Tag: short story
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Signs of life: the last voyage
She caught my attention because she was so there: standing tall with her arms folded in front of her chest and her defiant gaze that seemed to say to everyone around her: ‘I dare you, I dare you to say something about it, I dare you to assume; dare to conclude, to judge’. He was…
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Signs of life 4: Fuzz
“No!” Meena, the eldest of the two daughters said with an indignant expression on her face when her parents proposed to go to the market fair. Eve, the youngest, fell into an uncomfortable silence squeezing a plushie against her chest. She did not dare to go against her older sisters opinion, yet she feared her…
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When the caged bird sings..
It was perhaps not the first order the emperor Armadius gave, but the order to capture the bird was among the first when he ascended the throne. It was the witch Najeste who caught the bird with a fine net and put the petite colorful bird in a golden cage, which was then placed on…
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Mr Perfect
Sarah sat at her favorite table in that little Italian restaurant on the corner of Sixth Street and Main when Mr Perfect walked in. Of course, he did not wear a tag that said he was Mr Perfect, but she knew he was the moment she saw him. He was slender and dressed in a…
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They are gods
. After delivering his speech on outsourcing, the head of the IT department made a gesture as if to fold some papers in his hands, but he had none at the moment, as his department had been committed to substantial cost savings by becoming a real paperless office. The handful of people that were with…
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Perfect Isolation
None of the employees gathered in the conference room had ever seen Lars Sunden in the flesh. And even in this presentation, displayed on a huge screen, the head of the informational technology department remained a vague figure wearing a white shirt and a tie. He was only visible in the corner of the huge…
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Capricorn Two
The red dust took some time to settle after they landed but that did not dampen their excitement. “Who goes first?” Tomi voiced their question.. Mission control had told them who would go first, but in the face of history, far off Earth had no say. Marchand stepped forward, but Indra tripped him. The crew…
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Men!
“Let’s ask the woman in our midst.” His Most Divine Emperor Maximilian the third said. The gathered nobles of the realm, fitted in their shiniest armors adorned with silver and gold, turned their gazes towards her. Eveline, envoy of the empress-mother, looked at the princess Isobel, who was laying at the feet of the emperor.…
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In memoriam
“So you finally set yourself to it?” His neighbors voice rumbled. He was a big fellow, with a large beard. He was the kind that roared when he laughed or when he downed too many beers at the pub down the road. James looked up and took in the solid shape that loomed over the…
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