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The 100 Word Stories Podcast100 Word Stories Author: Laurence Simon
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Talk to Mars
Monday, 16 March, 2026
The signal from the Mars colony stopped. We tried to connect to the emergency relay satellites, but they didn’t respond. It took a month to prepare a rocket to launch. And several months for it to reach Mars orbit. Long-range photos revealed nothing. Several probes landed nearby, releasing drones and crawlers to investigate. One went through a hangar bay, passed through an airlock, and rolled through the empty hallways. And then, it reached the auditorium. Hundreds of chairs, neatly arranged, a body sitting in each of them. Were they… smiling? Facing a podium with the chief administrator slumped over it.
