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#921voted by our readers
By InsaneRoman GOLD
Savona, New York

“Night,” Zeke whispered, “Stay awake.” “I am awake…” Night mumbled, lifting his head a little to prove it. “Barely.” He smirked, “I don’t want you to get in trouble.” “Then quit...
InsaneRoman GOLD, Savona, New York
13 articles 19 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
"He's no longer living."
"What happened?"
"He died."


#922 Fiction
By AD100 BRONZE
Dobbes Ferry, New York
AD100 BRONZE, Dobbes Ferry, New York
1 article 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
the best way to predict the future is to create it

#923 Fiction
By Anonymous
#924 Fiction
By Valor GOLD
Hawthorne, California
Valor GOLD, Hawthorne, California
15 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

#925 Fiction
bgirlnumber4 GOLD, Vancouver, Washington
11 articles 11 photos 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
Be yourself, Everyone else is already taken

SomethingCalledTerra SILVER, Budd Lake, New Jersey
5 articles 0 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever"


-Lance Armstrong

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#927 Fiction
By zisisz SILVER
Long Beach, California
zisisz SILVER, Long Beach, California
5 articles 4 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
"a heart of stone, a smoking gun. i can give you life, i can take it away"-bloc party

#928 Fiction
By wooleysheep BRONZE
Seattle, Washington
wooleysheep BRONZE, Seattle, Washington
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#929 Fiction
Soleil_Isaish PLATINUM, Dunellen, New Jersey
23 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
I hate myself because I'll never be perfect, and it kills me to know that.

#930 Fiction
By MatthewAllore BRONZE
Mundelein, Illinois
MatthewAllore BRONZE, Mundelein, Illinois
1 article 0 photos 0 comments