Posts Tagged ‘novelet’

A Different Blessing

Saturday, December 1st, 2012

by Milton Davis

The approach was critical.  Too close and they would be attacked. Too far and they would be ignored.  In the end it was a subjective decision, one that took not only skill but experience. Edward was the only one of their group that possessed both. He’d been to Atlanta and was familiar with which highways and roads were passable.  It helped that Edward possessed the Gift, but that was an advantage that no one knew, not even the terminally ill donors he considered family.

“Are you sure we’re close enough?” Ginger asked. She coughed through her face cloth, her eyes tight and tearful.

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The Convert

Monday, August 1st, 2011

by Eric Landreneau

Brother Crisanto stared up into Ennim’s sky. Engaging his optical augments, he could make out the form of the Mobile Gateway as it moved into a stable orbit. Soon the starship would begin the slow dance of unpacking its mammoth components and re-configuring itself into a wormhole generator.

An indicator buzzed in the back of his mind; the new arrival had transmitted a communication packet to his ship. For the first time in a decade, his inbox was full. Cycling his eyes back to natural sight, Crisanto blinked and sighed. Time to begin his farewells.

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Beatitude

Monday, August 1st, 2011

A story from the Rescue Sisters Universe
created by Robert and Karina Fabian
by Fred Warren

Monica was flying.

She swooped and spun through the intricate lattice, gravity a faint tug far too weak to hinder the grace and precision of her aerial dance.

As she flew, she prayed the Magnificat, the ancient words keeping time with her movement, guiding each turn, drawing her through every tiny opening like thread through the eye of a needle.

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OF ALL THINGS, SEEN AND UNSEEN

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

asteroidsA story from the Rescue Sisters Universe
created by Robert and Karina Fabian
by Fred Warren

There was light.

There was a roaring, swirling sound in her ears.

There was pain. The right side of her body was on fire, and her arm throbbed a drumbeat in time with her pulse.

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THE BOTTLED CITY

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

saharanduststormby Meghann McVey

“I want to begin this meeting with an apology for its unusual timing.” Despite the chilled air in the Geology Academy’s basement auditorium, Darren Fremor mopped at his forehead with a shaking hand. “Earlier this afternoon, the Bottled City’s Operations department informed Chancellor Gaines that the south wall collapsed.”

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