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Wake Up!

Wake Up!

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Steve wakes up in a hotel room with no memory of how he got there. But there's more trouble ahead. Just a quick short story, because I had nothing better to do.…

Tenebris Galaxia

Tenebris Galaxia

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January '24 SciFi challenge. James is about to live a life-long dream, fly off to explore a distant galaxy. He understands the dangers, but does he believe they're real?…

The Quest of Qarukkin Minninsha

The Quest of Qarukkin Minninsha

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SciFi December 2023 Challenge. The title is the prompt.…

Teacher's Pet

Teacher's Pet

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SciFi November Challenge. My Alien Teacher. The challenge: what if your teacher was an alien.…

The Cuckoo's Egg

The Cuckoo's Egg

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This was meant to be an entry in the SciFi Challenge, but once again, I got drawn into medical nonsense and missed the deadline. I've decided I like it though, so here it is.…

Sinkhole

Sinkhole

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This is my entry for the OCN 2023.Dan had never been to the Adirondacks and thought it was time he remedied that situation. The Adirondack Railroad just felt like the proper way to do it. An avid photographer, he filled his memory cards with images of mountain lakes and woodland wild life. A newly formed, large sinkhole attracts his attention and he takes copious pics. Back home ,reviewing the pics with his girlfriend, the two are shocked at what they find. Is that a dead body? And what are they doing with it? The pair must now return to the mountain village to slake their curiosity.…

ADE (Automated Digital Entity)

ADE (Automated Digital Entity)

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January 2023 SciFi Challenge. A story about the future of Artificial Intelligence. The Life-Search Project had been unsuccessful for over a hundred years. But now, a signal! Success?…

The Child of d'Dahjlonica

The Child of d'Dahjlonica

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December'22 SciFi Challenge. Once again, the title is the prompt. Winner in the Alt-U profile. s'Stahltonis and d'Doretta watch as the volcanic rivers of fire wind their way down the mountainside, toward their village. Will they be spared, or driven from their home? Only the Gods know for sure.…

Memories

Memories

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Therapy. Right? Anxiety attacks have been keeping me awake at night. When I do sleep, disturbing images swim around me like sharks in a feeding frenzy. I have to make sense of this, but can the therapist actually help? Only time will tell.Based on a true(?) story.…

After-Party

After-Party

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The party was crazy! So crazy I can't remember half of what I did. So where am I this morning and who is the stunning girl in the next room. SciFi October'22 Challenge. Use these 5 words: Blast, Present, Music, Bucket, and Moon.Update: 2nd place in the challenge!…

Zombie Walk

Zombie Walk

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Halloween Vault 2022 - Prompt 12: You and your three friends are having a great time trick or treating on Halloween, until you realize that there are now five of you.…

Cargo

Cargo

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The Puddled Jumper is travelling across intergalactic space to deliver a hold full of fascinating little creatures as exotic pets. But jumping out of time to get to their destination has consequences the crew didn't see coming.Update: 1st place in Sept'22 SciFi Challenge! Thanks to everyone who read, voted or judged.…

Coffee Anyone?

Coffee Anyone?

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Coffee Conundrum. The prompt: After hearing the best reviews about a certain coffee shop, you decide to pay the cafe a visit and order a drink. When you get your beverage, you find your name scribbled on the side of the cup, although you didn't tell them your name in the first place.…

DNA

DNA

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Having been diagnosed with cancer twice now, mortality has been on my mind lately. I started writingthis in 2018, but just got around to finishing it. DNA, a search for immortality.…

Suspicion

Suspicion

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Coffee Community: It's a Mystery. They woke me up at 2am. Said they needed to talk to me. So I accompanied them to Headquarters where, well, it's a mystery I didn't have any answers to.…

Different

Different

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April 2022 SciFi Challenge. Prompt: I left the Earth to follow my dreams. What I found was - different.…

Over the Rainbow

Over the Rainbow

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This started as an entry for the Open Novella Contest, 2022. Unfortunately, I was having some medical difficulties (which I won't bore you with) and felt I needed to drop out after the first deadline.Shortly after taking up the story again, I realized that I was writing the same characters as those in my previous entry (ONC 2020), Thirteen Points of Light. So I did some quick editing and continued the story of Sarah and her box of magic matches.I'm trying really hard to make this a stand-alone story, but because I know the original story so well, I'm not entirely sure this one stands by itself. If you haven't yet, you may want to start with Thirteen Points and read them together as a single story.The story (this time around): Jared and Crystal's relationship is getting rocky. Just how rocky? They'll find out when Sarah enters their lives with her stories of travels through time and space, dreams, nightmares and her desire to get home.Please, enjoy.…

The End

The End

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An old nemesis returns to claim what was once theirs. Us.…

Knucklehead

Knucklehead

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When I saw the biker the first time, I was impressed by the classic Harley Knucklehead he rode. But as I saw him again and again, I began to realize there was something unusual about him. Not just his unusual bike, something more, something not right. I had to chase him down, figure out what it was. It was driving me crazy. Too late I realized, I should have left well enough alone.Knucklehead: Noun, A Harley Davidson motorcycle engine (or motorcycle) manufactured from 1937 to 1947. So named because of the distinctive shape of the cylinder head covers.Adjective, a stupid person, a dumbell. Often will continue a course of action long after it becomes apparent that the course is self-destructive.…