Category: Writing
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The Causality Switch
Commander Pike clambered from her bunk. Weary and blurry eyed, she felt the cold metal grate against her naked feet. As she stood up, she could already feel that the artificial gravity was on the blink again. At least ten percent weaker than it should be. She reached for the water hose and took a…
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It’s Not Brain Surgery
Harry finally made his mind up. The heat was too much, and there wasn’t a single waft of a draught coming through the wide open window. And all he’d done for the past two hours was toss and turn and tell his brain to shut up. It was heckling him with imaginary arguments with friends,…
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The Water Realisation
Rosie had never liked going in the water, not even as a baby. As she grew up, all through the terrible twos, she kicked and screamed whenever she had a bath. The tantrums subsided a bit, but never really went away as she grew older, always protesting and moaning about washing, or showering. She even…
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The Big Switch Off
There wasn’t really a giant plug and a massive socket. We knew that. But it provided a nice visual metaphor on the day of the Big Switch Off. The Prime Minister, looking more and more like a Quentin Blake drawing, limbs bent at obtuse angles, pulled the giant plug out of the socket. There was…
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And Things Just Kept On Growing
Ever since he was a kid, Stevie had a unique … well, talent’s not the word, but it will do for now. He’d sit in the garden playing on his own, lost to a world of his own making, where Star Wars figures drove Matchbox cars to battle the giant A-Team figurines who were running…
