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Micro-fiction 047 – Peak Democracy (Post-Apocalypse series)

In this election, the winner takes it all. The prisoner, brother of the New President, receives an unexpected visit. Peak Democracy In the simple cell, the prisoner, lying on the unfamiliar, narrow bed listened to the TV news watched by the guard outside. The voice of the new President, was relayed from a recent campaign broadcast from the victory rally, ...

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Micro-fiction 046 – Lifer (Post-Apocalypse series)

A new bio-tech program offered total surveillance, and eternal life to the world. But there were consequences. Lifer Sometime in the not too distant future. For its own protection humankind adopted a bio-process that enabled total surveillance of individuals and all their actions. The process was known as LiL (for Life Long) and those who took part in the first ...

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Micro-fiction 045 – The Good Doctor (Echoes series)

A visit to the the psychotherapist brings back memories and dreams to Alex Hunter, whose past rears up into the present. The Good Doctor It was late evening in winter, with the darkness already settled into the city streets, and it rained. Stripes like vertical spears rattled at the brickwork of the tall apartments and broke against the guardrails along ...

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Micro-fiction 044 – Complicit (Post-Apocalypse series)

Maria is snatched, from her home, by the State Militia, and her father seems to be responsible.  Complicit The knock came in the middle of the night. The door smashed in, and Maria was grabbed by the armed militia. That really happened, here? Now? It was chaos. An armed swat team shouting, the teenage kids screamed and her father speechless ...

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Micro-fiction 043 – Corn Field (Echoes series)

A field, a death and a return. Josefina is the last surviving member of her family, and now she’s home for the funeral of the father she’s always hated. Corn Field Josefina had come home from the city, to attend the funeral. She’d not been seen near the family home for more than a decade, trying to forget her past. ...

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Micro-fiction 042 – Age (Post-Apocalypse series)

An ancient species from the beginnings of the universe contemplates a strange debate between an old woman and a young man from the past. Age The year is 5055, at least it would be if earth years were still useful to the universe. In orbit around the once named Barnard’s Star a floating laboratory retains particles from dead planets, and ...

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Micro-fiction 041 – Crossroads Hotel (Echoes series)

A late night trip through the Pando Forest brings Jas and Cody to a Crossroads Hotel for some respite and a truly warm welcome. Crossroads Hotel It was past midnight and the two of them scrambled through the darkness of the Pando Forest. It was her idea to camp out, but he had agreed enthusiastically. Perhaps now they regretted their ...

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Micro-fiction 040 – Cosmic Hall (Post-apocalypse series)

The last human in the universe finds there’s more to life than living when she plunges to her death from her starfighter. Cosmic Hall The year is 3020. Pýri’s starfighter hurtled from the deathmatch, the final confrontation between the last fleet of the human race, and the combined forces of five star systems aligned now against their former allies. The ...

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Micro-fiction 039 – Righteous (Echoes series)

The Warrior Priests bring gifts and religion to a planet that has no use for either. How long will it take them to overcome the guardians of the land? Righteous The Ten Brothers of the Illuminated Order of Salvation, the warrior zealots of the Empire arrived at the entrance to the Reservation. They’d landed on the overnight shuttle, groggy from ...

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Micro-fiction 038 – Lost Voice (Gothic series)

She walks along Main Street, and shouts, but nobody answers, all avoid her gaze. What is the shame hidden within the townsfolk? Lost Voice She slithered down the filthy hill, scattering crushed cans and discarded ribs. She had lost her patience at last, the adrenaline of youth propelling her downwards. She had just woken up and stretched her ebony limbs. ...

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