George Orwell's Hollow Earth

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Hollow Earth
Preface
On a summer morning when almost everyone was in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia was awake, an asteroid as big as a 30-story building hit near Tunguska River. It flattened trees and scorched buildings, but when we tried to investigate, they neither found the crater nor the asteroid, that’s when we surmised about them.
Crash Landing Thomas Vermin, an ordinary kid in the magnificent city of Kalcrest the capital of the entire Hollow Earth was not ordinary for the past few days. For the past few days he’s been chewing on his finger nails, waking up in an unorthodox manner, head nearly hanging of the edge, feet where the head is supposed to be and head where is feet are supposed to be. Not to mention how early he’s waking. The reason is that his dad, Andrew Vermin, an astronaut that works for the UOTS (Up on the Surface), was to return a few days ago. “Since I can’t sleep why not take a walk outside.” Thomas thinks. He happens to stroll by the UOTS’s Ground Station when he hears a BOOM. When he up he could see the space ship his dad used when he launched, the xXSurfaceoftheEarthXx, a few keces (equivalent to a kilometer) away. He runs to the space ship to see if his father’s okay. In a matter of minutes he was there, but he wasn’t the only one to arrive, …show more content…

With no experience with flying and no rules he had learned so he was screaming in the cockpit thinking about his will. Then he remembers that planes always have controls. He took hold of the joy stick and pulled up. He still ploughed through the ground, but at least it didn’t explode. He got out and waved the dust away from his face. He trudged out of the forest and made way to the nearest city. When he arrived at Krasnoyarsk Krai it was nearly empty it was only 3:00 in human time so he was pretty early. He just realized how tired he was so he made a bed of tall grass in the meadows and he instantly closed his eyes and went to

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