Scimon's published ficlets
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Googe 3
“One shot?” it’s eyes widen and it pouted. Jan’s internal security system started flashing warnings as he debated the questio…
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Googe 2
He found the cat scavenging tech from a slurpy. Jan tried not to look at the blank eyed figure convulsing on the ground as th…
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Googe 1
Jan was drained, his respect was near zero and if he didn’t do something fast he’d be tossed out next time a patroller found …
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Death and Taxes
“Nothing is certain except Death and Taxes.”
John looked up from the his hunched seat at the bar and glared at the looming fi… -
Happy happy
“You look down.”
I looked round the room in shock. I’d thought I was alone but then the annoyingly perky voice had piped up… -
What Oil?
AM: Fem-parent-alpha-parent?
S: Yes honey?
AM: What Oil?
S: Oil? Wow. I haven’t heard that for a while.
AM: History vid spoke… -
No Road
“Stop!”
“What! What?”
“Stop the car.”
“Crap. Wait. Arrgh. Ok… we’re stopped, though I think the guy in the van behind us … -
Dinner
“Where’s the rabbit?”
“What rabbit?”
“The dinner rabbit, the one I got from the butchers this morning. That rabbit.”
“Is it w… -
He who roars
He who roars stalked the great expanse searching for new prey. The green fluff of squeaking had succumbed to his stealthy a…
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Manuel Returns
“Revenge!”
There are times you want to hear a squeaky Spanish accented voice shouting behind you. Like… Well I’m sure ther…
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Joking aside
“Thursday?” Donner blinks, eyes streaming looking for the source of the voice.
“No. Thursssssawday.” Somewhere in the darkne… -
Late night shopping
OK so it’s not the most glamorous of jobs but it pays the rent while I work on my book. Well that’s what I’d always told myse…
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Mind melt
Sometimes I get overwhelmed by all my thoughts. It feels like a million ideas are streaming across my brain at the same time,...
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Yup
“Run that one past me again.”
“Zombies.”
“See that’s what I thought you said. The question I now have is why?”
“Why zombies?”... -
Dirty secrets
“Hello.”
“Look, stop playing silly buggers and open the air lock.”
“Not a problem.”
Have you ever had a moment when you t…
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Code Cat
Soon I was coding away, the familiar purring weight of Gringo on my shoulders. My fingers rattled across the keyboard occasio…
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Cocoa
“Ummf ummf” came the muffled voice from my feet. I looked down into the floppy eared brown eyed face of Cocoa. With a cucumbe…
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Gringo
“Whu… what you want man?” Gringo opened his golden eyes a slit, he’d been on the tequila again last night and he was always…
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Gun
Drew looked at the smoking gun and the figure sprawled in the dirt in front of him. He felt his stomach churning and ground …
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Mum
She held me when I cried.
She helped me learn to walk.
She taught me about life.
And she taught me about people.But today I…
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