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The Cruel Earth: A Mini Duology

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Reads 53
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Parts 3
Time <5 mins

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The number one #minifiction! Micro duology written for @WattpadSeries "Mini-saga Duology Challenge".

The challenge was to produce a two-part story, with only 50 words per part - 100 words total.  Given that's about six sentences, it's a hell of a challenge!

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In this vast and unforgiving Earth of ours, one thing unites all beings (as well as quite a few metals) - attraction. Life's attraction to other life is as inherent as breathing, or gossiping. It is within all of us, that sacred need to seek out other life and share in our years with it. We can no more escape our attraction to other life as we can death, or taxes, or catchy pop songs.

So how does that feeling, that bond, that drive, connect us to the past, present and future?

You will not learn the answer in this story. But, you will read a relevant tale in two very tiny parts that is potentially quite a bit shorter than this blurb.

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