The last humans in the solar system studied the death of Earth from their vantage point two-hundred-and-thirty miles above Hawaii. Long-range scanners measured the violent shift in tectonics as the planet’s inner core ripped apart. The expected devastation had been predicted as far back as the twentieth century. What the observers had not foreseen was the release of something from the core.

Energy readings and changes in mantle density plotted the escape route – circular at first, as it devoured the perovskite and ferropericlase, then moving up as it ate into the asthenosphere. It left nothing in its wake, the Earth now only an empty sphere.

The scientists knew that anything created within the five-thousand-two-hundred-degree core was nothing short of magical.

Still the anomaly moved outward, absorbing the inner earth. Some feared this was dark energy, that it would not stop at the consumption of the planet but would touch the space station and instantly transform it – and its crew – to nothing. Others posited that upon reaching the surface, whatever irregularity they were witnessing would pop out of existence. Both theories were soon proven wrong.

The first breach was detected on the opposite side of the planet. Within minutes, another hundreds-mile long fissure swallowed the Arctic Ocean. A third took out Antarctica and the fourth opened in the Pacific, north of Hawaii.

From this final break in the Earth’s crust, the onlookers were afforded their first glimpse at the entity. Twelve gigantic antennae, a translucent shade of ultra-violet, pushed forth, stretching miles ahead of the bulk to which they were attached. Its form too big for the opening, the creature pulsed until the remaining skin of the Earth split into myriad pieces.

With a gentle beat of its four wings, the lifeform swooped away from its now-discarded egg.

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About The Author

So you've finished your book or collated your collection of poems. It's almost ready to print. Just one more thing is required: that mini-biography that sits somewhere before the title page. How would yours read? I'll go first.

EvelynDawn

70 reads

About the Author (Only, the Majority of the Information is on the Author’s Sense of Humor, Since this is a Humorous Piece)

Evelyn Dawn is (probably) a human being who lives on the face of the planet. As you could have assumed from the fact you’re reading a book she wrote, Evelyn loves writing. She also enjoys reading and making bad animatics. This is literally everything Evelyn can say about herself, since anything anyone writes about their own personality would likely be inaccurate. Oh, did you not know that in many recent About the Author sections the author writes about themselves in the third person? That’s a little odd.

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About The Author

Rob_Lee

79 reads

ROB LEE is an acronym for ROBotic Letter Election Equipment, a device created by professors at Cloudsville Theoretical University. They wanted to prove that enough monkeys at enough typewriters could produce a line of Shakespeare, and deduce how many monkeys were required. Unfortunately, they were denied the grant for bananas. Instead, they developed software which would produce a random string of 327,811 letters. This is the result. (The undergraduates were left with the task of placing the punctuation.)

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Mantra

Write a 3 line mantra that can be repeated to lift and calm yourself.

StoryByRoss

30 reads

Belief

I place hope in others.

I cultivate love in myself.

Together, they outweigh any uncertainty.

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Adam's apple

Glen

17 reads

Apple Of My I

I’m in the big apple with Eve

watching a fight at the garden

Naked to my Atoms

But I won’t beg your pardon

Temptation is everywhere

The snakes are just startin’

The knowledge of innocence lost on our faces

Cast from paradise. I’ve been kicked out of better places

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Limericks

In this case, I hope everyone knows what a Limerick is. The more humorous the better. The more awful the better. If you have more than one, better still. I hope we can make each other laugh. As always, I'll read them all and then decide on the winner.

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Chapter 58 of 83

batmaninwuhan

The brick joke

there was a poor boy,his name’s Nick,

he was born with a terrible tick,

So a bridge he climbed up,

but not for to jump,

but to cast his bad luck with a brick

to be honest, i am all too ravenous,

my stomach is spacious and cavernous,

i eat to excess,

i make no pretence,

and so my shape’ is mostly gelatenous.

i have a young girl , she’s so cute,

she never holds still, she’ll soon scoot,

as already mentioned,

my weight and my penchant

so the running is not such a hoot.

some words, they fell into disuse,

like hoot and scoot and abacus,

but why should i mind,

the words left behind,

if my spelling is so outrageous.

my students, they can’t understand,

the words that i write, chalk in hand,

so instead , cards i make,

and let those brats take,

presentations with games to expand.

elevators hate me , they do,

i am not being paranoid, its true!

they avoid coming down ,

when they know i’m around,

it’s my weight , that they fear, i construe.

on the car hood there is a big dent,

it is sad and the car i lament,

if it wasn’t for Nick,

and his f**ing hard brick,

impacting the car in decent!

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Ad Space Here 2!

Advertise in less than 50 words on just about anything (Yes, you can do a shameless self-promo here). Whoever catches the most attention wins! :)

scripts and scraps

Chapter 57 of 83

batmaninwuhan

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