11.1 50 Year Lie
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
4.4 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
50 Year Lie
There's something strange happening on the moon. A lone commander clicks the button to speak into a communications box, hoping, as he has for half a century, that someone on the other end will pick up.
Written by Daniel Willcocks
Narrated by Ian McEuen
Edited by Karl Hughes
Music by Miguel Johnson and Thom Robson
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.6 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all. |
| 0:13.8 | Light and breezy. |
| 0:16.2 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:20.8 | Book your train journey via avantiwestcoastcoast.coast.com. |
| 0:25.1 | Avante West Coast, feel good travel. |
| 0:31.5 | These aren't the stories your mother told you. |
| 0:38.5 | No, these are the other stories. |
| 0:50.9 | 50-year lie, written by Daniel Wilcox, narrated by Ian McEwen. |
| 1:00.6 | If nothing else makes this transmission at all, I want to share one simple truth. My name is Neil Armstrong, and you've been lied to. |
| 1:13.1 | I release my finger from the control panel. |
| 1:16.4 | Count to three, take another deep breath, and repeat the words. |
| 1:21.4 | You've been lied to. |
| 1:24.7 | I continue this process for 30 minutes. |
| 1:28.0 | My hand shaking as I press the button again and mutter into the worn microphone. |
| 1:33.6 | It's much colder out here in the exposed, empty surface of the moon. |
| 1:39.1 | I can barely see the ship's console through the scum that has built on the inside of my helmet over years of |
| 1:45.5 | neglect, and the biting winds are beginning to kick up dust. I look cautiously around for any sign of |
| 1:53.9 | them, then confirming the cratered landscape to be clear, complete my ritual. |
| 2:03.0 | Repeat the message. |
| 2:13.2 | When I'm done, I sigh, spin on my heels, take a few long, low gravity steps, and begin my race back, |
| 2:17.7 | all the while watching my peripheries for any sign of movement. |
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