A Short Story

The space Ark

Part 1

“G”

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Hi, thank you for taking the time to look into this short read. This marks the first read out of many short story e-publications that I plan to release to the world. I love writing stories wether they might be fictional or something close to home. Today you’ve helped me accomplish my dreams and I thank you for that. Please enjoy this short story about a mans journey aboard the Space Ark and the challenges he will face.

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dad’s Ark

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I remember the first time I seen it about 15 years ago. It was my 17th birthday and pops been working on his special invention for the last year and a half.

I couldn’t believe it was finally done. Pops was always saying “This is how we are going to leave Mars, you just wait and see RJ.”

My buddy Ben was right there too, as he looked and saw my dads invention all he could say was “that’s amazing Randy” My dad and I both looked towards Ben and said “Thanks Ben.”

After that we all just laughed. Pops looks my way and says “Lil Randy come check this out.”

I walked over to him and he opens the door to his invention and tells me to walk inside of it. It was amazing, like nothing I ever seen before. It was very luxurious inside, hardwood floors, granite countertops, and enough rooms to fit a whole football team.

I asked him what does he call his invention. He replies with “Son this is the Space Ark.”

Life on Mars

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My pops had a great job on Saturn before the Space War happened on our previous home planet.

Saturn use to be a lively peaceful planet but now it’s just a P.O.W. concentration camp. Eventually we had to leave Saturn and with no income we had to settle for Mars.

Mars has harsh living conditions, only a small variety of plants can grow there. Mars has only one water source for the whole planet, and only people of a unique blood type can live on Mars without getting sick.

The population of the whole planet of Mars is about 6000 people and they all live on the capital of Mars known as Section 24.

We never actually took a ride in the Space Ark, we actually got use to just living on Mars as the next 15 years passed by.

Ben started a career in technology, he got a job on Earth but sometimes it requires a little bit of space travel.

With my best friend Ben gone it was just me, my dad Randy, and my mom Kathy.

Ben was like a brother to me, and it sucks that he is not around. I don’t have any siblings so Ben is the closest thing to a brother that I knew.

A call from earth

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Today I got a call from Ben with some disturbing news. Ben is describing the last few months on Earth as pretty bad, the crime rate went up and some places are a nest for gang violence.

Even though with all that going on at Earth, Ben is adamant that we have to leave Mars because of future danger. Mars does not have the best technology for space weather, but Ben claims to have information from the technology in Earth about a meteor crashing into Mars in the near future.

This meteor is very hazardous and set to land in the water supply on Mars.

Ben goes on to explain that the impact will not destroy the planet but contaminate the only water supply on Mars.

Life expectancy is likely to drop 60 percent in the next 3 weeks after the meteor crash.

Ben is very concerned for our safety but I am not that worried, neither is Ma or Pops.

You can basically say there has been a ongoing joke for years that the big meteor is going to hit one day and this is not the first time Ben called with a scare just like this one.

Impact

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The meteor crash literally happened later that night. I woke up to hearing it in the news the next morning. To be honest nothing seemed different at first. There was no sound of Impact, everything still looked the same outside.

Later on that evening, the news reporter that covered the news of the impact was found dead at the news station.

Section 24 is now in a state of emergency. Everyone is told to stay inside. After the medic did some research on the fallen news reporter to find out the cause of death, the death was determined as a sudden heart failure with an unknown substance found in the reporter’s system.

The camera man and his helper were also at the site and got tested as well. The same unknown substance was found in their system, this substance was found in the water source after the impact too.

The camera man and his helper where both S type blood types but the news reporter is a K type blood type. K blood type people usually never need any shots to live on Mars but K types have to get an annual Mars shot.

To be continued.

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About the Author

“G” is an individual with several accomplishments throughout life in which one of his best accomplishments is having served in the United States Army. G’s background consist of writing, multimedia, entertainment and technology. “G” is a passionate and true artist with a very creative mind set. In addition to serving in a combat zone over seas, “G” also grew up the urban environment of Florida to where at times can also be seen as a war zone. “G” is a man of many hats, cinematographer, music artist, DJ, Army veteran, and writer. Throughout all the adversity and challenges, “G” is always the one to bring a positive outlook to the room and that people love to be around.