It’s Friday Fictioneers time! The challenge is to write a 100-word story in response to a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Follow the link to her blog for more information. Thank you to all who take the time to read, like, or comment.
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot
Prime
Incarceration on the prison planet Ouroboros is equivalent to a death sentence. Training on how to survive the harsh environment is offered to prisoners during transit. Those who listen are usually killed for supplies by those who don’t, who later die because of their own ignorance. Few survive long. Fewer leave.
Prisoner 6081809, known as ‘Prime’, looked up at the pink sky. Crossover was his favourite time of the cyclical year: when Ouroboros exits the orbit of one sun and continues its figure-of-eight journey into the orbit of the other. Chemical trails indicated a new consignment was landing.
Fresh meat.
Thomas Charles Henry 
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