Category: Free Short Fiction
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Star Empires: Agents of Empire “Introducing Mister Black”
She was obviously an assassin, obviously targeting him. And over the course of the last week she’d had plenty of opportunities to kill him. So why was she still there, waiting and watching? Why was he still alive? And in the back of his mind, the insidious, niggling question. What had he done?
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“Run”
I had to run. Not like the way some people are inspired to, like running marathons or five miles on a weekend morning while everyone else is asleep. No, my inspiration was quite different. And I was running blindly. I can’t even tell you where. They might find out. It was very late on a…
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Star Empires: “Points of Conflict”
“What you do with your own souls is your business. What you did to ours is an entirely different matter.”
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Star Empires “Aether”
“What is she-?” “Well I’ve glanced at the breakdown of file contents-.” “She’s not a file! She’s a person!” “Well yeah. But she’s also a torrent. A download package containing a number of different files and programs. She is a product of her contents. We all are, really. But in her case, if you wanted…
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Undiscovered Countries: “Volition”
I began the journey of my own volition. The physics I understood only enough to make them work, dragging a thin line through probability. An ode to Einstein and existentialism, that I could break rules and the shell of destiny at once. The reason slipped away after the first month. After two the ability to…
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Undiscovered Countries: “Hope Among the Ruins”
The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, now, as of about a half hour ago, was a cockroach crawling across the remains of a burnt out world. I know what you’re thinking, but hear me out. I came upon this burnt out husk of a planet, just as the flames were fighting for the last…
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Undiscovered Countries: “Francis”
“So what’s your problem?” “I don’t have a problem.” “Obsessive compul-“ “Wrong. Chrono-obsessive disorder, and it’s not a problem. It’s a condition. Perhaps I should put up a sign explaining that to people so as to avoid conversations like this in the future.” “What does it mean?” “It means that I know when I’m going…
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Star Empires Between the Scenes: “The Dead”
“There were nights when I feared being released to be returned home. When I would rather face death at the hands of my captors than the eyes of my countrymen.” “And then the humans came for me.” Ghrannar looked away from the two meter tall red crystalline Tsantarii and into the morning crowd. There were…
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Star Empires Between The Scenes: “Broken Hallelujah”
(Author’s Note: this takes place between the events detailed in “Star Empires: The Entropy Machine” and “Star Empires: Empire Enslaved” see below for links to purchase both novels on Amazon) Admiral Helen Nogulich stopped outside the doorway. There was music coming through, and singing. Light and scratchy and tired, as if someone had been singing…
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Undiscovered Countries: One Miracle Left
It’s a windy late afternoon, like so many other windy late afternoons. I can just see the sun, hidden behind the dust and dirt that hangs in the air as if it’s always been there and always will be. The dust and dirt that must move in the wind, but never seems to change from…
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