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Micro-fiction 054 – Polly Hedron (Echo series)

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’ …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …