Category: short story
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The Fifth World
Chosposi the Mongwi turned to the ceramic faced attendant and requested an update. She had just woken from the Sipapu and not all of her mental processes were as sharp as they were before she had gone under nearly ten-thousand cycles ago. The mute automaton replied with a data dump into the terminal in front…
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The Cave
The Aggregate Book One By Conrad Altmann In an attempt to live up to his father’s example, a young man attempts to prove himself by striking out into unfamiliar mountains alone. Far from help, disaster strikes and he flees to the safety of a nearby cave, hoping that it isn’t already occupied.
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The Neighbors
It is a largely recognized universal law that if you are looking for a new place to live, and you find one unoccupied, it’s available. Once you narrow that down to individual species and cultures though, it tends to come with caveats. Some will require you to gain permission from local governments, or from the…
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In On A Comet
a short story By william Altmann They did not want to be noticed, but having come all this way again they wanted another, closer look. Coming closer had its risks, though. Would the rock be up to it? A comet was a perfectly ordinary object to come hurtling into the solar system, swinging around the…
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The Parable of the Snow Shovel
In upstate New York, you see, it snows. A lot. And for a very long time. Especially near the Lake.
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Boys, Dogs & Forests
What is it about a boy, a dog and a forest? When you put them all together, it makes the world go away.
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Cine Sunt Eu?
who am I? By violeta Altmann “Who am I?” – written by an adoptive mom in Cluj, during the first year after finalizing the adoption, to be read as a bedtime story. The book is written in the first person, in the voice of her daughter, in English and Romanian. Through this book she verbalizes…
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Flannel
There once was a scrap of fabric. It lay in a bin of other scraps in a small quilting shop owned by a kind old man.