Category: Fiction
These are our fictional stories
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Nobody Says Moonquake
For a hundred years, the last footprint on the Moon stayed perfect, and tourists cried in front of it. Then a moonquake rang the valley like a bell, and a young ranger found out why the old ranger never looked at the screen. Read more
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Good Morning, Boys
Every Monday, the Bear sat on his stone at the bottom of the bay and said good morning to the boys. Then a lost Lancaster bomber turned up two hundred meters away, and a rookie diver was told to touch everything. Read more
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Stars Are Not Green
In 1926, someone wrote “green?” on the sleeve of a glass star plate, and someone else crossed it out. A hundred years later, a temp with four days left on her grant finds out who was right, and what green really means. Read more
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The Loudest Man on Fedje
Everyone on Fedje knows Hook. He shouts “Lift it!” at every meeting about the sunken U-boat full of mercury, and on her last night, he shows the new girl from the coast office why. Read more
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The Panel on the Reef
On Nikumaroro, a TV producer finds a shiny panel on the reef and needs it to be Amelia’s plane by Friday. The young observer from Tarawa thinks the rivets look wrong. Read more
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The Speck That Would Not Go Away
At Goddard, Pip has until Monday to dig one stubborn speck out of Roman’s first dark-hole picture. Hutch says to check the ruler before you blame the mirror. Read more
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Roses Keep a Secret
In Essen, Leni has until 8:30 to clear the last man out of a garden colony before a WW2 bomb is defused. But Opa Willi will not leave the roses his papa planted in 1946. Read more
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5 Beautiful Truths Buried Under a Roman Temple
In the Taunus pines north of Frankfurt, Sam marks trees for a timber sale that pays her internship – until diggers find a Mars shrine under the needles, and tourism wants a “Warrior Temple” flyer before the truth is known. Read more
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5 Beautiful Truths Hidden Behind Enemy Lines
The Kailne Front, Part 1: a military science fiction short story and the start of a new serial fiction series. It is the year 3025, and two Kailne commandos, Hops and Bear, are cut off behind enemy lines after the Vilma push on the planet Ostra. They have dying batteries and a voice on the… Read more
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5 Beautiful Truths Hidden in an Asteroid Near Earth
On top of Haleakala, Kai finds a faint new object coming closer than the Moon, and her boss wants it on the news before Friday. But it moves too slowly, and it flashes like a tin can turning in the sun. Read more