Susan Holder is terrific's published ficlets
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Story 14

He took her into the woods and showed her all the wonders of nature that day. They talked of birds and creeks, trees and book…
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story 13

Josh knew she would go in two days.. Soon she would be an automaton the same as the others.
Josh filtered through the lette…
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story 12

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Story 11

It had been the ‘bots’ on that fateful day that had him plummeting to the bottom of a river to escape and he had seen the ‘bo…
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story 10

“They will find out about you.. about us.. if you continue this friendship.”, his father warned.
Josh flicked through the le…
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Story 9

Children were given connects at 10 which allowed the computers direct access to the child’s brain. Politics had always had a …
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Story 8

Things got more difficult as she got closer to 10, the age of teaching. Josh’s father had found out about their friendship an…
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Story 7

The first letter from her fell from his weathered hand to land on the floor at his feet. It seemed so fragile there, a taste …
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Story 6

It was a few days later that the desire to talk with his playmate overcame his sense of how close he had come to death and he…
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Story 5

It was as though he had suddenly become the deer rather than the archer and, feeling that fear, he knew he had to move now. C…
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Story 4

The next week had been one of delight and torment for Josh. The conversations with the little girl had been ones of explorati…
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story 3

“Who are you?”, she had asked in a calm manner.
Josh had been surprised with that, as his heart was racing a million miles a…
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story 2

Letters drifted from the pile, some read carefully, some falling like crisp dying leaves to the floor. He remembered when eac…
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A story
Josh slowly approached the cabin. Snow hugged the shadows, remnants of the last cold winter. Trees surrounded the building, c…
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Home at last - and asleep

Jocinda looked from the mice to the fish, then turned toward the ladder in the corner of the room and made her way up out of …
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Origin of the cookie

“And let me guess.. ”, Jocinda stated, sarcasm dripping from every word, “the Florians see this huge planet of milk and, bein…
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Where the cookie came from

“You passed them?”, Jocinda asked, trying to get the mice back on track.
“Yes.”, said Flandip. “You see, we used a gas-power…
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still working on it.. :)

Tobin and Flandip shook their heads slowly.
“Jocinda, you are not thinking in context of 5 billion years… on a planet… ...
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a life found?

She lay looking at the ceiling of her room. Wallpaper, as old as she was and gradually abandoning the wall, hung down in stra…
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resurrection of a beloved man

Connie Chung: I am sensing a recurring motif here involving your crucifixion. Is there something you want to talk about?
Jes…