“To all passengers, now we are airborne, I am truly sorry to be the bearer of this news. In the last thirty minutes, an asteroid impacted our planet on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees. The shockwave caused by the impact is currently travelling around the planet at a velocity much faster than we can outrun. At current speed, the shockwave will reach us in two minutes. I would ask that everyone please stay in your seats with your seatbelts fastened and put yourself in the brace position.” [...]
Travis swore blind he had nothing to do with it. His mother wasn’t so sure. She sat a little away from it just inside the kitchen door with her arms crossed. [...]
I could see the finish. ‘It won’t be long now.’ My competitors were dust. Fred turned around, Tony soon followed, Alice went sideways and Rita was dawdling. [...]
Here’s a little origin story for a character I’ve been messing around with. I hope you like him. This is an excerpt from his journal. The time before: So [...]
“you ok Hawk?” Sarah was worried. Hawk was now quite a weight with all the extra passengers and guns. She noticed he was visibly slower as they rose up above [...]
And now the final humiliation. It wasn't Scrounger's fault, his Dragonfly companion, they'd found each other when he first arrived. No, the organisers had thought to put him at a disadvantage by giving him no gunner. So he was stuck. The race was about to start and no partner in sight. [...]
Sitting in an old, dark blue morris van surrounded by his bandmates and their equipment, Brian was worried. If finishing a gig in the St Helier Arms and being paid by one [...]
