The Lifeless | Story Engine Contest
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Complete Sun, May 16, 202116m
|Contest theme: An Alien wants to stop the government from discovering a primitive machine, but only the dead will know of their sacrifice|
A young amateur soldier was climbing the ranks for the sake of impressing his father but he then discovered the secret behind what he was fighting for.
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