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Pieces of Eight, Part II
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25 Most Recent Science Fiction Short Stories

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2012 What the Mayans Didn't Know by russ maggio
2012 Theory ..
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2014 by Terence Russell
Short story I penned sometime back in the 80's..
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2048 by Lee Gimenez
Science fiction short story published by the Cynic Magazine..
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37 Billion, The Crop by . ShyPoet1
The year was 2899 ... ..
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4th Wish by Ed Howdershelt
A beach, a bottle, and a new take on the subject. ..
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86'd in Area 51 (sci fi/horror story) by Malcolm Watts
Was Meyer's imagination too good?..
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A mixed up gen y girl visits the planet Zatoris by Marcus Dino
OMIGOSH THERE'S LIKE 2 SUNS IN THEIR SKY..
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A Beast Named Winter by William Ledbetter
Sometimes perfect isn't better...
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A Cold Morning by William Butler
Mai wakes up in the middle of a snow covered field. She has no memory of who she is, where she is, or the identity of the red haired woman sleeping in her lap...
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View Photo of A Conversation With Web Bug's On Hell Read excerpt from A Conversation With Web Bug's On Hell A Conversation With Web Bug's On Hell by Bradley Fralick
This is a story that will go on my web page, about the Web Bugs I make here in my DOG HOUSE/WORKSHOP/COMPUTER ROOM...
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A Couple Kilos of Plasmite by C Yankovich
Diego Lopez, mining engineer on the planet of Neuworld knew he would not have a good day after the jelly whales started spawning and some normally docile local carnivores went crazy. When he tried to solve the problem of a dead whale on the beach near town, he found out that things could get much wo..
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A Cydonian Mission by Londis Carpenter
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A Day in the Life of Simplicity by Rae Lori
From the Cocktail Reviews site review: A touch of Sci-Fi, anyone? Oh, yes. Being transported to the future is just what the doctor ordered sometimes. Lyn is a cop in a world where everything is monitored. Even your thoughts. Your body mass. Pregnancy is not allowed—unless the governmen..
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A glitter in time by Nancy Dalle
An man who changes his identity often, who moves around who is mysterious. Who is this man, what is he doing here, what does he want...
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View Photo of A Hitchhiker's Guide to our Galaxy Read excerpt from A Hitchhiker's Guide to our Galaxy A Hitchhiker's Guide to our Galaxy by Bradley Fralick
Only the title is similar to the novels by Douglas Adams..
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A Human Touch by Alan Cook
Let's hope the future isn't like this...
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A Human Touch by Sarah Mankowski
A lonely old man takes a new job with unusual co-workers...
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A Message From Audio-4 by Paul Mc Cann
A crack has opened between audio-4 and our world but there is hope ...
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A Problem in Translation by J Erwine
Mankind's first contact with aliens doesn't go as well as they might have hoped when they find they can barely even understand what the aliens are saying, and even the smallest mistake could have grave reprecussions. This is an illustrated short story...
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A Question Of Faith by Dennis Michels
The ancient battle brothers met in the giant hall of the battle barge’s chapel. The Chaplain clad in his terminator power armor poured a goblet of wine for his old friend. “Brother Champion, honor.” The Chaplain toasted. “To the Emperor’s finest leader.” Champion Lazarus returned the toast..
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A Question of Freedom by J.C. Tabler
A small town sheriff in post-apocalyptic America is forced to choose between his duty or his ideals...
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A Safe or Hopeful Future by Lee Gimenez
Science fiction short story published by Nature Magazine..
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A Simple Theft (revised) by Gerald Zollar
A quick in and out, that's what I was told. No one will be there, it is a cakewalk...
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A Singular Solution by J Erwine
Faced with oppression, the humans living on Mars resort to terrorism to get their point across to Earth, finally deciding to drop a singularity into the Earth's core, but Jenkins isn't sure it's the right course of action...
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A Story like no Other by Otilia Tena
a delicate woman among tough warriors in a SciFi story..
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A World for Georgiana by Vasilis Afxentiou
"A World for Georgiana" is set far in the future when sentient plants inhabit the Earth. ..
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Abducted By Aliens by Paul Mc Cann
They came here from a distant planet with a mission to save our world . ..
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Access Denied by Michael Ault
We all have difficulty overcoming our programming.....
