Tag: Short Story
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Reverence Ep.3: Eerie Wood

“Woah, Sentinel! Steady down, girl!” It was all Hempsty could do to keep the horse and calash on the gravel path and not veer through the trees at the side. He pulled on the reins, stopping the journey once again. He leapt from his seat, and ran over to the spooked animal. Gently, he stroked…
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A Topsy Turvy Tale of Tops and Turves

Pick a straw. Any straw. OK, that one! Take a closer look. It might look better in the light. Oops. Don’t cut the top off! Try again. That’s better! Look at it from a slightly different angle. Now bring in a prop. Try to take the photo as though it’s a fine portrait. Or from…
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Space – There’s a lot of it! (5)

Alnold, you do know your suit has a light? Nebula, you’ve let me walk all the way from the shuttleship to this pyramid ship in gravity enhanced boots, over a slippery and unlevel surface, in complete darkness, and you now tell me I have a light? No I didn’t know. Why would I know that?…
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Reverence Ep.2: Highway Robbery

“Cuddn’t ya pick t’other ‘orse, ‘Empsty?” Gemevere squirmed and fidgeted in her seat inside Lord Molecombe’s best carriage, the one he uses on a Sunday. “It’s pullin’ us o’er to th’edge.” “That isn’t the horse, my cousin. The wheel on the left here is somwhat rickety. I was going to take the calash to the…
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Space – There’s a lot of it! (4)

My name’s Alnold Kahh. For the first time in my entire life, I’m taking part in a rescue mission. The ship I’m travelling the Universe in, the Expansion, has come across a rather large debris field, and in one of the sectors it has detected faint life signs. The Expansion is too big to navigate…