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I crawl into the box in the loading bay and wait. Something isn’t right. I shouldn’t have been able to get this far: security is too sloppy. Perhaps it’s fate, I try to convince myself. But I’ve never believed in that crap. Someone’s helping me get on board that spaceship.

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A 50-word story written by Bruce Arbuckle, inspired by the Freewriters Writing Prompt on Hive, “loading bay”

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_{All my stories are my own. I do not (nor have I ever, nor will I ever) used any AI program to write my stories. I am personally against the use of AI to write (for me the whole point of writing is to use my own brain: that is the joy of writing for me). The screenshot is of a word counter app that I use when writing my stories to check that my Humpbuckle Tales are precisely 50 words long. I am human, #NOTaRobot}

Bruce Arbuckle (felt.buzz)