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Products

“What is the value you have?” A simple, short question. The start question for every potential employer. Answering was simple. … More

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Follow the Blood

Absolute silence combined with absolute darkness can drive you mad. Your brain begins to fill in the void with its … More

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Remains

I didn’t realise at first. Everybody was dead. Everybody. I was on the beach, the sun was out, the wind … More

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Abuse

The routine The bedroom had always been a stressful place, a box. Grace took a deep breath and gazed at … More

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Junkers

Commander Callum Rinder’s dust-dry mouth had an acidic taste to it, he had not eaten since the dawn’s light and … More

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Disintegration

At 11:11 PM Greenwich Mean Time at the bus stop on the corner of Carver Avenue in the sleepy British … More

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Something in the Tide

My best friend, Marty Darnell, used to say he could read the shape of people. I often wondered what he … More

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Angels of Suburbia

The suburban matrix was still and quiet and not in the usual way. There were no young mothers pushing prams … More

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Drunk at the End of the World

I witnessed the curling black mushroom cloud for the briefest of moments, it reached over the city on fire like … More

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The Girl Who Bought a Planet

“What is it worth to you, really?” That was his twisting question. Alasha looked the trade agent in the eye … More

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Terror Island

They could read your mood. That was the most terrifying thing. I wondered if they could even read your decisions. … More

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Runners of the Wastelands

“There are twenty artefacts on the countertop, on the top floor of the Lewis temple, and there are fifty of … More

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The Hunger of Leviathan

The sea was a mirror of the sky except, in one, you would drown and in the other, you would … More

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The Last Words of Annie

Genemagix, the word was nonsense, like most brands and company names, and yet, the investment-burgeoning startups of Silicon Valley hinged … More

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Scraps

It had seemed like a good idea to view the city from the highest point, which was obviously Grey’s Insurance … More

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The Monster from the Woods

The storm was keeping Sam Morrison awake. He listened to the lid fly from the recycling bin and clatter across … More

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The Elevator Trials

Norman Grant didn’t believe in predetermined fate or praying to God but he was contemplating both of these ideas as … More

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The Farm 

It was disturbing to take in the endless, neat rows of empty white seats in the preparation space. There had … More

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Shame Fame

I awoke sharply from a feverish dream, where I was standing with statuesque stillness and completely naked at a conference … More

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Future Orientation

“You can not travel back in time. It’s impossible and why would you want to? But time travel is possible, … More

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