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Invasion Part 7

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Kolek is back with yet another chapter in the Invasion series…

Murray and Lisa left and closed the tarp behind them. They didn’t know what lay inside, and caution was best in this situation.
Team Ninja was called in to lead the way.
Ninja was made up of 12 highly trained former Rangers, Seals, SWAT, and Urban warfare soldiers who fought for the resistance. They quickly threw in a flash bomb and stormed the tomb.
But what they found was not a tomb, or a high-tech bunker, or anything they expected, but a large, simple room with blank walls. However, when they searched with their flashlights, they found something very odd…

Abstract Art

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Jackson discovered, quite by accident, that if he ate nothing but spinach for a day, his poop would be green the next day.
Experimentation showed that a diet of beets resulted in dark red excrement.
Rice with plenty of turmeric ended up as yellow feces.
Carrots – lots of ’em – generated loaves with an orange cast.
He was ready.
He ate the biggest meal of his life, one food at a time, sequentially. Then he took a handful of Doxidans and stood naked over the huge blank canvas, waiting patiently.
In just a moment, thought Jackson Poolock, Art Happens.

Moonlight

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Russell Burt writes and performs in the Come Let Me Whisper podcast, and he’s written a book from his tales.
Here’s the other story he submitted to the last Weekly Challenge.
If y’all write multiple stories for a Weekly Challenge and hate to see them wasted, feel free to send them in for mid-week posting.

The Salesman

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He was the best salesman north of the Arctic Circle, they said, and they were right. Yukon Will was his name, and he could sell anything to anybody.
When Seward bought Alaska from Russia, it was his great-grandpa that closed the deal. Will inherited the family talent.
He made a comfortable living for years, selling refrigeration equipment to the Inuit. Yep: iceboxes to Eskimos. But they loved him for it.
When he died, they carved his image on the base of a wooden pillar. “Who’s that?” people ask, and I answer:
That’s Willy – Lo Man on the totem pole.

Invasion – Part 5

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Kolek from The Kolektive has decided to join the crew of regulars in order to flesh out his Invasion series…

Murray quickly got down to business. He entered the Biotank with his brother and tore open the envelope. “Looks like they found an ancient tomb” Murray told his brother, breaking regulations, “They want me over”.
“Is the resistance so hungry they’ll go corpse hunting?” Jim joked.
“Heh, probably something…” Murray stopped in mid-sentence when he remembered the intel he recovered.
“What?” Jim asked.
“I think this might have something to do with information I stole from the aliens…”
He reread the packet and sure enough, the picture matched the description he recovered of the Artifact’s resting place. They found it !

Invasion – Part 4

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Kolek from The Kolektive has decided to join the crew of regulars in order to flesh out his Invasion series…

Murray resigned himself to a quick and violent death when he spotted the Biotank heading his way. There was no cover here against the tank’s railguns.
So he was surprised when he saw blue stripes on it’s sides; it was human occupied! The tank’s rear hatch opened and his brother, Jim Murray, climbed out.
“They sent me over,” Jim said, “without telling me anything”.
“Need to know.” Murray commented, as Jim handed him a packet.
“Why do they always trust you?” Jim complained, rolling his eyes.
“You’re not authorized to know,” Murray said with a grin, and they laughed.

Invasion – Part 3

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Kolek from The Kolektive has decided to join the crew of regulars in order to flesh out his Invasion series…

“Shoulda put that damn phone on vibrate” Murray thought when his phone loudly shrieked. The aliens began firing their weapons and he ducked. He then detonated the pack bomb. It didn’t hurt them, but it did stun them momentarily.
He took the opportunity to flee and take the call. “I’m in some deep kim-chee here, what is it?”
“We found a… thing at LH-5.” His caller said. Murray shut the phone and continued running. He wondered what the “thing” was.
Now, however, he had other things to worry about. He saw a Bio-tank lumber down the street towards him.

Mime 3

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Andrew Ian Dodge continues the saga of The Mime…

As the boat stopped Maurice tried to access his options. He expected to hear splashing soon as the others were tossed overboard. There was no splashing only muffled screaming. The mime was not sure what he heard but he knew he felt something wrap around his body. Something that felt cold, smelled fishy and was quite strong. He felt himself rise into the air and the muscles in the tentacle tensed around him. Maurice tried to wriggle his way out its grasp and tentacle gripped harder. The mime’s breathing became increasingly hard he barely had enough to scream. He tried…

Caveat Lepus

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A rabbit hopped into a bakery.
“Ya got any carrot cake?” asked the rabbit.
“Sorry, no,” said the baker.
The next day, the rabbit came back.
“Ya got any carrot cake?” asked the rabbit.
“Sorry, no,” said the baker.
This went on for days. The baker began to feel bad for the rabbit, and so he decided to bake a carrot cake – cream cheese icing, the works.
The next day, the rabbit came back. “Ya got any carrot cake?” he asked.
“As a matter of fact, I do!” said the baker with a smile.
“Tastes like shit, doesn’t it?”

Pianissimoforte

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And now, for the first time, a mid-week 100 word story by Caleb Bullen of the Black Tie Martini Club Oddcast:

The defensive Baritone thundered at the conductor, “I can’t do this! Pianissimo is not my forte!”
The conductor countered meekly, “Of course it isn’t. Pianissimo isn’t anyone’s forte, the two words are antonyms. What you meant to say, I’m sure, is that Pianissimo is not your forte. You see, forte means loud and forte means something you’re good at”
“But I’m a trained baritone! What I’m good at is being loud! So again I say, Pianissimo is not my forte!”
The conductor swallowed two more aspirins and wished he’d listened to his parents when they suggested he become an accountant.