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Accidental Meeting by Helen Downey
A young teen meets up with an alien...Fictional...
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Adversary, Fare Thee Well by Martin Ingham
Morgan Asher was frozen in time for a hundred years, trapped in a fantasy simulation by a vindictive sorceress. After finding his place in the future, Morgan returns to a different virtual realm, to confront the woman behind it all, Josie Johansen. This was originally planned as an epilogu..
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Read excerpt from After Mars After Mars by Sara Penrod
A speculative piece on the effects on humans after the first manned Mars mission...
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Alien Machinery by Mike Wilson
Janitor in a local utility building encounters strange new subcontractors, greets them. Then, utters something under his breath, and finds himself in hot water...
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Alien PLague by CJ Vaughn
A teenager has strange, vivid dreams that hint to a possible alien invasion. He can't turn to anyone, even the military, for the aliens could be anyone. That's all I'm tellin'...
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Augustulus by D. Major
AUGUSTULUS Unseasonable winds shift among the buildings. In the library, students sit quietly at long rows of desks. It is the last day of a long weekend, the ideal time to get overdue essays written.     On the floor beside her desk sits a pile of books, into which ..
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Barack Obama, the President. by Jack Kuperman
Does hystory happen this way?..
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Aliens by Ladiladah Inc.
I was born in 1947. In 1974, the aliens landed again on Earth and said "Take us to your Leaders!" No one can do anything about just masses and masses of walking feet. Not armies. Not patriots. Not crime fighters. Louder than the thunder of the Hell's Angels, less obvious than the motors of th..
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Aliens Anonymous by Melissa Swaim
...the beginning of a book about The Grays and the seeds they sow from the Illuminati to the New World Order. Sounds like a party I'm invited to! Don't worry. The Grays told me that they don't exist, so shhh. Close your eyes. Its not for you to see...not just yet...
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All the Charms of Hell by Michael Gibbs
The unnumbered souls in or bound for eternal damnation have but one place to place the blame. Temptation confronts us all, just as strength to resist abides in us all. Can we say that one individual has more strength than another to turn away? I think not. It’s a matter of the heart. ..
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All the Sands of Hellspire by Steven Fisher
The red-orange dust of Hellspire blew into the barracks along with Sergeant "Slam" Ferris. Private Danny May cursed the sergeant and the dust under his breath. Despite the permaplast "bubble" covering Firebase 12 and the double airlock providing entrance and exit, the dirt leaked in, s..
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Read excerpt from Almost Almost by Jennifer Barlow
A science fiction story that originally appeared on the web magazine, 1000 Delights. I sold it to that magazine before the first edition appeared, and myself was not delighted with the site (which turned out to be adults-only, though my story is strictly PG-rated!)..
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Alone by Lee Gimenez
Short story published by Skive Magazine..
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Read excerpt from Alone in a Strange World Alone in a Strange World by Jennifer Park
This is a story of a child who finds herself in an “alternate universe” where she spends forty years of her life. The unfolding events ask the reader to contemplate on what could happen when one inadvertantly visits an unsuspecting “another” world. It is an obvious rip-off of, and a critical comment..
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Along The Rails by Melissa Mendelson
An unknown destination awaits as the train rides the rails of time...
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Already Dead by Victor Farrell
Escape through the mind field! ..
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Ambrosia Is Waiting - Chapter 3 by . ShyPoet1
just having some fun ... (second post) chapter 3..
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Ambrosia Is Waiting - chapter 4 by . ShyPoet1
I may write one more chapter sometime in the near future ... --- I hope U all are enjoying this project as much as I am enjoying writing it!..
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An Arrow for Coyote by Brandon Whitehead
This is an "Alternite Universe" type poem suggested to me long ago, by my grandfather, whom rumor has it had some Cherokee in him...
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An Unfamiliar Element by Chris Parsons
so...i wrote this short story in the summer of 2008 after reading some H.P. Lovecraft. I don't want to give the whole thing away, but....the story's supposed to sort of cryptically/symbolically describe a thunderstorm but never actually mentions the aspects of the storm (i.e. rain, lightning, etc...
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ANCIENT RIGHTS by John Townsend
A field and a strange tale..
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Ancient Visitors FromThe Timeless World by Paul Mc Cann
Strange Beings Journey To Earth Between The Begining Of Time To Our Present ..
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