The whole place seemed plagued by some kind of weird Doppler effect — you could whisper in a lover’s ear and it might sound like you were half a room away; that was why he had come here by himself. He liked to work in silence anyway, and in a place like this precautions were [...]
Virago Part 1
She looked like a killer; well, if you had fantasies about scantily clad amazons with guns strapped all over them she looked like a killer. It was true that the outfit she was wearing was not in any way practical, but then that was the intention. The servants of The Sand had not had their [...]
Driftbaby Part 1
Driftbaby woke, eyelids fluttering to seduce the dawn, radio alarm talking in someone else’s voice saying end of the world is nigh. Aniseed re-stirs. Today is going to be humid with minimal cloud cover, pollen count high, pollution count double yesterday. She popped the ACE tablet in her mouth and waited for it to heat [...]
Downpour Part 1
The rain came unexpectedly — no forecast, no satellite imagery, nothing. Most of the roads in the area were impassable and some of the homes of the citizens there were under threat. Freak weather conditions is what everyone chose to call it, afraid to say that it might not be natural — afraid of the [...]
Clock Winder Part 1
Thin fingers with nicotine yellow nails extracted the fob watch from the pocket on its long shiny silver chain; he pulled the winder so it clicked once and then twice. It was a strange artefact, appearing as it did both ancient and somehow born of future dreams. It was not so much an anachronism as [...]
All Flesh Is Grass: God Simplex Bringing You Salvation
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Dead Hours Radio
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