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Parental Love And Other Terrors (a short story by: GF Willmetts).
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Parental Love And Other Terrors (a short story by: GF Willmetts).

I woke with a start. There were some vague memory of walking down the street and then…well…I was here. If

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All Done With Mirrors: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
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All Done With Mirrors: a short story by: GF Willmetts.

The sun broke through my curtains waking me with an accompaniment of the bird chorus outside. Realising I was late,

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Penalty Clause: Taken At Random: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
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Penalty Clause: Taken At Random: a short story by: GF Willmetts.

‘Who accepted this insurance?’ Gideon Snap asked, getting himself up-to-date as they wanted into the count building. ‘Someone somewhere is

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Admin At The OK Garage: a Psi-Kicks story, by GF Willmetts.
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Admin At The OK Garage: a Psi-Kicks story, by GF Willmetts.

C opened his eyes. The last thing he remembered was being driven to his SIS Office. Now he was sitting

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Devil’s Deck: a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts.
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Devil’s Deck: a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts.

<<Why Australia, Sara? We couldn’t be further from the Maxs.>> Sara Seeker turned and looked at Sheena Ramone. They had

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176 Years: Coming Ready Or Not: a short story by: GF Willmetts.

My computer flagged up an old space mission. The only manned flight left. Every 176 years, the outer planets line

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Not So Vacant Possession: a story by: GF Willmetts.

‘That’s your star there. No, not that one. The one next to it. A little dimmer but also a lot

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Anywhere But Here: a story by: GF Willmetts.

You have to ask yourself why didn’t I kill him earlier? What? And deprive my wife of her son? I

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Planet Stories Pulp.
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Living In The Past: a really short story by: GF Willmetts.

The discovery shook the world and added a new set of scientific rules to the ones we already had when

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The World In Mind: a short story by: GF Willmetts.

I think I ought to tell you all how it happened. Not just you but everyone in the world. Sorry

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