The aliens held a cloaked orbit round the earth for several weeks. At last the commander turned to his second and waved his ears. 'The human race is not worth anything as it is. Put the planet in the crucible. Let's see if we can't produce something better.'
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Flash Fiction
Historia CortaTwitter has a daily prompt using the hashtag #vss365. This thread will be for pulling those stories, plus other very short stories, into one place. There are a mixture of genres, the occasional sequence with repeated characters, and a mix of serious...