Final Shot | ONC2022
kelclou
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  • Reads 359
  • Votes 74
  • Parts 15
  • Time 1h 59m
kelclou
Complete, First published Feb 12, 2022
Mature
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[ONC 2022 SHORTLISTER] When Mal receives the wrong photobook in the mail, room mate Zomi convinces her to try to find Ce-Ce, the woman in the photographs. Instead, she finds bird photographer Leo who can take her to all the places in the photobook...and some places she's never been before.

Based on ONC Prompt 50: 
Excitedly ripping off the package of the photobook you ordered, you don't find your vacation pics, but someone else's photographs of their everyday life. Amazingly, you recognise the neighbourhood and set out to deliver the book to its owner. What happens along the way?
And also ONC Prompt 70:
His eyes were cold and lifeless as he stared at me. 
"You have no idea who I am, do you?"
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Down Under

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|WATTYS 2022 WINNER - HORROR| Shawn, a convicted criminal, never thought she'd see the sun again, let alone call another star system her home. When she's offered an out from her prison sentence, she embarks on a dangerous interstellar expedition along with 18 of Earth's most intelligent criminals. Their task is to set up a base on a supposedly habitable planet and prepare it for colonization. Although the planet has liquid water and a breathable atmosphere, it is believed to host only microbial life. However, upon arriving, Shawn and the rest of the colonists learn that assumption was grossly incorrect. In a brutal attack from rampaging wildlife, everyone but Shawn and four other colonists are killed. The five survivors retreat to the cavernous network beneath the ground seeking safety, but they soon come to a terrible discovery. These caves aren't ordinary caves, and they are no safer down under than they were on the surface. [][][] This was originally my entry for the 2021 Open Novella Contest, and it received an honorable mention! It has now been expanded into a full length novel. I used prompt number 53: "When wildlife starts rampaging, all the humans are forced underground. However, they come to a terrible discovery that being underground is no safer than being on the surface."

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