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Short fiction

Fictional stories, short and otherwise.

  • Three Worlds Collide

    My most controversial, most condemned, and most highly praised story. Starts with the baby-eating aliens and moves on from there. Warning, 8-part novella.

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  • The P-Zombie Apocalypse (aka Zombies: The Movie)

    “These zombies… are different. They’re… philosophical zombies.”

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  • Non-Player Character

    I looked at the screen for a few moments. Rilanya’s rendered graphic was looking at my point-of-view with a pleading expression. Plot point, I thought to myself, and typed: “Anything, Rilanya.”

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  • The Sword of Good

    What does it mean, if it’s been prophesied that you will make the ultimate choice between Good and Evil? Why wouldn’t you just choose Good? And Hirou carries the Sword of Good – which instantly slays any wielder not of good intentions…

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  • Initiation Ceremony

    “The torches that lit the narrow stairwell burned intensely and in the wrong color, flame like melting gold or shattered suns.” – First in the beisutsukai series.

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  • The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover

    This was intended as a bit of utterly deranged fun, but ended up as a deep philosophical exploration. Vernor Vinge x Greg Egan crackfic.

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  • The Hero With a Thousand Chances

    After every defeat, the Dust takes another shape and once again tries to destroy all things. What is the mysterious Counter-Force that keeps the world alive?

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  • Trust in God, or, The Riddle of Kyon

    A wee bit of Suzumiya Haruhi fanfiction. I should probably never do this again.

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  • Failed Utopia #4-2

    With perceptual instantaneity – the speed of surprise – his mind had already labeled her as the most beautiful woman he’d ever met, including his wife.

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  • X17

    Short story inspired by “doc” Smith’s Lensman novels.

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  • Artifacts

    In the western spiral arm of our galaxy lies a star system and a planet occupied ages ago. On one mountain of that planet there is a great structure, thousands of cubits tall…

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  • Prospiracy Theory

    Out of habit, I identified the surveillance drones; a CIA sparrow, an FBI robin, a bluetit from the Men In Black, and a flock of honking ducks that was probably one of the Illuminati’s newfangled distributed devices…

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