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1) Gorgonise Me
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A Story Inspired by Medusa's Sister and a Piece of Unplayable Piano MusicTo gorgonise. An old English word based on Greek. Means to have a paralysing effect on someone.Taken to the extreme, as I always do. Evryali is a music piece for solo piano that cannot physically be played, composed by Iannis Xenakis in 1973. That means the piano player has to choose which notes to play and which not to, resulting in a performance that transcends form and function....
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Tony saw his dead wife. She wasn't a ghost, and he wasn't crazy. But he saw her, and she couldn't see him.When Tony's wife dies, he's left with a gadget at home that maintains the last images of her. But will he manage to get on with his life when people hate him for his wife's actions, when he's torn with guilt every day of his miserable life and when the holographic image of his wife torments him despite being unable to turn it off?
3) Jellyspace
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A collection of #spitwrite stories.
Includes:
The Imiteles Space Station
The Garbage Cube
The Recovery Building
Looking Down on People From Atop a Big-Ass Mecha
The Hologram Riot
Waifu Wedding
A Self-Driving Car Named Desire
Viking Shipbuilding
Chain Inaction
Adiadne's String
Shrooming is Serious Business
Robo Dune
The Godfather
Zeppelin City
Dysmorphia
Jellyspace
Utopia Needs U
Don't Sleep
Pagophilic
Tickle My Pickle
Meat the...
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When the dumbest woman on the planet sets her eyes on the nearest asteroid, she ignores all logical problems and tries to claim it for herself. But will she manage to launch a rocket that far and claim the mining rights, when a rocket seems to cost quite a bit of money, when the Brainiacs at NASA say it cannot be done and when stupid issues like physics and rocket science try to get in her way?
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This collection contains short stories inspired by the word prompts and the daily sketches of two artists.
Stories included:
Machimagic
Mecha-Chicken Race
Sweet, Hot Taffy
Have You Tried Turning Her Off and On Again?
Come and Get It
Hewoo
Berenice's Hair
Closely Guarded Secret
The Veil
Fluffy or Shiny?
Explosive Decompression
Welcome to the Asterism
Sir Patrick and the Mermaid
The Redjus
Generations of Gold
A Trillion-Dollar Rock...
7) Hewoo
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Cooky was just going on about her business, heading home on her birthday. And those meanie assassins showed up out of nowhere. How rude.
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A collection of #spitwrite stories.
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Technosphere
The Last Stargunner
Metal Fever
Hot Jupiter
Nanodaemons: The Fir Smart-Tree
It is Sometimes an Appropriate Response to Reality to Just Go Insane
Love is a Car Wreck
Simming Problem, My Ass
Custody Battle for Little Johnny
Santa Fight Club
The Red Holidays
Just Take a Nap
Sex, Lies and Propaganda
Acquisition Time
Smog City: A Girl and a Gun
The Rebirth of Capitalism
Nyx It
Alien Animal Control
Killing...
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Robo Muffin is just one match away from winning the Cyberpink Tournament, the precious sword, and the choice of trading it for her freedom. Will she win? What will she decide between fame and freedom?A Cyberpink short story.For more tidbits and stories, visit cyberpinktournament.com
10) Logomachy
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A battle of words.A collection of short stories with the theme of language:Meat the AliensChucking Moon Rocks on the Back of my Pickup TruckThe Kiss of the SphinxThe Last StargunnerSpeaking in BubblesThe Root of the ProblemAstropithecus
12) Cosmophobia
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Who is watching the stars, every second of every day, so we can better understand the universe?
Inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope which will be launched and deployed in 2020. It will hopefully be as invaluable as Hubble was, opening our eyes to the cosmos.
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