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 049 – Discoveries (Post-Apocalypse series)
Discoveries at two ends of history and civilisation determine very similar futures. A journey into space takes a unexpected turn. Discoveries 2040 saw the first mission to the solar system around Kepler 10, the furthest journey for any team of astronauts in the history, as much as it was understood, of human space exploration. A small crew, on the tiny …
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 …
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. …