Category: short fiction
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Independence for the Lunar Union
In July of Earth year Spatio Annus 30, the Lunar Union declared independence from the UNE. Even with the support of the Peacekeepers, there was violence after the voting. The remaining UNE loyalists claimed Ganymede 3 and held for a year. Jack jumped over the cement barricade under a hail of ammunition raining into the…
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A Path After the Road
A short story by Tyler Golec Halfway through June, the sun was hot and the boy and girl were sweating hard as they ran up the road. Their faces could have been the same, siblings with long dark hair. The brother, older by a year, led their charge up the mountain road. The promise of…
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Tides of Europa
“You are embedded into the crust of a moon, surrounded by hundreds of kilometers of earth and ocean. After that, it’s seventeen kilometers of ice before you can see the cosmos again,” Raina said softly to herself, only her assistant heard her. More loudly she said, “Dr. Adams, have the drones scan the tissue of…
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Don’t Hunt the Hunter
I drank from the bottle of beer and blood. More alleyways, no more gentlemen. The streets were now only home to the cold.
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Dreaming
Crawling for understanding But only finding sex
Tyler Golec's Writings 