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MirrorStep: a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts.
‘You didn’t give your name?’ ‘I didn’t. Call me Jones.’ ‘First name?’ ‘Mister.’ The detective looked at the light-haired man, who smiled back.…
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December 2024
November 2024
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Time Remembers Nothing: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
I can spot a scam. A long-term scam at that. Eventually. A few years ago, I was asked to finance a time travel…
September 2024
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Keeping Up With The Joneses, a story by: GF Willmetts.
Whoever said colonising another planet would be easy, even when the inhabitants were welcoming offworlders. The only problem was they couldn’t tell us…
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A Shaggy Werewolf Story: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
You would think being a werewolf was a good deal. Four nights of the month with a full moon you go all hairy,…
August 2024
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The Quotas Man: a story of data by: GF Willmetts.
People think my hobby is crazy. Filling quotas of how many things we are supposed to do. Mostly because they say it can’t…
June 2024
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7 Minutes Of Fame: a short story by GF Willmetts.
The show’s mantra got going off its reel: ‘The late artist Andy Warhol once or maybe more than once said that everyone was…
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Assassin’s Mark: a story by: GF Willmetts.
‘Thank your secretary for letting me in, sir. On my advice, she’s gone home for the night.’ The man at the desk looked…
April 2024
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Last Riter On Erath: a sorht story by GF Willmetts (fiction).
All the booke agents, one after the other, said I was never good enough to be a professional riter but not really telling…
March 2024
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Long Orbit Flight : a short story but a long ride by: GF Willmetts
Ever since oumuamus, the opportunity to hitchhike on a natural object speeding through the solar system seemed a good way to do it.…
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Human-Lite: a story of two halves by GF Willmetts (fiction).
No man is an island until you count how many atoms they contain and find that they divide you from other people. A…
February 2024
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Gambling Odds Part B: a story in two halves by: GF Willmetts.
Something we’ve kept out of the public eye is knowing that there are alien sentients watching us out there. Not because they’re scared…
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Gambling Odds Part A: a story in two halves by: GF Willmetts.
The one thing that the Earthers have a reputation for above all others is to gamble. They’d bet which foot they’d start to…