The Story Today's 101, Cosmic , a murder mystery that spans the whole of space and time, in only 101 words, is guesting over at my oth...

Dark, tenebrous things burst forth from the cracked ground. She drew her twin pistols, Regret and Recompense, and began firing. She had unle...

Clouds drift over the moon. Ellen feels the cold metal of a gun barrel pressed to the back of her head. Her heart stops and the chill spread...

I am here, against intergalactic law, because important, anonymous people grew tired of waiting. So the galaxies turn. The Darkling’s tower ...

He admired his engineered body. He was success, perfection; he was to be the template for the new breed. Humanity had lost its way, stepped ...

“Ah ha! Found it!” Doc Carmine brandished the template with blue-stained fingers. He returned to his workbench and pressed his head to the g...

My mind is in pieces. They tell me that with every jump I left a part of myself behind. They tell me it’s gone forever, but I’ve had time to...

Rose remembered how grandmother’s magic shimmered and shivered around them. It smelt acrid and sweet, like burning cupcakes; felt like hot s...

He turns the death garland over in gnarled hands. A wreath of bones, and things resembling bones; fragments of animal, man and machine. Live...

Madame Fox cries tears of black tar. She is the heartbreak that is the last thing ex-lovers share. She is the dead rose, caught in the middl...

Jeremy leaned against the rough brick wall of the clothes shop at the corner of Davey Place and Castle Street. He couldn’t remember if the s...

I denounce my body. Is the first commandment. You are but fertile ground for the red plague: let it inside you, let it become you. I denounc...

Tied down with burning sheets. Her cool hands are excruciating relief; soft flutters of calm; gentle bulwarks against the storm I can feel s...

Leaves swirl around her. She becomes the centre of the eddying wind, the sudden focus of the world. No longer just a passing stranger, she i...

Ansel took a bite of lamb. He savoured the salty burst of juices and smiled at the crackle of delicate bones between his teeth – the sound r...

Wired. Silken strings throb beneath his skin, uplifting. He takes his first steps, tentative, a newborn foal. Step, step. Steady, step, step...

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