In December, I started participating in Shenandoah Valley Writers' Weekly Flash Fiction Contest.
The first round was a 100 word story that started with "On Friday, everything changed".
This was my entry:
On
Friday, everything changed. Its no exaggeration when you are referring
to the emotions of an interplanetary civilization with 150 billion
inhabitants. On Thursday (Sol standard date), those 150 billion had
unparallelled hope. The Institute had given them a promise. They
claimed all tests indicated it would work. A new era, poised to begin.
On
Friday, the test vessel failed. It wasn’t the first time a colony had
undergone explosive decompression. Previous orbital colony failures had
resulted in more casualties. It wasn’t the failure of the colony. It
was the vessel. Humanity now had to accept faster-than-light travel
was impossible.
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