Stories tagged sci-fi

The Bombshell

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He put Claudine in the barn. This caused him some pain—he’d have preferred for her to be able to stay with him in the house. His mother and father, were very strict Lutherans and insisted on marriage before ‘bunking together’.

Heirlooms, an excerpt

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She was the only girl born on January 16th, 1986 in Pennsylvania. A local celebrity by the time she was one hour old. Somewhere there is grainy footage from a local network affiliate of bemused newscasters rushing to cover the story first, their belly fu

Empire America

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Empire America The year is 1929, New York City. Two hundred years ago the American Revolution failed, its founding fathers put on trial and executed for crimes against the crown. Now, as the Great World War rages without end, the American colonies of G

Downloaded Cheats

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You are my intergalactic princess / The most beautiful in twelve systems

EMPTY

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The world was tired and thin. Winding down, it had no interest -- no patience -- for Joe Foxwood, the last man on earth; and Joe knew it.

The Harrisburg

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“Gliese Base Twelve, come in. Gliese Base Twelve, this is the Harrisburg. We have a level five emergency. Requesting immediate assistance.”

Moon Boy's Love

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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.

Alpha Three

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Jerry turned away from the window to face the box on wheels. Its camera would scan his face, looking for the answers.

The Abolitionist: A Science-Fiction Christmas Story

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The rows of orange trees below were guarded from insects by peacocks—thousands of them—and from apopolian intruders by cCougars. The cCougars were not terribly different from regular cougars, but they were certainly a deterrent to hungry outsiders. Her

The heart of Space

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Squinting, I almost believed I could make out strange alien shapes rustling behind the stars or clinging to the rings of immense, far-away planets like vines off a tree's branches.

gravelortian part 1

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our house gives him a cold again

gravelortian part 8

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When I come to we are by the lake

gravelortian part 9

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Unhook the newsfeed

gravelortian part 10

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We have been down here before

gravelortian part 12

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He said I was doing it all wrong Opened up his ghastly mouth