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Short fiction
A collection of short fictional essays.
NPC
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.”
Read MoreInitiation Ceremony
The torches that lit the narrow stairwell burned intensely and in the wrong color, flame like melting gold or shattered suns.
Read MoreX17
Short story inspired by “doc” Smith’s Lensman novels.
Read MoreArtifacts
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…
Read MoreSeven Signs
The Seven Signs of the Singularity (a collaboratively developed list).
Read MoreProspiracy 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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