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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

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A Shaggy Werewolf Story: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
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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

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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

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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

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Assassin’s Mark: a story by: GF Willmetts.
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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

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The last riter
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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

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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

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Human-Lite: a story of two halves by GF Willmetts (fiction).
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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

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Gambling Odds Part B: a story in two halves by: GF Willmetts.
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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

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Gambling Odds Part A: a story in two halves by: GF Willmetts.
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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

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