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Micro-fiction 100 – Machines Discarded II (Post-Apocalypse series)
Continuing from . Past and present churn together as the dark tale of discarded machines opens out to the future of humankind and the long shadow of primordial dread… Machines Discarded. Part Two. T
Micro-fiction 099 – Machines Discarded I (Post-Apocalypse series)
In a world that’s turned against itself, and destroyed all thinking machines Karima stumbles across a robot, and is followed in the dark… Machines Discarded. Part One. Today she discovered a disca
Micro-fiction 098 – Find Me (Echoes series)
A lonely young man who overcomes his debilitating illness by reading, endless reading until one day his perspective is altered radically… Find Me. I first saw the words written in a book inherited f
Micro-fiction 097 – Kingdom of Lies (Post Apocalypse series)
From the far future comes a story within a story, of the dangers of believing without questioning, of lies that become truths… Kingdom of Lies. Some time in the far future there is a great Bazaar th
Micro-fiction 096 – The Green Man (Myths series)
A tale of an ancient spirit, a ruined planet, of loss and grief, but hope renewed in the Green Man... The Green Man. I remember the berry. It has a greenish, red hue. I’m not sure what it is except
Micro-fiction 095 – Obsession (Echoes series)
A dark tale of obsession, psychological terror, a mansion, a sculptor and a curious friend. Obsession. “But he loves me!” Josephine whispered, leaning in to her friend who had travelled up from the
Micro-fiction 094 – Time Now (Echoes series)
Welcome to a tale that plays with relativity, quantum probability and our experience of Time: a moment, a special event when everything changes. Time Now. The time is now. And everything is about to
Micro-fiction 093 – Artificial Intelligence (Robot series)
In a huge white warehouse, the robots have survived the near extinction of humankind. But who are they looking at? And why? Artificial Intelligence. In the late 21st Century robots learned to think
Micro-fiction 092 – Clone (Post-Apocalypse series)
A tale of a post-apocalyptic flight into space as Humanity tries to forge a future, and define it’s own identity… Clone. In the far distant future, after the Last Robot War, humanity splintered across
Micro-fiction 091 – Bodies (Echoes series)
Two bodies, two graves, the past and the present, the new and the ancient, a tale of ritual, renewal and uncertainty… Bodies. Every year, at this time, I return to this beautiful, painful place. The c