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Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 13
I am filled with hatred. And the thrill of impeccable timing. I couldn’t have planned Aunty Laura’s reckoning better, though the moment she stole the...
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Like Glass
Above the library rooftop terrace, the sky was dull and flat—the kind of moody white-grey of clouds not quite ready to cry, just heavy with the...
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Sensing A New Wonder
Sensing A New Wonder By Paul McCann Jenny’s first real experience of the Emperor and his enchanted garden came when she was bringing an apple tart...
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Pyre Bits
I lay down slow, my bones like wax— and wish you’d lay yours beside me, in the fire pit. Flame would claim us, erase our tracks— while strangers sing...
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This winter
Come home this winter I miss you dearly Come back for a dinner No need to be yearly Dust fills the room Where you left in a hurry The glass still...
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Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 12
Nash stared through the one-way glass at James McAlister as the roast beef sandwich he’d wolfed down for lunch refused to settle behind his ribs. The...
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Microphones
It used to be that I’d only visit Isolde Terrace for a film on a Friday evening. But I’d started going round on Mondays too, and on Wednesdays and...
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Seventh Place
The horse’s neon hooves hammered against the glass track like gunfire. We tore above a sea of stars. The massive crowd was a blur, a rolling roar...
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Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 11.
The isolation ward, set up as an emergency ICU, was too bright. Always bright, an internal room without windows, compensating for the lack of...
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Food Chains and Kafka
"Oh, this is the life!" said Campyler. "Brilliant isn't it? Nothing like a piece of dying Homosapien" replied Crypto. "Yes. Ever since they broke out...
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