Burst Fiction
An active e-zine of one shot short stories, around 1000 characters in length, set in near contemporary times preferably, with scifi tendencies.
Curated by Erik Chevalier.
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An active e-zine of one shot short stories, around 1000 characters in length, set in near contemporary times preferably, with scifi tendencies.
Curated by Erik Chevalier.
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Shelly was the Librarian, and she hated it.
The Library was what they called the storage complex for souls. Or at least, the transcoded neural nets of Marauder victims who had been copied and…
“Did you see the news today?” Jan asked me, with that look on her face that told me whatever it was, she didn’t like it.
“No, why?”
“They’ve just invented a robotic human brain, it’s the last…
She watched him lazily as they lay entwined on the bed. Her fingers traced along his jawline, back and forth before brushing them gently across his lips. The feathery touch elicited a ghost of a…
They wanted his pinky finger at customs.
At first, he’d thought maybe they just wanted a print or a blood sample. But then, he’d seen what happened to the tentacle of the sapient in line ahead…
I woke at midnight on the day of my one hundredth birthday.
Some sound, perhaps some presence, had stirred my mind. I could see no one in the shadows of my bedroom, but that meant little….
“So do you have a name, or do I get to call you God from now on?” quipped Dreanna.
“A name…” He replied almost absentmindedly. He had several names, countless names throughout the eons. So…