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Unbound
Lucius Deculla, centurion of the quinquereme Rhenus, stared at what was left of his advance guard. Body parts, ripped, torn, bitten through—even through armour—were strewn everywhere in the clearing just beyond the sequestered landing at the top of the cliff.
This story first appeared in Swords & Heroes Quarterly Q-1 2025, March 20, 2025; edited by Lyndon Perry.https://www.amazon.com/Swords-Heroes-Quarterly-Q-1-2025/dp/B0F24B41ZD
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I Will Not Give My Glory to Another
“Mistress!” Having uttered that exclamation aloud, Kalumtum, youngest of the bondmaids of the palace, panicked. All prudence had vanished at the utter surprise: at seeing her alone, unguarded, in the market street by the eastern gate of the city.
(This story first appeared in Lyn Perry’s, Swords & Heroes e-zine, Story #21, March 18, 2025)
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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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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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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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