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Michael Strange
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Stories (4/0)
The Pearl Box
I won’t miss Nine. During the silent hours, the plastic men finally came and took her away. I didn't hear them, though I’ve tried hard to listen for when it would happen. We all knew her time was coming. Nine had gotten wrinkles near the corners of her eyes, and lined faces don’t stay long in the boxes.
By Michael Strangeabout a year ago in Fiction
The Hand Reclaimed
Danica Gray, the “Hand-Reclaimed,” stood at the top of the tower of Flame and Glory, watching the world end. It did not seem that way to the people in the city below. They were all too astonished by the miracle to understand its implications. Nine stranger moons had suddenly appeared from the darkness of space, crowding around their doleful Oodrin, their native moon whose blue-gray light always ebbed and flowed perfectly with the months and seasons.
By Michael Strangeabout a year ago in Fiction
The Hum
For the longest time, I thought cancer was as bad as it got. Objectively, I know there are more terrible things in the world by comparison, like genocide and sex trafficking, but those evils felt more like figments to me, like barely-audible ghosts that only stalked news outlets and human rights blogs. To me, they were no more real than all the other depressing and violent shit I saw daily; it was just background.
By Michael Strangeabout a year ago in Fiction
The Stary Floor
Ilya had calculated the odds a hundred times. The ship shouldn’t be there. It shouldn’t be anywhere near them. The Universe was infinite—so wide and so vast that even their vaulted consciousness couldn’t fathom of the whole of it. But there it was on the huge C.R.C. screen: an Abromic ship. It hovered almost directly beneath the ringed planet the computer records indicated as LR81-16. Without magnification, it only registered as a tiny metallic dot pulsing in the doleful light of the system’s Red Dwarf.
By Michael Strangeabout a year ago in Fiction