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Stephen Dedman

Coup de Grace

Published Mar 28, 2021 · 4,198 words (16 minutes) · 73 views

Humor Satire Science Fiction Alternative history Beatles parallel world body modification religion nanotechnology guns

Maybe electing a young Pope with a sense of humour was a mistake. Then again, maybe not.

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Taken from the top of the Vatican, on a vacation in Rome. I was blown away by the history, beauty, and majesty of this city, and this image captures all of these characteristics well.

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Deborah J. Ross

Jaydium, Chapter 17

Published Mar 26, 2021 · 2,486 words (10 minutes) · 43 views

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Far in the future, an interplanetary civil conflict has ground to an uneasy halt. Kithri, abandoned on a desolate mining planet, meets Eril, shell-shocked pilot. A freak accident sends them back to a time when their desert world was lush and green, when an alien civilization stands on the brink of a war of total destruction. They must choose to remain outside the conflict or to stand up for what they believe.

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Deborah J. Ross

Jaydium, Chapter 16

Published Mar 26, 2021 · 2,444 words (9 minutes) · 75 views

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Far in the future, an interplanetary civil conflict has ground to an uneasy halt. Kithri, abandoned on a desolate mining planet, meets Eril, shell-shocked pilot. A freak accident sends them back to a time when their desert world was lush and green, when an alien civilization stands on the brink of a war of total destruction. They must choose to remain outside the conflict or to stand up for what they believe.

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Deborah J. Ross

Jaydium, Chapter 15

Published Mar 26, 2021 · 2,522 words (10 minutes) · 68 views

Science Fiction time travel strong women characters romantic science fiction weird aliens first contact anti-war science fiction

Far in the future, an interplanetary civil conflict has ground to an uneasy halt. Kithri, abandoned on a desolate mining planet, meets Eril, shell-shocked pilot. A freak accident sends them back to a time when their desert world was lush and green, when an alien civilization stands on the brink of a war of total destruction. They must choose to remain outside the conflict or to stand up for what they believe.

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Tabatha Wood

All The Laird's Men

Published Mar 23, 2021 · 3,095 words (12 minutes) · 102 views

Horror Science Fiction

Corporal Hopkins just wants to go home. After many years serving with the Laird’s Men, he deserves his freedom. But while the long war that fractured New Britain may be over, Raiders in the Scottish forests still pose a deadly threat. Charged with dismantling a roving horde, Hopkins and his elite unit are outnumbered and woefully unprepared for the real horror that awaits them. From the shadowy depths of the great Loch Ness, an ancient evil is rising.

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Person wearing military uniform laying down and aiming an airsoft rifle

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Jenny Rae Rappaport

The Sweetness at the End

Published Mar 20, 2021 · 2,579 words (10 minutes) · 107 views

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When Carolina's family is shattered in a terrible accident, even she's not sure that she can put the pieces back together again.

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James Van Pelt

The Ice Cream Man

Published Mar 13, 2021 · 5,342 words (20 minutes) · 1 like · 116 views

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Sequel to the Nebula finalist short story, "The Last of the O-Forms." Forty years after no creature born with a vertebra looks like its parents, the last of the aging (and vanishing) human race strives to make its way in a mutated world.

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