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The Language Lesson (Story by R.C. Peris)

June 4, 2018 periswriter 3 Comments

Language is odd. They don’t know why humans developed it or even developed the capacity for it. It’s useful in…

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Posted in: Fiction

Rocket to Mars (R.C. Peris)

June 2, 2018 periswriter

The neighborhood nominated me. To travel on the rocket to Mars. Old Man Beets had been tinkering for a while…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction, Science Fiction

Human (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 31, 2018 periswriter

They had been extracting blood for years after the human genome was mapped. Who are we? What culture or race…

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Posted in: Fiction, Travel

The Sound of a Ghost (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 29, 2018 periswriter

What sound does the sunrise make? Dr. Clark decided it was the sound of trickling water. He had a memory,…

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Posted in: Fiction, Travel

Listening (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 25, 2018 periswriter

You have to narrow your world to expand your world. I don’t know who told me that. Maybe I read…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction

A Poison Gut Trip to the Getty (Story by R.C. Peris) [Longer Story]

May 23, 2018 periswriter

Babababa. Baaabaaabaaa. Corey squished his eyes shut tightly. It was there, somewhere. Not here, but elsewhere. He knew it. Bababa.…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction

Johnny B. Goode (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 21, 2018 periswriter

Voyager I was an investment in humanity’s hope. We are lonely and we want so desperately to know we are…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction

Come Back to Me (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 19, 2018 periswriter

Come back. Come back to me. It was my mother’s voice. I heard it often in my sleep. I had…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction

Heavy Flow (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 17, 2018 periswriter

It was so stupid. I only went to the gym in the morning because Dafne went. She went wacko on…

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Posted in: Fiction, Humour

It is Fine to Suffer (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 15, 2018 periswriter

It was customary for astronauts who were leaving Earth permanently to have a party and invite everyone they knew. A…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction

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