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Thanks, Nate, polish, yes, absolutely. Dialogues, also various mini-inconsistencies, like the tourist's livefeed suddenly becoming a recording, etc. But he'll have to stay a space tourist on a space w

Hannah was working, hanging face down two hundred and eighty miles above the Earth. Gigantic feathery whirlpools seethed soundlessly over northern Mexico and the southern parts of the American east ...

Short Fiction Market Flat Rates Circa Summer 2011 (took me a while today, but being a compulsive obsessive has its uses :D ) electric tragedy $3 The wifiles $3 $3 ...

Hi, Button, I also respect the 'near future' scenarios, have actually written a few myself :) so I find myself more or less at home with the plot, minus the ...

Empress, this is a fantastic piece. Two minor things caught my attention. 1. The very first line stands aside. Probably a kick-off line which helped you gather momentum, a grain ...

Hi Ziggy! Thanks for the review. It was just a bomb out of nowhere. What sort of expression did he have on his face, was he gloomy? What of the ...

Dear Hazelgreen, and thank you for the lovely reaction! Alas, the ending isn't a cliffhanger, it's supposed to be a 'twist ending', like with the other professor Hosselhoff story. I ...

cough, how about these two flash-shorts? I will, of course, reciprocate :D

Yes, 'tis flash-fiction to be sent to some flash-zine, I figure

Hi, Cat A very meaningful and straightforward little poem. A few possible suggestions: Life is formed by threads and strands To try to walk them is to fall. I'm broken ...

Time for him to earn a few bucks in the magazine continuum

Thank you, thank you:) I make no promises to continue this, thought, sometimes I just have a half-hour's inspiration which leads to an open-ended fragment and things end with that.

What was 203 markets yesterday has dwindled to a mere 143 today. I checked them out with my loong morning coffee and deleted the defunct ones and the ones that ...

Yes, I went ahead and made this list. Now buy me a coffee Most of them pay about five bucks, a few pay serious moneys, but hey, it's racking up ...

The rain drummed on the enormous skeletal hulk, creating short-lived puddles in the indentations of the horned skull and sending rivulets cascading down the porous ribs. Darus stood inside the ...