The miners played an important role in the welfare of the town. Without them, it was clear, that starvation and disease would set in. The capital investment had to come from outside sources for the entire operation to work.
A dozen subterranean monsters came; the end of life was in sight for Shmitzlograd. A great tusk breached the ground near the miner's village. Thirty feet long was the first monster, and it was without doubt that more would follow.
With lasers and turbines, the villages fought valiantly. It was only after weeks that the mine was once again theirs.
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99 Words is a pet project I started in 2011 when at college. The idea was that I didn't have time for writing, but still had passing fancies, visions, plot ideas, and the like. Instead of tossing them to the wayside, I came up with a plan to turn those notes into little chunkules of text, each 99 words long. This is section is still updated.