Deep Ocean Floor
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Just a little (personal) trivia:
When I was 15 years old, I wrote a 40,000-word novella for the MYP Personal Project (part of the IB programme). It was the first story I had ever written-a sci-fi, first-contact story. Reading it now, everything from the plot to the writing is absolutely terrible, but it will always mean the world to me.
I had developed such a strong emotional bond to the characters I had created that writing the last page felt like I was bidding a forever farewell to people I deeply loved and cared about. I was sobbing, and sobbing...
The main character's name was Scarlett. One of the other characters-an astronaut who went with her to the Alpha Centauri star system-was named Luke.
Since I wrote this short story (Deep Ocean Floor) for my undergraduate degree's Final Year Project, and since it is also a sci-fi, first-contact story, it felt fitting to bring Scarlett and Luke back to life. I am so glad that, through writing this, I was able to briefly meet them again.
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