Fantasy, Sci Fi, and Supernatural Thriller Stories
Fantasy Stories
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Ahavah’s Golem
“If Rava created a man, why shouldn’t I create a woman?”
To tell her that what the great rabbi created, a greater one dissolved, will not satisfy this child. For she is not driven by pride, or avarice, but by a broken heart.
She is only twelve, and she has lost much more than father and mother and home; she has lost her trust in the faith that they taught her. Her name is Ahavah, and I know the anger that burns within her.
“Should life be created to bring death?” I finally reply to her question.
She is thrice surprised: That I found her hiding place in a long-abandoned house, that I understood the words she spoke and the symbols she arranged upon the ground, and that I know why she means to raise a Golem.
This story first appeared in ResAliens Zine Issue #11
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Feythful
They had everything they needed in their modest farm except an heir to care for them in their old age. Yet Parson Acke Rahm and his wife Carita, the village midwife, lived contented lives. Though fate had denied them the very joy she had brought to their kith and kin in their village, and beyond, they had no regrets. Then one evening there was a knocking at their door.
(This story first appeared in Antipodean SF issue 292, 21 January, 2023)
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Worse Monsters
The loose wrappings at my wrist and neck flutter like flags of war in the wind. Hand over hand I turn and face the rocky wall of the precipice. I have to pull up; but my sinews do not remember how. I look down again and wonder if that too will be my end.
(This story first appeared in Antipodean SF, November 2021)
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Hydra
A backpack full of flashbangs, a loudspeaker, and a road flare; those are my weapons? ‘He knows best’ is not the most rational answer. But I guess I left the domain of the rational a few thousand miles ago. One more door before me. I no longer cringe at the moaning hinges.
(This story was first published in Antipodean SF issue 275. It also appeared as a podcast in the Antipodean SF Radio Show )
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Science Fiction (SciFi) Stories
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Et tenebrae super faciem abyssi
His particle physics class at the Autonomous University of Madrid summarily interrupted, Father Felipe Bernal found himself chauffeured to the airport, paging through the supporting documents of a proposal that became more far-fetched the deeper he dug into the pile. “Someone’s claiming a breakthrough in Extremely Low Frequency electromagnetic communication?”
This story first appeared in the April 2025 issue of Antipodean SF. https://www.antisf.com/
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Unforgettable
Within a year of Dr. Theokleia Ouranidou’s tenure at the Vissel Tri-State Memory Care and Neurological Rehabilitation Centre, our success treating Alzheimer’s and Traumatic Brain Injury patients became the world standard. I saw unresponsive, even catatonic, patients awaken into a renewed, fully aware life with their loved ones. I saw war-injured veterans reacquire full control of their bodies after the undamaged parts of their brains completely retrained themselves in response to the physical therapy.
(This story first appeared in Antipodean SF issue 317, March 2025)
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A blind fish story
Millimeter for millimeter, the cosmic ray neutron shielding power of iron outperforms lead by a factor of five. And Carl Newman’s Remote Sensing suite had found the mother of all mother lodes in the largest asteroid belt ever seen by man; free for the taking. And, as if that were not enough, low orbit magneto-metric mapping of the system’s only habitable planet suggested it too contained vast underground deposits of the metal.
(This story first appeared in the anthology Alien Dimensions; Space Fiction Short Story Anthology Series #23; Edited by Neil A. Hogan, 2022)
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ACC was right
Nothing can be in two places at the same time or in two times at the same place. The first seems obvious to us. The second is guaranteed by the expansion of the universe and the fact that every planet, every star, every galaxy in the universe is constantly moving. Here won’t be here tomorrow.
(This story first appeared in Antipodean SF issue 283, 21 Apr. 2022)
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Supernatural Thriller Stories
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Template of the Rephaim
1862: Dr. Bernice Vedeen has chartered transport across the Black Sea to carry medical supplies intended for Dr. Livingstone’s mission in Africa. She does not believe in the existence of vampires. But the discovery of the blood-drained corpse of a Russian aristocrat on board is about to bring her face to face with an even deadlier terror.
Template of the Rephaim first appears in the Crossover Alliance’s Second Anthology. It is also intended as Chapter 1 of the novel, Hallowstone: Return of the Mocker.
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From the Blog
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Pilate’s trial: John 18:28-19:16
We normally think of Jesus’ apprehension and trial as being all about Him. Sure, they were the means for the culmination of His mission. But we can do nothing about it. Jesus submitted Himself to the will of the Father and everything happened as planned. It is unchangeable. What is changeable, in the midst of it all, is us. How do we choose to respond to it?
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Trials, Part I: John 18:1-27
Holy Week having passed not so long ago, the story of the Passion is still fresh in our minds. Depending on which gospel you read it from, you get different details; so that all the narratives can be woven together into a coherent whole in a Combined Gospel. We continue with John’s eyewitness testimony.
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