tekisui's published ficlets
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History To Legend To Myth To Forgotten
Cearlah sat with his feet up on the control desk, reviewing the survey results. On the monitors, the blue-green planet wreath…
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Easy Money
“Earth.” Krantz spat. “What a toilet.”
“Watch it. That’s home you’re talkin’ ‘bout.”
Krantz shifted his weight to lean on the… -
Only As Real As Your Fear, Nothing More Than What You Make It
“Son, are you sure you really wanna do that?”
The tech checked his clip board, as if he didn’t really believe someone could b… -
There Is Always One That Wants To Be Just One
“Journal Entry 24 Neauvebre
This will be my final entry. I will no longer record my thoughts and reactions, as I have decide… -
Autumn Redeemer, Thy Day Cometh
Saul grumbled and rolled over. The clock blinked 3:34. Wasn’t it Bradbury that said this was the low tide, the ebb time for t…
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Heartbreak Like Matchsticks, Pain Like Candy
There was Meghan, Angela, Cortney, Jennifer, Ashleigh, Katie, Nicole, Amy. Blonde and brunette and blonde again and again. Fo…
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How Small Is The Earth To He Who Looks From Heaven
It was referred to as a “Category 6 Existence Failure”, and not further elaborated upon. Mancove had disappeared right in fro…
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Wreathed In Light, The Void Transcends
“I’m lagging in the middle..”
In her voice there was a frustration with failure to understand the cause of the problem.
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Between Storms The Stillness Hangs Heavily, Like Waiting
There was a spark.
Fire.
The apes died out anyway.
200 million years passed.The rockets came, scorching the earth black and…
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We Were Not Ready, These Other Worlds
It was like King’s Captain Trips. Or Crichton’s Andromeda Strain. Or the historic Black Plague. There are no humans left. Non…
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The Green Fields Of Endless June
We ran, as we did everywhere. Across the fields, down the dusty roads of our childhood, through the starry dome of royal nigh…
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Transport
Beccan purred, tail twitching. Ganymede loomed in the window, sparkling with an infinite number of pinpoints of color, lights…
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Requiem
Catalogs. Shelves stretching into the darkness. Aisles both ways, under flickering glow-pads, extend for kilometers. The roof…
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Interlude For Requisition
Emily sat, crosslegged on the floor next to me. Somewhere in the background, Trent terrorized the cat. It could hide under th…
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Fade To White
The sun beat down like a hammer, taxing my glare-blind eyes. The desert stretched to the sky in all directions, flattened and…
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3. Shadowfax
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The screen glowed dimly in the warehouse, boxes draped in greys and blues. Cordero adjusted the jack at the base of his sp… -
2. Reversion
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Firmware flashbake always felt like an icebath. Versionleak washed over her nervous system and there was a flash of blank … -
1. Juxtaposition
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The gun was cold in Donovan’s mouth, and he decided he’d rather live unplugged than put up with this kind of treatment. He…
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