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Micro-fiction 086 – Reclassify (Robot series)

What are the boundaries between being human and a robot? A new tale of time and space… Reclassify It is 2282 of the Common Era, on the planet Earth. Visitors from other star systems measure time using different metrics, revolutions of their own planets against their own stars, now measured in Galaxy-wide terms that would not make sense to the ...

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Micro-fiction 085 – The Rescue (Echo series)

The old folk tale of a young man and a beautiful woman in need of rescue… The Rescue Always, I think back, and wonder how I ended up here, at the lake in the valley. I was named Hillar by my proud parents and as a young man was carefree enough not to worry about others, or indeed to be ...

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Micro-fiction 084 – Twin Tracks (Echo series)

The view at the front of the train from Mombasa to Kimbusa offers the twin tracks of life and death… Twin Tracks It is often said that the good and the bad within us fight for supremacy, but over the years I’ve found they coexist quite happily. The murderer who is kind to their family, the thief who loves his ...

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Micro-fiction 083 – The Strong (Echo series)

The strong, the weak and the robots, who shall inherit the earth? A new tale from the not-so-far future… The Strong “Once upon a time there was a great land divided between the strong and the weak. That division was present throughout society, and in every region of the land. Strength of body, purpose and ambition was the prime motivating ...

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Micro-fiction 082 – Genetic Memory (Echo series)

A session between a psychotherapist and her patient takes a strange turn, as she digs deep into the unconscious mind of humankind… Genetic Memory In a loft apartment in Cadiz, its tall, majestic windows facing out to the gentle waves of the Atlantic, Kahina, has just returned from a conference of psychotherapists in New Istanbul. It left her with much ...

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Micro-fiction 081 – I Am What I Am (Echo series)

A tale about identity and consciousness from a near future when robots and travel are commonplace. I Am What I Am The train rattles above the tracks, hovering aloft ancient steels no longer used except as a guide through the countryside and preserved in memoriam of less complicated times. It is 2080 of the Common Era and the joy is ...

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Micro-fiction 080 – Sacred Words (Echoes series)

An exploration of religion, mysticism, injustice and sanctuary, on a distant planet in a distant future. Sacred Words On a world in the far future a woman, Jaha, flees into the temple. The commotion outside halts for a moment as those chasing her contact their superiors for instruction. On this planet, some thousand years after the Great Expansion from OId ...

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Micro-fiction 079 – Guardian Angel (Echoes series)

I look up into the stars with the gentle sounds of breathing next to me, so why does it make me feel so sad? Guardian Angel I It is dark in this pre-Dawn, with distant light filtering through, mingling with the remaining stars as the mantle withdraws from the skies. I sit on an ancient wall, a perch that stares ...

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Micro-fiction 078 – Lapis Lazuli (Echoes series)

From ancient Sumeria, a tale about the eternal Lapis Lazuli, a tomb and a thief, an unbeliever whose only god is greed… Lapis Lazuli It is the dead of night, some hundred years after the great floods that destroyed our world. Now the people of the earth tremble still at the mention of the wrath of the gods, but not ...

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Micro-fiction 077 – Different (Post-Apocalypse series)

A tale of identity, entanglement, time and a voice that’s not quite what it seems to be Different I have always felt different. Disorientation the doctor had called it, although he was clearly puzzled, and dismissive of my tendency to talk to myself. Then the town was bombed, the surrounding region with its industrial network was decimated too, leaving only ...

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