Polly endures loneliness and hostility in a world that doesn’t understand her difference. But some things never last… Polly Hedron She could not remember when she last smiled. It seemed an irrelevant notion except that whenever she walked along the streets, and out to the prairie beyond if she encountered a group of people someone always shouted out. “Hey darlin’ …
Micro-fiction 053 – Stewards and Avatars (Post-Apocalypse series)
The fate of humankind is subject to a parley amid the bitter hundred year war across space. Tasked by the Intergalactic Council Titan attempts to find a resolution. Stewards and Avatars The three vast armies of the human factions, the Northern, Eastern and Central had fought each other to a standstill across every planet in their sector and every mote …
Micro-fiction 052 – The Blacksmith and the Stars (Origins series)
In the Hebrides, the Storyteller settles in at dusk to tell the ancient tale of the Blacksmith and the Stars. The Blacksmith and the Stars “Let me tell you an ancient tale.” The Storyteller, with the sun sinking behind her strikes up the familiar toll. In front of her is the natural amphitheatre carved from the headlands by the relentless …
Micro-fiction 051 – Chrysalis (Echoes series)
The curious tale of a mother, a wardrobe and the night-time terrors of Gabe. Chrysalis “Well why don’t you want to go to bed?” My Mother kneeled, her lovely eyes peering at me, in that way, you know, I knew should would love me forever. She was everything to me, and I used to watch her move through our wood …