Under the Rust
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In the future the government plans on building colonies on our neighboring planet Mars. First a team of astronauts is sent on a mission to live there for a period of time. Things become dire when something unexpected is discovered.
This is a short story I wrote for one of my classes. We had to write it in the Sci-fi genre.
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