Taytum's Nightmare: A Short Story

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Gasping for air, Taytum woke up from her nightmare. The same nightmare she had been having for years now. The night both her parents were killed. The night of the invasion. The aliens came down from the sky without any warning leaving a trail of bodies on their arrival. The government managed to drive them off the planet, but everyone knew it was only a matter of time before they returned. The government started every step to protect our planet from another attack. Taskforces were assigned to study the aliens, their home, their language, their biology, their culture and even their habitat. The childhood trauma drove Taytum to join these missions. Many years of hard work and dedication, Taytum is now the leader of the taskforce that is studying

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