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Third
World
One of our famous one page stories by GF Willmetts.
11/2004
Black
Cat Investments Ltd. - Your Money Is Safe With Us
One of our famous one page stories by Rod MacDonald.
11/2004
One
Page Stories Submissions (or What To Do, What To Write And How to
Submit)
This is an experiment on the website for all of you writers and
neo-writers out there. One of the criticisms that I raise when working
my way through our slush pile is that writers need to learn how
to tell a story with a limited word count to make everything count
and tell a good story.
11/2004
Stones
Short story from Radi Todorov Radev, a 26-year old science fiction
author from Bulgaria. As well as his fiction, Radi usually writes
the Bulgarian SF news reports for Locus.
08/2004
Lapins
It was one of the most select restaurants of Time. Beyond Knot Pitt,
marked on any chronotopic map of the Tourism Special Offices ...
Michael Haulica serves up some time twistery in the form of his
latest short SF story.
01/2003
The
Composite Man
Editor Geoff slyly considers what ingredients you'd stir into the
pot to make the ideal science fiction hero for a cinema audience.
12/2003
Hengie
A short story from the pen of Jonathan Day. What on - or off - Earth
can happen when a robot artist shaped like a dragon starts collaborating
with the space programme? Read on to find out.
02/2003
Peanut
Butter & Magic
Just in time for Christmas, a short fantasy story from the oft-enchanted
pen of Elizabeth Burton.
01/2003
Hit
And Kismet
A time travel chestnut from the pen of our own dear editor. But
can you really send people into the past without upsetting the present?
Read on for some shocking short fiction …
11/2002
Liar's
Tale
The author of this fine piece of short fiction lives in West Wales
and concentrates on writing and hedonism. Can Lannah Battley write
SF every bit as mean as she parties?
08/2001:
Author:
Lannah Battley
Pollen-8
An alien invasion of Earth is on the cards, but it has to be cost-effective!
Yes, this issue we spoil you with another short story
dose of SF comedy from Marion Kelt.
08/2001:
Author: Marion Kelt
Architectural
Survival
Science fiction author Carl Barlow brings you a brand new piece
of short fiction. The house of the future is biological, but what
happens when your living room goes wiggy and tries to cook you in
acid?
03/2001:
Author:
Carl Barlow
Swine
Before Pearls
DF Lewis is an author that's been knocking around the horror and
dark fantasy scene for years. He turns our short stories like a
short order cook wallops out fried eggs. We've convinced him to
cast his pearls of literary genius before you swine. Anyone up for
a little bedtime story?
03/2001:
Author:
DF Lewis
Survival
Of The Divergence
A short story to warm your cockles in the run up to Christmas. The
future of mankind is in doubt after the bio-bomb wiped out most
of humanity. Out with the old DNA, in with the new?
12/1999:
Author:
Geoff Willmetts
Taming
Miss Oberon
The Psi-Cops are brought into play, facing their hardest mission
yet -
taming a rogue fairy. Hey, how hard can that be? Read this nail-biting
piece of fiction to find out.
11/1999:
Author: Geoff Willmetts
Eat
Me
Prospecting in the outer rim planets. SF
Author: Geoff Willmetts
A
Trip To Planet S.
Exploring planets was never like this with Star Trek's away team.
SF
Author: Marion Kelt
The
Manchester Mechanism
War is heck, in any parallel. Especially when its the British Empire
fighting those blasted American again. SF
Author: CS Barlow
Love
Me Not, Love Me
Time travel and love? Can these two ever mix. SF
Author: Geoff Willmetts
Inconvenient
What would you do if hell established itself in your back garden?
Crap youself, probably. Fantasy
Author: CS Barlow
Philanthropus
Wilding's Grand Day Out
Philanthropus Wilding meets a demon, and the demon isn't happy.
Fantasy
Author: Steven Conoboy
Tarred
And Feathered
A girl called Chance and a talking chicken - what more could you
want out of a story? Fantasy
Author: Steven Conoboy
Moth
To A Lamp
From the mental diary of Christopher Lancier: a Psi-Kicks story.
That future private dick sure can kick some ass.
Author: G.F.Willmetts
Major
Transcendent
The British Prime Minister has a problem. But can an astrologer
sort it out?
Author: M.M O'Driscoll
The
Man With The Foot-Long Nose
Genetic disasters can lead to some strange shaped noses. SF
Author: H. Turnip Smith
Shell
Game
When you have a problem in the future, there's only one man you
can rely on. And he ain't cheap. A Psi-Kicks story.
Author: G.F.Willmetts
Adapting
To Television
We have seen the future of the couch potato, and it not pretty ...
Author: CS Barlow
Glass
Chrysanthemums
If Anne Rice was writing cyberpunk, it might read like this ...
Author: Ceri Jordan
Harbringer
Down these mean streets a psionic must go. Mike Hammer meets the
Psi-Corp ...
Author: G.F Willmetts
Renee
In the next century, all medicine may be like this (don't get ill)
...
Author: George Jenner
The One-Eyed Fly
Horror from the master of the bizarre - D.F is the 21st century
Poe & Kafka.
Author: DF Lewis
The
'Shunt This' Fan Area
For all those
pests in the Stephen Hunt Newsgroup ('shunters' in fan parlance)
who have been demanding more of his fiction on the Nest's pages,
here's your very own corner.
A
Colder War
Short fiction: Veitnam invades America in the 1960s.
Author: Stephen Hunt
The
Ruffler And The Highwayman
Short fiction: Fantasy short set in the Triple Realm universe of
For The Crown and the Dragon.
Author: Stephen Hunt
Resurrection
View
Short fiction: America after the plague was never meant to be like
this.
Author: Stephen Hunt
In
The Domain Of Arnheim
Short fiction: An Agent Orange story (these are the tales a certain
TV producer was very 'influenced' by about three years ago).
Author: Stephen Hunt
The
Strange Intervention Of Sir Wollington-Wroxley-Wribble
Short fiction: Life as a courtier in the galaxy's largest body politic
can be a hectic - and dangerous - affair.
Author: Stephen Hunt
The
Fall Of The Dove
Short fiction: Trench warfare in the 21st century is a dirty business.
Author: Stephen Hunt
A
Sword Cuts
Short fiction: Does murder on a dead world count? A legion of Vacuum
Devils are sent to find out.
Author: Stephen Hunt
Mary
C.
Short fiction: Another Agent Orange story. An assassin is in London,
but has he been sent from the future or the past?
Author: Stephen Hunt
The Guns Of The Wisdom
Novel; sample chapters: What on earth made a young dilettante
like Horatio Bard want to leave the comfortable hedonistic paradise
of Terra for a deadly adventure across the stars? Well, he was
kidnapped.
Author: Stephen Hunt
For
If It Prosper
Novel; sample chapters: They said the Victorians didn't have
a secret service to combat the likes of the Tsar, Captain Nemo,
Abe Lincoln and Bismark. Guess they were wrong.
Author: Stephen Hunt
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