Stories tagged “speculative”
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Deadtrees
“Books are for old people.” I said, mustering up my best mean face. “Now give me back my phone.” That old man confiscated my communicator and was trying to get me to agree to read something out of a dusty old deadtree. He may be...
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The Orc
They left it there, the orc beneath the blood soaked blanket. Neither boy dared go near it. They, each of them, ignored one another. Leofwine sat with his back against a tree, staring unfixed into the river. William curled his knees against himself and...
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First Encounters: The Visitor
A corpse fell out of my closet. This is not a metaphor. A human body is lying on the dirty carpet in front of my hall closet. How did it get there? I don’t know. I didn’t put it there and I certainly didn’t kill anybody. Sure, there a...
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California Dreaming
“You got banned from the Grid?” Gracie asked. Tom’s face colored. “Yeah, they’re pretty serious about drugs on the trains.” Gracie smacked him in the arm- hard. “Damn it! How’re we gonna get to an airport...
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The Oldest Truck Driver
I have seen civilizations rise and fall and generations live and die in a blink of my eye When you’ve lived as long as I have, time starts to contract I started as a slave driver then ship’s captain, then truck driver and airplane pilot Always tra...