There’s only one way to stop the robots in their tracks… Infinity Trap In the distant future, on a planet once called Kepler 62e long-colonised as part of by Earth’s original evacuation, and renamed Kane the forest covered surface had begun to resemble the decimated mother planet. Humanity quickly descended into the have’s and the have-nots, already defined by the …
Micro-fiction 072 – Shepherd (Echoes series)
In the far future, the robot shepherd of the last server farm on Planet Earth begins to question his existence… Shepherd It is 3880 of the Common Era and I am the last Robot Shepherd on Earth. There have been others, but they either left with the Star Wanderers of the last hundred years, the Great Escape, or shut themselves …
Micro-fiction 055 – The Meadow by the Pool (Post-Apocalypse series)
A meditation on life and existence a thousand years from now… The Meadow by the Pool I sat by the pool, fishing for souls, scooping them up from the placid waters by the forest. In the bright sunlight through the trees I could see a hazy figure in the meadow, collecting the first daisies and clovers of Spring. The journey …
Micro-fiction 048 – Quantum Loop (Post-Apocalypse series)
They arrived to protect us, but we treated them shamefully. Quantum Loop It had happened very quickly when the Ozone layer across the entire planet collapsed. The fierce heat of the sun melted the polar icecaps, oceans rose and flooded coastal settlements on almost every landmass. Wild fires tore through the townships on lower grounds, in the Americas, in Europe …