UNITY | The Flabbergasting Flash-Fic Smackdown 2026

A Scifi Anthology for The Flabbergasting Flash-Fic Smackdown Prompt Challenge.

Cynthian Ludo stands among four men, recruits chosen for a retrieval mission to a long abandoned earth.

The target.

Five Luminous beings that looked like they had been woven of star-mesh. But these light beings were more than just translucent frames of star dust. They contained the last data logs of a peace delegation that went wrong many years earlier.

And the recruits are not merely retrievers; they are grave-robbers sent to salvage the last witnesses of humanity's ruin.

Cynthian was chosen by an algorithm that identified her as being an 'empathetic resonant,' but Corporal Neith believes otherwise.
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A Scifi Anthology created for The Flabbergasting Flash-Fic Smackdown.