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Submitted to Contest #311
How could one make amends when so much was broken? How could one even find a way to start when the other had fled to the farthest reaches of Final-Edge? Paul Kalman ached in places he knew a medical scan would never find the source of. His judgement then had been clouded by anger. Now it stung with regret. And even though he had a job to do, every minute of it was interrupted by a memory of her, played back across his mind in harsh clarity. Even here, on the Inner-Edge planet of Hilmir, thousands of lightyears from deep space where… someplac...
Submitted to Contest #310
Who thought the latticework of Terag could hold such horror? Promenades and parades soaked with the chaotic artwork of battle, the prismatic array of neon lights dulled by splatters of blood and shattered glass. Maybe if the Home-Hold Alliance had attacked a few hours later, the streets would have had their final injection of salty, half-charcoaled vatmeat grilled over the violet flames of Stretan fuel, or the aroma of drinks spiced with Kalabar and enriched with the fruity gases of euphoric orbs. But they hadn’t. Lunch had never come and in...
Submitted to Contest #309
Palorian whisky. That was what glittered as it fell from a chrome red decanter into a crystal glass. Straight on the rocks but with a cocktail of light sliced across its flowing surface, cast from the cobalt neon of NO-9 spaceport and Laran’s F-type star blazing in the darkness. The whisky swirled around the spherical cut ice, rising to the rim of the glass, before the decanter was set to one side and Paul Kalman let out a sigh. “Cheers… to twelve… wonderful years.” Paul smiled falsely at his own dishevelled reflection in the mirror behind t...
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