Tag: invasion
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INVASIVE SPECIES
The spores floated through the air. No one knew where they had come from. Some said outer space, some said underground, some said the remotest part of the Great Steppe. Some revered as they passed overhead, some reviled. Portents of doom mixed with euphoria. The Great Coming of either a God or a Devil. Alarms…
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INVASION
Forage duty. They try to tell you it’s a privilege, an honour. You’re special, a chosen one. The truth is it’s dangerous. You’re expendable and you’re exposed. Return empty-handed and you will be punished. That’s why I’m still out here as the light fails, still hunting. They only come for us at night. It’s suicide…
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SURVIVAL
I tried not to vomit as I peeled the fetid sock away from my foot. It came off in tattered patches, stuck to the putrid flesh underneath. The pain was excruciating. I had to look. It wasn’t my foot any longer. I didn’t recognise it. It was just a lump of red-purple meat. There were…
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F IS FOR FAMAGUSTA, CYPRUS
A STORY OF FOLLY IN FAMAGUSTA, CYPRUS ‘Not even Turkish Cypriots are allowed in,’ my guide Ferhat tells me as we peer through the barbed wire. Beyond lies a golden beach, straight out of a tourist board advert with the deep blue Mediterranean lapping gently on the shore. Look closer though and things don’t look…
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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,…
Iain Kelly 