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A puff of wind caressed the sand dunes, creating hypnotic ripples on the surface. A few fine grains rose up, making the warm air even harder to breathe. Acrididae tightened his lips around the cigar in his mouth and took a long drag, as if the heat from the planet's three suns did not bother him in the least.

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This story was written to participate in the Halloween Vault 2021Contest for the Adventure category. The rules required that you be within five hundred words and use the following eight: vessel, tunic, antenna, trap, mutant, cigar, insect and guillotine. 
I wanted to write an adventure inspired by and linked to another original sci-fi story of mine: "The Rite of Passanger". 
It deliberately contains tributes to some literary classics, can you spot them? 
I hope you like it and have fun. 
Enjoy your reading!All Rights Reserved

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Dust

All the earth is torn asunder. There used to be grass, and the sun used to be golden. Children played outside, climbing trees with smiles on their faces and grass stains on their knees. People worried about a million things that would soon be irrelevant, continuing without a clue of the disaster to come. Centuries later, what little is left of humanity survives in a society constructed beneath the surface of a glass dome, the world outside converted to little more than a desert wasteland. Survival is a routine rather than an effort, and all rules are surpassed by only one: if you want to survive, you never leave the dome. There's nothing alive out there. The radiation that soaks the earth makes sure of that. Until one day, someone finds a bloody, dust-covered handprint on the outside of the glass. Nothing will ever be the same again. Book 1 of the Burning Series Highest ranking: #13 in Adventure on 03/04/16