Author: Reena Saxena

The chosen words or situations for this week’s prompt -https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/01/12/reenas-xploration-challenge-263/ from Baba Vanga’s predictions for 2023.

Alien invasion

Clara loved staring at the stars, they were gorgeous, sprinkling the sky like sugar on her doughnut. It was only a few years ago she landed on Earth, living with another family.

Time passed more slowly here, so three years were like three days at home. It took a while to get used the twenty-four hour day. Now it was like she never was on her home planet.

She missed home, but the strangest difference was babies were born to parents. Not in a laboratory. Her first memory was rows of cots, watching her fellow children grow like buds on a rose bush. Only moved to parents when they were old enough to talk. It was strange watching her earth family bring a new baby home.

They couldn’t do anything but cry.

I have chosen words or situations for this week’s prompt from Baba Vanga’s predictions for 2023.

• Devastating solar storm
• Explosion in a nuclear plant
• Human birth in laboratories
• Alien attacks
• Earth changing its orbit
• Bioweapons

You need not use the words verbatim. You can use one or more of the situations as a stimulus for imagination and base your piece on it.

Fear and the UNKNOWN: The Promotion of Fear and Ignorance through Censorship

Jesse folded his hands and sat back from the computer screen.
The staff prediction’s list in front of him, of mostly apocalyptic events, made him chuckle. Most had already happened to some degree and the others were based on what his more alarmist fellow science fiction editors liked to call unverified ‘conspiracy theories’.
He’d come to accept that blatant lack of self-awareness from co-workers, that was currently spreading faster than Covid-19, but rather than get…

Sudden pandemonium was all around after the Alien attacks, as a devastating solar storm caused an explosion in a nuclear plant, which was followed by Earth changing its orbit.  It was clear that there was no hope left for mankind and we were all going to die and even human birth in laboratories would not help us.  When the aliens started using their bioweapons on us, all hope was lost.  It was so frightening expecting to be killed any minute, and I just wanted it to end, so I put my head between my legs, and kissed my ass goodbye.  Destruction was all around, and I couldn’t pretend that it wasn’t happening, so I had to face the music knowing that there was no coming back from this.

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge 263, where she gave us 6 phrases or situations from Baba Vanga’s predictions for 2023 for…

Hey everyone, before my take on Reena’s Xploration Challenge, I have some sparkling news.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that I’ll be part of the upcoming Hidden in Childhood poetry anthology. Huge thanks to Gabriella Marie Milton and Literary Revelations Publishing House for the opportunity to join over 150 remarkable poets in this captivating compilation.

If you open the pages of this poetry collection, you will be mesmerized by the talent of the contributors, and by the range of stylistic approaches they use to recreate the world of childhood. The pages you will read memorialize the beauty and magic of childhood – remembrance of love and fairytales – as well as its ugliness – abuses, poverty – that unfortunately still exist in our world…

Extract from Gabriela’s preface, continued HERE

This really does promise to be something special.

Okay, do you sometimes accept to be taken advantage…