Category SS Prompt 3: Translation

SS Prompt 3: Translation
Word Count: 2500 Words exactly
Deadline: 25 March 2020

Please do not post before the deadline.

Party at the End of the World by Jessica Cherinka

A small group of boarding school students are left alone on an empty, evacuated campus as a blizzard brews outside.

Jess
March 26, 2020
4 Comments
13 mins

Th-e Glitc-h

A story about quantum leaps and translation failures between dimensional and interpersonal planes.

Eliezer Araujo
March 26, 2020
2 Comments
8 mins

Lost In Translation by Tom Mullane

I felt myself getting inpatient with the man who was supposed to help me.

Thomas Mullane
March 25, 2020
3 Comments
13 mins

The Camping Trip by Sandy Menarek

It was ten o’clock in the morning and Thelma wasn’t there yet. They had coffee every day at this time. She looked for her out the window every couple of minutes. Thelma still didn’t come, so she called. “Where are…...

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Sandy Menarek
March 25, 2020
2 Comments
13 mins

Close Encounters with the Devil by Kim

Enyo took in the stunned face, the too-wide eyes: the whites distorted ovals around the gold-flecked irises. She felt rather than heard the Emperor cry:“Guards! Guards!” the sound seeming to drum like a battle cry against the confines of the…...

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Kim
March 25, 2020
8 Comments
13 mins

A Verdant Oasis by Limor Kay

To everything there is a season...

Limor
March 25, 2020
5 Comments
13 mins

Lost in translation by jaya

Have you ever travelled to a foreign land, where you don't know the local language ?

Jaya
March 25, 2020
3 Comments
12 mins

The Score by Mara Adlem

Do we really know?

Mara Adlem
March 25, 2020
3 Comments
12 mins

Our Land, Our Mountain by John.

Dina walked up to library counter holding Vanessa’s hand. “Come now Vanessa. We haven’t got all day.” Vanessa was carrying the latest book in the Famous Five series as well as two other books by Enid Blyton. Dina took the…...

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john
March 25, 2020
2 Comments
13 mins

Fighting the rebels by Adriaan Snyman

We fought well. We could shoot well. But we had, to that day, no idea what bravery and self-sacrifice was.

Adriaan Snyman
March 25, 2020
3 Comments
13 mins

Playing with Magic by Kiri Adams

Floating candles bobbed in the air above the large table sitting in the middle of the library. The candle light cast dancing shadows on the books that were lying open on a large wooden table. A young girl sat in…...