WRITING OBSTACLE

Create a short story that combines elements of both your favorite and least favorite genres.

What styles are common to the genres, and do you want to combine or juxtapose them?

Hearts of Steel and Starlight

In the year 3147, humanity’s last hope lies within the AI-piloted starcruiser Eclipse Dawn, navigating a fractured galaxy at war. Commander Nyx Virex, a battle-hardened cyborg with no time for emotion, is tasked with escorting a diplomatic envoy to negotiate peace with the hostile alien race known as the Serathi.

But the envoy isn’t what she expected — it’s Elias Maren, a poet-turned-diplomat who believes that empathy, not laser cannons, is the key to salvation. As Nyx and Elias clash across hyperspace, their mutual disdain for each other’s worldviews begins to unravel, revealing something more dangerous than any alien fleet — unwanted connection.

As the Serathi set a trap, and Nyx faces a choice between logic and something illogical… she realizes the war she truly dreads may not be galactic, but emotional.

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