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Published Mar 29, 2021 · 107 words (1 minute) · 103 views
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Publication link for a sci-fi/cyberpunk short if such things should tickle your interest.
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12:20 Bus From the Basics
Published Jan 31, 2021 · 937 words (4 minutes) · 190 views
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A young woman who’s just received her first universal basic income payment tries to escape the neighborhood — and life — she grew up in.
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Inertia
Published Sep 14, 2020 · 864 words (4 minutes) · 302 views
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When a couple is paired off in an intergalactic project, they must face an unexpected disaster together.
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Littered with Ellipses...
Updated Aug 17, 2020 · 28,089 words (103 minutes) · 2069 views
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He wasn't supposed to care. He wasn't built to do so. But when a deepspace maintenance worker rescues children from an accident he gains citizenship and makes the people who care for him question how they (or anyone) care for themselves.
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Indispensable
Published Aug 13, 2020 · 1,007 words (4 minutes) · 361 views
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An office worker has to decide whether to allow her company to create an AI version of her to replace her.
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Losing Face
Published Mar 4, 2020 · 2,999 words (11 minutes) · 1 like · 726 views
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This funny little SF short story, set in the same Universe and at the same time as my debut novel, ALWAYS GREENER, asks the question: We all know revolutions can start with a bang. But can they also start with a moustache?
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I'm Sorry I Couldn't Make it True
Published Feb 11, 2020 · 1,983 words (8 minutes) · 1 like · 555 views
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A teen uses her brother’s time travel machine to try to “fix” her one big regret.
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Questions Posed in an Alien Tongue
Published Jan 15, 2020 · 1,286 words (5 minutes) · 4 likes · 923 views
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At age five, she survived a crash landing on an alien planet. At age twenty, she's charged with learning what brought her ship here. But the answers may permanently change her relationship with her keepers—or are they her captors?
Wendy Nikel, tea aficionado and flash fiction expert, has published dozens of short stories in venues such as Nature Futures, Daily Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online. Her time travel novella, THE CONTINUUM, is now available from World Weaver Press.
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Building an Elephant
Published Mar 26, 2019 · 7,584 words (28 minutes) · 1 like · 794 views
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When the neighbors show off their off-the-lot new elephant for everyone to see, Mike's dad decides to build his own out of spare parts. Getting it to work might mean Mike betrays himself and the neighbors' trust. [Building an Elephant was originally published by Adirondack Review: http://adirondackreview.homestead.com/ It won the Fulton Prize for Fiction.]
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Cerise Sky Memories
Published Feb 28, 2019 · 953 words (4 minutes) · 1 like · 717 views
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A genetically engineered human discovers some of her implanted memories are real and goes in search of the person who gave them to her.
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