The latest thing in 2000 was 500 word short stories. I got the idea from the excellent adhoc which publishes them for £200 a shot. If you try your luck with them and they are blind enough that they turn you down (I am the living proof this can happen) then send yours to me and I'll put it up here.
There are also some longer items of fiction and some poems, if you'd be interested.
There is a bucket outside and things are swimming in it. The child approaches - let’s not say with interest, because the child approaches everything with interest at this age - with heightened interest. The child rests a hand on the edge of the bucket. It’s a grey galvanised steel bucket, full ...
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As you know, mountains converse by avalanches, rockfalls, re-shaping glaciers and so on. A single sentence takes decades. The following, between two central African basaltic intrusions, was recorded from 5631182093 to 5631182847 as mountains reckon years.
Rugendwara: So there were ...
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'I'm worried.'
'You're his mother.'
'Doesn't it bother you?'
'Of course. I don't want our son throwing away everything we've given him. But it's just a cult. We can talk to him.'
'I wouldn't mind if he was happy. But now he wants to move in with them. I heard ...
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Crossing the orbit of Pluto, Victoria had been accelerating at g/3 for twenty days. Ship's time was still close to observer time, the comms lag a shade over eleven hours. The first manned vessel to head into deep space, as her namesake had been first to circumnavigate the globe, Victoria was ...
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'It's brilliant, Joachim.'
'You can make it work?'
'Surely. I am an engineer. Only it is the idea one must first find.'
'Good, my friend. It will make you rich.'
The older of the young men paused and stroked his moustache. He called for two more schnapps then ...
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