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This story is my second entry for the Open Novella Contest 2023.
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The Prompts
Prompt # 4: You are an archeologist working on a dig when you find a thick pane of glass. You dust the dirt away to see the inside of a massive bio-dome, hidden for too long. Only one organism is inside, and it was meant to be forgotten.
Prompt # 16 The world did not end in a bang, or a whisper, but rather one scream at a time.
Prompt # 49 Master the rules of the game until you can play it better than they can. Michael Scott, The Sorceress.
Prompt # 54 As townspeople are overcome with a deadly sickness, it's up to you, the only one not afflicted, to find the cause and cure.
Prompt # 62 Hell is empty and all the devils are here. - William Shakespeare
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The Thing Within #ONC2023
Teen FictionFor eons, the people of Crisium spun tales of a subterranean continent called Frigoria, located deep beneath the perilous Ice-Cap Mountains central to the continent. Over centuries, many have explored the icy region, only to turn up empty-handed. As...
