Science fiction

04 - The Arrest (2)

Chapter 4: The Arrest (Cont.) The cell was small---perhaps three meters by two meters, though it was difficult to judge without reference points. The...

04 - The Arrest (1)

Chapter 4: The Arrest Three months after Peter vanished, Arthur noticed that his hands had stopped shaking. He noticed it during the Two Minutes Hate...

The Sheep Are (Were?) Asleep! by Alfred N.Muggins

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19/12/25 So how was it that after years of study and education that young Americans grew up to be the sheep who grazed upon the American Dream, a...
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Future-Time Travel

We all know time travel is inherently impossible since it inevitably it leads to contradiction, such as going back into time and assassinating...

03 - Peter Harmon (2)

Chapter 3: Peter Harmon (Cont.) The photograph changed things. Not visibly. Arthur went to work. He spoke his corrections. He screamed during the Two...
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03 - Peter Harmon (1)

Chapter 3: Peter Harmon Peter Harmon worked in the Historical Archives section, three floors below the Records Department. Arthur had known him for...
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Gold cherry

Please Hold

When the world ends, humanity will be dangling by a rope it invented. In the late 21 st Century, technology advanced with blinding speed, outpacing...
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02 - The Speakwrite (2)

Chapter 2: The Speakwrite (Cont.) The next day, Tillotson's desk was empty. Arthur noticed it when he arrived at the Records Department---the cubicle...

02 - The Speakwrite (1)

Chapter 2: The Speakwrite The speed regulator dial had been loose for three months. Arthur had learned to work around it---a gentle pressure with his...

01 - The Two Minutes (2)

Chapter 1: The Two Minutes (Cont.) Victory Mansions was seven flights of stairs with a lift that had not worked in anyone's memory. The sign on the...