Inspired by this image on Elizabeth Moon’s Website. (Click on the picture to go to the photo gallery.) This was originally intended to be a 200-word contest entry, but makes little sense without the photo!
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(c) Elizabeth Moon
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Memory glittered like diamond dust on the floor. The landing could have been worse, but Zzzrtss couldn’t think how. Zzzrtss couldn’t think much of anything, since most of his mind had fallen off in the controlled crash he’d managed after being attacked by a creature bigger than his ship.
Continue reading Damselfly In Distress
A horror story for writers, inspired by posts from Doranna Durgin and Elizabeth Moon on Julie Czerneda’s newsgroup.
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Emma went to get a cup of coffee while the revised draft of her story was printing. One more read-through, just for typos, and it should be ready to send. She grabbed the pages out of the tray, and headed out to the patio. She’d learned the hard way not to do a read-through at her desk… she’d start changing things and fixing typos and never make it all the way through. Let alone get any sense at all of how it flowed.
Continue reading The Glitch
