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Micro-fiction 066 – Microphage (Echoes series)

A bio-engineered attack force designed to surround, absorb and destroy the enemy, microphages aren’t supposed to survive the battlefield… Microphage It’s 3080 of the Common Era, two decades after the end of the Great Struggle, where tensions across the planets of the Council of Seven had exploded into a hundred year war that affected human imperialists, indigenous civilisations, and hordes ...

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Micro-fiction 065 – Tragic Beauty (Echoes series)

A beautiful woman, and a shade face each other in the cellar. What is the dark secret that led them there? Tragic Beauty My head hurts so much, as I watch her weep. She must be the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. Sitting in the corner, on a simple stool she’s dressed in a tight black skirt and jacket, ...

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Micro-fiction 064 – Collector (Echoes series)

The Collector awaits inspection of his floating museum by members of the Galactic Council. Will they be happy with his latest exhibits? Collector Today is a special day, for them at least. For me it’s just another irritation, a visit by the bureaucrats of the Galactic Council, on one of the inspection tours of their investments. My team and I, ...

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Micro-fiction 063 – Manifesto (Echoes series)

(continued from Three – Deliberation) The conclusion to the four part mini-series investigating consequences and solutions of insurrection in a star system of the Council of Seven. The Principle of the Ten finally give an answer. Four – Manifesto The Insurrection on Koi Beta, with the death of thousands of humans and indigenous people had been led by a local ...

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Micro-fiction 062 – Deliberation (Echoes series)

(continued from Two – Human Nature) After the insurrection on planet Koi Beta the debate moved on to the nature of Humankind as the Council of Seven try to decide how to create a new, lasting government for the sake of the 84 star systems with their deliberations on democracy. Three – Deliberation Elector Solveig watched the members of the ...

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Micro-fiction 061 – Human Nature (Echoes series)

(continued from One – Insurrection) The revolt on planet Koi Beta has prompted the debate about its future in the Galactic Council of Seven. The discussion moves on to “What is Human Nature?” Two – Human Nature “So we are gathered to discuss the fate of the Planet Koi Beta,” Elector Solveig continues, “to decide how we respond to the ...

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Micro-fiction 060 – Insurrection (Echoes series)

A revolt on planet Koi Beta prompts a great debate about the future of humankind in the Galactic Council of Seven. Insurrection The year is 4010 of the Common Era. The Great Expansion of 3000 CE saw the human race spread across the galaxy colonising every habitable planet, and in the great tradition of its insular past, subjugate the indigenous ...

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Micro-fiction 059 – Ritual Renewal (Echoes series)

The warriors, elders and children are gathered for the annual ritual of renewal for one last time… Ritual Renewal Deep in the forest of their birth, protected by both bogs and guile the tribe gathered at nightfall for the final ritual of the season, to protect their lands for another year. The moon was full, the sky awash with glittering ...

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Micro-fiction 058 – Tall Trees (Post-Apocalypse series)

Dreaming of trees we journeyed through space to a new planet, hoping to seed the future for humankind. Tall Trees I still can’t believe they left me here. I know they weren’t my real parents, and the crew were in a panic, but really, they could have waited. I think they were assumed I was delirious, lost. Maybe it was ...

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Micro-fiction 057 – Angelo (Post-Apocalypse series)

Love is desperate in the darkness of a post-apocalyptic world. Angelo Their love erupted in the darkest, deepest alley. It seemed to stretch ever further into the shadows where the light was absorbed slowly, then expunged entirely. There too, sound was deadened, muffled, the shunting of distant cars felt like thuds underwater, and the stench of decay overwhelmed the slick ...

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