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The Time Cop Chronicles

The Time Cop Chronicles

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When time travel becomes a reality a special unit is created to resolve the long list of unsolved crimes dating back half a century. This is from the chronicles of Marshall Stone- Timecop.…

Colonization Protocols

Colonization Protocols

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An advance team is sent to Tau Ceti Prime to lay the groundwork for a large colony from Earth. Redlands Inc. has been sending Germination Capsules for over 70 years to terraform it into the image of Earth. It was supposed to become a Garden of Eden, overflowing with flora and fauna. It was supposed to be an easy assignment for a crew of seasoned Germinators. But Tau Ceti Prime was a unique case and Andros Ziko was about to find out how unique.…

Deliverance

Deliverance

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Captain Job Trace leads a team on a space rescue mission that goes terribly wrong and becomes a fight for survival.…

Outpost 1

Outpost 1

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Outpost One was never a dull place. But for Joseph Snow and his crew a routine delivery run takes them down an unexpectedly twisted adventure against a mercenary rebel faction on Mars.…

Titan- Prison Planet

Titan- Prison Planet

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Bridge did a lot of things he's not proud of during the war. But the one thing he didn't do is exactly what he was found guilty of. He's sentenced to 20 years of forced labor on a distant moon of Saturn. Despite everything he adjusts and knows he's finally found a place he can call home. He's even found the love of his life who happens to be a female clone. But his sentence is coming to an end and he's told he has to leave it all behind on Titan- the prison planet.…

The Senior Discount

The Senior Discount

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A gathering of old friends in different scenarios in a time and place slightly beyond our own. Sit back and enjoy snippets of life from the rocking chairs gathered round the USTAFS Senior center.…

Mech Life

Mech Life

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Recollections of an Android who's life has spanned 3 generations of the Milner family.…

The Orderly Diary

The Orderly Diary

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Dean La Platte was hired as a caretaker for Colonel Christian Moore. A man who became exposed to a biological agent whose source and effect are unknown.…

Riley's Dreams

Riley's Dreams

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Riley's life was simple and predictable up until the day he got a writing assignment in History. On that day his life was touched supernaturally and Riley's eyes were opened for the very first time.…

A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time

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My entry in the XPRIZE short story contest about a passenger who boards a flight from Tokyo to San Francisco. During the flight a wrinkle in time causes the plane to jump 20 years ahead. This is one passenger's story.…

The Present

The Present

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It's Christmas and as the bells are ringing and the children singing one man finds he has so little to rejoice over. He is overcome by his regrets. .…

Journey of the Inconceivable
The Yeti Hunter

The Yeti Hunter

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I was given a special invitation from the Blacklist Hunters Club Unlimited. I knew when I joined that it was the only organization that could even begin to fill my special needs. You see I'm a hunter. Not your everyday garden variety who can be satisfied with a deer or a bear skin rug. Nope all that was childplay to me. My appetite had grown to monstrous proportions. Even the likes of White Tigers and Rhinos no longer satisfied my needs. There was one creature that I wanted to bag. It was so rare that no one had ever captured nor killed one. This is the reason I paid BHCU a cool $4 Million just to have one shot at bagging this creature. What creature could possibly be worth that much you ask? Why the Legendary Yeti of course!…

Aurora Borealis

Aurora Borealis

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A group of friends on a cruise to Alaska find themselves transported in time. Their vacation has taken on a completely new dimension that they are helpless to change. Or so they think.…

The Basement

The Basement

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Barstow used to be a sleepy little desert town. It became famous one Halloween night when we received a 'gift' from space.A story written for scikick's Halloween Contest which was limited to 500 words.I hope you enjoy the short story.…

Arthur 195- A Cybernetic Mind gone astray

Arthur 195- A Cybernetic Mind gone astray

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Ron March struggles with the notion that androids are people too. Each day he is confronted by one in particular -Arthur 195 a common worker droid in his factory. Arthur is starting to become a little too human in all the wrong ways.…