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Category: 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

The Boundary (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 13, 2018 periswriter

The transmission came in on the Z channel. The Z channel was an old channel the miners used back when…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction

The Railroad (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 10, 2018 periswriter

In 2018, President Trump announced that we were going back to the moon and appointed a new head of NASA.…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction

The Creature (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 8, 2018 periswriter

Europa, in its glorious glow, was discovered by the illustrious Galileo and so named after the Cretan queen. She never…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction

The Pearly Knife – Part V [A Lucy Lore Mystery] (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 6, 2018 periswriter

I was annoyed. What was new? Annoyance was my default setting since my morning swim was thwarted by a dead…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

The Pearly Knife – Part IV [A Lucy Lore Mystery] (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 4, 2018 periswriter 1 Comment

Nigel was the color of an electric burner set on medium. Bright red and on the verge of boiling hottest…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

Bee Daddy – Part II (Story by Todd Thommes)

May 2, 2018 periswriter

I had left the hospital and was still recovering from the killer bee attack when the compulsions started. I drew…

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Posted in: Fiction

The Pearly Knife – Part III [A Lucy Lore Mystery] (Story by R.C. Peris)

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One day ago, the veterinarian for Heath on the Hampshire was found dead in the community pool with a pearly…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

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