Category: <span>Short story</span>

I. The book lay open at pages 34-35. Janesin read the line again…      There cannot be two suns in the heavens.             Genghis Khan A quiet giggle escaped his…

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Abandoned by this God. Perhaps, not by the next.      Ten… The ship squatted like a large inert crab in the launch area. Inside were stowed the seed corn, one thousand carefully…

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“The gods sometimes are slow in their work.  They’re on a different clock than us mortals.” Bit O’Luck Lounge.  Figures a mick would toss in the big O and apostrophe,…

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The door shut behind the President, with a solid clang.  He had the large visiting room to himself—except for the two Secret Service agents who stood on either side of…

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Its journey through the cold, black, liquid vastness lasted ten centuries.  The time attenuator kept time’s passage the same for both it and the homeworld.  Mankind, its creator, patiently waited…

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What is death but a dream within a dream. —James Clavell Is the existence of life a divine miracle or merely a pathetic mistake? —John Quinn The absolute, or Kelvin,…

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I was destroyed yet made complete; darkness descended upon my life as a great light; wretched things did become great treasures; cool, healing touches burned and wounded; I wept for…

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Gyril was bored.  Unbearably so. He didn’t feel like reading, not even his antique books, which if not for the ultrafilt unit would’ve now been covered with a coat of…

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Monday 11:31 P.M. Gabe wore an analog watch.  He’d paid twenty bucks for it at a garage sale ten years ago, and it worked perfectly fine, as far as he…

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“The insistence on absolute good requires absolute tyranny.” —Cyril Teeter, Utopia: Implementation and Maintenance Upon entering the room, the quisitor smiled, almost sympathetically, thought 439, and took a chair across…

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