Thank you Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for continuing to set this 100 word or less challenge. It is certainly a commitment appreciated by many. Other 100 word stories can be read here.
Photo prompt by Liz Young
And we waited.
Emotions a recipe of fear, excitement and desperation.
We were about to lead the people of earth to a better place.
The first colonist, non-specialist, earthlings to be shot into space.
Sent to the moon to practice living off-world.
Others had gone ahead, to build, to test, to prepare.
Many of them remained, prepared to be our mentors.
With no living family, no loved ones to miss or to worry about us, we were the chosen ones.
On behalf of mankind, we would make this work.
Succeed, on behalf of the species. [95 words]
RANDOM THOUGHTS by Trish 
Lovely tale brimming with hope.
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Trish,
What clever storytelling, giving us a window into the moment and all that went on before! Well done.
pax,
dora
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Thank you Dora!
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Even though they were chosen because they had no one here, it could end up to be a wonderful adventure. Seems kind of exciting to me. Very nice piece of sci-if!
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You cleverly incorporate a grim note into what is in many ways an exciting adventure. I think it’s probably the word ‘desperation’ in your second sentence. Excellent take on the prompt, too.
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Thanks Penny!
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A big step. I hope they succeed!
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Nothing to lose except life itself; possible gain for all humanity. However, one wonders if an off-planet settlement created by humans will ultimately be any different than life here on the blue globe.
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There are so many books that explore the expulsion of people onto other worlds. Often there is the element of ‘need to leave because earth is doomed’ – wars, over population or diminished resources.
But there is also a large number about the adventure, the new horizons, space ‘the final frontier’.
Man is always man, good and bad. The real disappointment is how we always revert to character and overwhelmingly destroy and find a reason to go to war.
For the 1 person delighted to meet an alien, there are 20 who are afraid of difference, or don’t want to share.
Same, same.
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Dear Trish,
“The chosen.” What else did they have going on? Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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it’s the future. in a hundred years, it’ll be a reality.
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I thank them for their sacrifice! Let’s hope it works out for them.
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I could never do it!
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They will succeed. I just have this feeling… and there will be family soon, too. I’m sure of it. 🙂 Great story.
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They’ll make colonist babies.
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In the future, this could well become fact, not fiction. A colony of spare people. An interesting take.
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Thanks.
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Glad to hear it’s not a penal colony. 🙂
I’m sure they’re in for quite an adventure.
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There’s always a group who goes first. Only, why do I have the impression that they didn’t have a choice? Great story.
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I’d like to see a follow up, 100 years on in a colony founded by the bereaved, the unloved, and the unlovable.
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Trying to inspire me, Neil? ^^
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Yup
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Very interesting..
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Oh boy… these earthlings are in for a surprise… love the use of “chosen”… it’s always the expendable ones who are used to colonize…
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Yep. 🙂
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🙂
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Good luck with it. Since there were people who went there before, eventually things must have begun to kick in or others wouldn’t have dared to follow them
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Yeah, but these newbies are just ‘normal’ earth people. Not bred for this kind of adventure 🙂
Thanks Larry!
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I can’t help noticing that. It will never be within their reach
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They’re fodder. Martyrs?
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