Writing Prompt
STORY STARTER
In a world where space travel is the norm, your protagonist chooses to stay on earth.
Write a story from this character's point of view, revealing details about their reasons for this stance.
Writings
Woken
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 wil...
To Be With Her
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?...
The One Less Traveled
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...
Down on Earth {WHM #14}
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 wo...
Avery
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 . Ave...
STrAY
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 y...
Don’t Take Me
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 evolut...
The Only One On Earth
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 night...