Tag: Humanity
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A GLIMMER IN THE DARKNESS
I like to sit up here and watch the dawn. That first flicker, the unsteady fragile glint of sunlight peaking over the horizon. It means that a hundred and fifty million kilometres away, the searing ball of gas is still glowing, emanating warmth and light towards us. One day someone may sit in my place…
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THE ENEMY WITHIN
‘This is Mount Lemmon Observatory calling, is there anyone receiving?’ Only static hiss replied. Marshall rubbed his sweat-stained forehead. ‘Can anyone update us? What has happened?’ The static noise stopped. Dead silence. Marshall maneuvered the telescope with the controls. He tilted it down to face the horizon. Outside he saw bare, dead trees and barren…
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D IS FOR DRESDEN, GERMANY
A STORY OF DÉTENTE IN DRESDEN, GERMANY Alan Smith stood among the locals of Dresden in the reconstructed Neumarkt, looking with the crowd towards the Frauenkirche with its wondrous dome topped by a golden cross gleaming in the dusk sky. The dignitaries were filing into the building, German mainly but also religious leaders from far…
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SYMBIONT
The final clue had led her here, to the building decorated with rhombi in shades of green. She didn’t know where the clues came from, they just appeared in her head. Someone, or something, was planting them there. All she had to do was follow. What were they trying to tell her? She didn’t know,…
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TERRORIST
Blackness enveloped the city. The power curfew began at midnight. The grid was shutdown. Homes were silent. Streetlights dark. A flicker of rare candlelight betrayed the restaurant or club that refused to close. An occasional set of car headlights crept passed, driven by those lucky enough to still have access to the electricity needed to…
Iain Kelly 