for pod mothers, and I defiantly didn’t have the aptitude to be a pod mother. Because the truth was… I couldn’t space travel. I was born with a rare disease called asthma, and if I walked through a portal, the brief second where you couldn’t breath, would be deadly to me. According to Doctor Stephans, there was a 87% chance I’d die. But I can’t tell anyone, because I would be executed. Once upon a time, Asthma was uncontagious, but now it was so so dangerous that if I wasn’t on such heavy medication, everyone in my pod could have contracted it and be stuck on earth as well.

Commercialised space travel began in the twenty-twenties, near on twenty years ago. Since then over sixteen thousand flights into space have been made.

My Mother was the first in my family to go. She was rich so it was no skin off her teeth to pay a small fortune to see the world from above.

Then my brother and husband went together on my husband’s stag do. I’ve never been a traveler, I’m a woman with a very weak stomach, that’s what my mother used to tell me. Every time someone I knew went to the heavens I prayed they’d return to me safely, and every time they did. That was until Monday the eighteenth of August twenty forty two. The day I almost lost my daughter.

It was a school trip she was invited on. She was nervous about flying just as I was. “You’ve gone and given her your nerves you silly woman” mother would scold me. My husband promised our daughter everything would be okay, but I was convinced something bad was going to happen. We argued for weeks about it, but eventually I gave in.

“Flights to space happen every day, she’s only going around the moon she’ll be back by tea time.” That’s what my husband said that finally convinced me. So that morning I packed her bag and sent her off on the bus. I felt sick all day, it became so bad that I couldn’t take it anymore. I left work early and drove as fast as I could to the space port.

I got there just as my daughter’s class was about to board the ship. “Fiona you are not boarding that ship” I screamed to her, halting her and her class in their tracks. “Mrs. Gillespie you can’t just show up and disrupt the class like this, your daughter is in safe hands” her teacher attempted to reassure me. I wasn’t having it! Fiona was coming home with me no matter what.

By the time the teacher had realised there was no way to make me come round it was too late. The ship left without her and the rest of the class. Children began shouting at me and Fiona, some were crying, the teacher looked so angry she could have exploded and then…

BOOM!!!

We all looked up to see the debris falling from the sky. The ship had exploded just a few hundred feet after lift off. We all stood silent. I cradled Fiona close to me as her teacher and I shared a look of horror and bemusement.

They say a mother always knows when their child is in danger, and that day I knew.

I saved the lives of fifteen students and their teacher that day because of my instincts. Even after the event the space port remained open, people carried on like it was nothing. Like forty-two lives hadn’t been lost. I demanded my husband or my brother swear to never board a ship again and they promised.

My mother? Well, she was on the ship that day. Wanted to surprise her granddaughter.

My family will never board a ship again. We will always remain down on Earth.

As a child Avery always wanted to go to see the stars . Mainly because of his father . His father Allen West was the best astronaut. When Avery went to college his dad went on his last space mission. Avery felt like his world had ended. After the accident he vowed never go to space . That’s what brings us today . Avery standing in his balcony looking up at the stars . He has lost in thought . Avery felt familiar muscles arms wrap around his waist . His boyfriend put his head In Avery’s neck .

“ you did it again babe “ “ I know sorry “

Avery turned around in his boyfriend’s arm . Putting his arms around his neck and looking into his eyes .

“ every time I see your green eyes they just do something to me “

“ come on in my love looking at the pods leaving and coming you must be cold “

Noah is Avery’s handsome boyfriend . He had everything Avery wanted not cause of the way he looks but cause he has a caring heart .

Hand in hand walking back into the penthouse and seeing dinner on the table .

What do you do when the world you know, starts to fall apart? The answer seemed simple you run, but to a certain scientist that answer didn't seem quite correct.

You see intergalactic space travel had been the rage for a while, so it came as no surprise that when the Earth began to rot and its colors slowly started to drain, people packed their bags and left. It was easy, just book a ticket and you were on your way. The only item you needed was money, and a large sum at that.

For a well renowned scientist such as Finn this wasn’t a problem. He had more than enough money, to book himself a ship to wherever he wanted to go a fancy one as well, the ones with spacy high-tech rooms. He was perfectly able, but Finn was a particular person, and he had a particular of making decisions.

So, while everyone fortunate enough to afford the high price tag were making haste to get on any ship possible, before all the ships became packed. Finn sat in his living room…thinking. Out all the ways a Finn could spend his time, thinking is what he did most, sleeping came as close second. Although Finn thought a lot more than the average person, he was still terrible at it.

Maybe that was the reason he was unable to come to decision. He knew he was able to run, but something about that just didn’t sit right with him. He did not have any problem with running away, by all accounts Finn was one of the biggest cowards he knew, although he didn’t know many people.

It was the part of being able to run that bothered him, perhaps it was because he was a scientist. He solved people’s problems, and to him this was a problem. If a wheelchair helps people who are “unable” to walk. He didn’t like the fact that spaceships only took people who were “able” to afford the price.

So, as the last ships left the docks and headed for the realm of infinite possibilities, known as space. He just sat on his couch in his dark living room. Thinking…

“That’s it!” He proclaimed as he jumped up off the couch. “I’ll stay, I’ll stay and fix this planet! I’ll make sure everyone survives…” He said to himself. Finn wondered if he could fix this planet, before the people in space came back to see what had become of the planet Earth.

Finn, who was known by his peers as the craziest scientist was now the only scientist left on Earth. And as chaos ensued outside all over the world among the people who were unable to leave. Finn stayed in his house or better yet, in his head…thinking.

Hell on earth, and Finn had just signed up to extinguish the flames.

i can’t go back home earth, she’s sick and almost dead at peace together

My hands grip the cold air as hands grip my shoulders.

My eyes struggle to capture sense in the overwhelming dark.

“They’re the last one,” an Enforcer explains in a muddled voice. I rip away.

“Get them!” a voice calls as I struggle through the maze of emptiness.

Don’t take me. Don’t take me. They won’t take me.

Not when the fate of humanity lies in my hands.

Not when the idea of evolution beats in my heart.

Not when there is a chance for change.

I walk around the barren nothingness as I feel an overwhelming sensasation. I fall to the grass as I look to the moon. I imagine what he’s doing up there. I wonder if he ever thought of me. The idiot who fell in love with him and stayed on earth. When everyone else left. When it was proven that if you stay, you will die. I imagine him remembering the nights we spent staring at the stars. The nights we spent praising the very earth he left. I feel the life leave my chest. I look around as I hear a buzzing noise. I look up as I see him run off his ship. I try and get up but fall trying. I see him run towards me as he grabs me and sobs.

“Why couldn’t you have gone up with me?!” The last words I hear before I die.