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The Unknown
Flash Fiction Prompt | April 2025
[Begin Transmission]
"If anyone’s out there... please, listen.
This is Captain Elara Quinn, orbiting what’s left of Earth. The surface—gone. Cities blinked out like dying stars. It wasn’t war. It wasn’t nature. It was something else.
We thought we were alone. We were wrong.
I’ve heard the whispers in the static. I haven’t slept in days. The others—gone. One stepped into the airlock voluntarily. Another kept repeating, 'It’s already inside.'
I locked myself in the comm room. Cameras show nothing… but I feel it. Watching. Breathing. Waiting.
The air’s thinning. My hands are shaking. If anyone’s hearing this, don't come up here. Don't answer the signal. It’s not me anymore.
Something’s—”
[static]
[End Transmission]
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