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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A Saijo City based short story.
The last thing Commons saw before the concussion wave hit was code he’d been focussed on writing for the last several days. Then there was nothing but the high…
“Do you remember the first time you were badly hurt?”
“Not really. Don’t we all experience our share of scrapes and bruises in childhood?”
“No, that’s not what I mean. Have you ever suffered an…
My first impression of the place was not so great.
“Where are the chairs?” I asked. “I need a place to sit down.”
“They don’t have chairs,” Cap told me. “They can’t use ‘em.”
“What does that…
“Yes that’s right.” she said. “In the old days you needed quite a lot of ‘money’ just to survive. ‘Cost of living’ they called it then. It was sort of barbaric, people starving and living on…
“Oh gee, another wave.”, Captain Theurer muttered sarcastically. Swarms of the creatures were coming up towards him from the center of another wormhole.
A few days earlier, Earth’s Defender Squad…