1. The news had said pieces of the wreck were scattered on impact, but she hadn’t really grasped the fact that she’d be finding parts of the plane in her fields for years afterwords.

2. One of the more disturbing things about being told the aliens you’d found were roughly as intelligent as pigs, was discovering just how intelligent pigs were…

3. Wishes were supposed to be used for important things– like money or love or happiness or even revenge. You weren’t supposed to use them on stupid things like male pattern baldness or heartburn or the fact that you kept forgetting if you’d left the oven on or not.

4. It was odd what you missed, in a galaxy far far away. He stood in a forest of things that weren’t quite trees in a season that wasn’t quite fall, and tried to remember the smell of the pines.

5. The time to start worrying is when the little voice in your head switches from ‘somebody do something!’ to ‘if I hit him hard enough, he might drop the gun’…

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1. She had made them, so she unmade them. Peeling skin from flesh, flesh from bone, she stripped them down to nothingness in a heartbeat.

2. Mankind was sort of like army ants, throwing themselves en mass against obstacles until they overcame them. So it really should have come as no surprise when the rest of the galaxy panicked and started throwing up as many obstacles as they could, in the hopes we’d finally run out of bodies to throw.

3. Stubborn doesn’t begin to describe Benjamin.

4. “I wish for a thousand wishes!”
“Okay.”
“Wait, that actually works?”
“Why not? I’m immortal, I’ve got time.” The genie gave her a long look. “But no wishing for immortality yourself or the deal’s off.”

5. …and then there were penguins!

These story prompts are released into the wild per Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License, so sayth their author Martha McMahon Bechtel.

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