Standalone Stories
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Graceful Degradation
In a world where memories are forced to fade, Jeremy just wants to honor his dead wife. Doing so will mean evading detection of a surveillance state.
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The Mating Rituals of Clouds
If clouds have ever seemed ominous to you, then this is your story.
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Romeo’s Remorse
Shakespeare wrote many great stories, but in the case of Romeo and Juliet, he seems to have left out one important scene: Romeo’s time in exile. So I’ve taken it upon myself to fill that gap, as a lonely Romeo decries his missing love … Rosaline?
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Zeus, Beheld
Zeus took his pantheon of Gods on a journey around the galaxy. He promised they’d only be gone for five years, no longer. Zeus doesn’t understand time dilation. The world they’ve come back to is not the one they left.
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Last Breath Day
Every day is the same: we get up, we work hard, one or two of us die. It’ll be my turn soon enough. We call it Last Breath Day.
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Dee, for the Win
Sixteen and stuck living in a dead-end town, with a dead-end job, it’s easy to decide to play dangerous games. Generations come and generations go. No one really escapes. So why not play slaughter ball, an underwater race that’s likely to kill you?
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Sylvester, Down
The Sylvester is being attacked by pirates on the far side of the Moon. The Sylvester’s fate depends on the owner’s spoiled man-child of a son and his bickering friends.
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The Portal
The hardest part of a sibling rivalry is where to hide the bodies.
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End of the Line
Joachim gave his employer 20 hard years of working the line. Now he’s being ‘retired’ by a robot. What should be a happy transition is anything but. Joachim’s future, and even his family may not survive this transition to ‘utopia.’
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Death vs Taxes
The Grim Reaper has been summoned by many a foolish person over the course of history. But this summons, from the IRS, feels… different.
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NOTA BENE:
Please note that most of these stories appear in various story bundles and the complete collection, The Maiden Voyage of Novyy Mir.