Archive for Science Fiction
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CHOKING GALL AND PRESERVING SWEET • by Elizabeth M. Thurmond
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She comes here at odd times of day, despite the conventional wisdom that you don’t visit the Santa Monica Pier near dark. Something about the creak of the timbers, the lap of the waves against the seawall, and the wind off the ocean helps clear the cobwebs out of her head after a long day [...]
Romance, Science Fiction, Stories
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GIVEN HINDSIGHT • by Adam Armour 18 Comments
Young Harold opened the door to his bedroom and was surprised to find Himself-Twenty-Odd-Years-Later sitting on his bed. He looked rough, as if he’d been gone over with old sandpaper and then beaten with sticks, and he was fiddling with the small chunk of petrified wood his Grans had given him several years ago as [...]
Humour/Satire, Science Fiction, Stories
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WARNING BELLES • by J.C. Towler 21 Comments
Bill Hobinson stomped his feet against the cold, then grabbed a couple of milk pails and headed into the barn. “Good morning, my lovely belles,” he said. One of the cows mooed. He set an old wooden stool beside Sadie and pulled off his gloves. He grasped a teat in each hand then suddenly found [...]
Science Fiction, Stories
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COG-WORK CAT • by Joyce Chng 22 Comments
A cat of jet black pedigree has a black body; teeth, eyes, claws, tongue, all are black her tail is so long that it will touch her head – First Lucky Cat, “Nin Rad” (Black Jet of Jewel), Cat-Book Poems She was born obsidian-black, her body casing smooth, cast from metal alloys. Inside her was [...]
Science Fiction, Stories
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HIGH ROAD • by JR Hume 13 Comments
In hyperspace there’s nothing to see. No starbow, no point of light. Only gray nothingness painted on blank canvas. Teller Transport pilot Asmon Cron knew that painting well. He’d driven the starship TT Kilo through hyperspace fifty-one times, according to his personal log. In the gaps between stars, normal space is different, locked solid in [...]
Science Fiction, Stories
