An Unwanted Visitors Story (2) Twelve years after Earth's first encounter with aliens, they receive a return visit. Only this time, they aren't stranded and helpless. Young Otis Becker finds himself with access to information he can't explain, yet has to convince the world he can save them from alien enslavement. Hopefully Earth learned its lessons the last time. This is a slow story, so give it a chance to kick into gear. The sequel to "Stranded".
A simple peasant, whose family has been destroyed because of a marauding army and who no longer cares about living, finds himself still possessed of a desire to aid those in desperate straits, and is rewarded beyond what he knew possible.
Write a story framed by a single scene: something happens, a flashback or inner monologue intervenes, and then the story ends with the rest of the original scene.
Christmas Eve - 2012 The predicted Apocalypse of 12/21/12 never occurred. Those who believed breathed a sigh of relief. While families all over the world gather to celebrate Christmas, a group of misfits gather to ward off the loneliness, and sorrows of wasted lives, in an out of the way diner, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and witness the beginning....