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The Animal Of My Animal… a short story by: GF Willmetts.
It should never have happened but it did. I mean, why arm animals? Back in the old days, you go out with a…
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February 2020
January 2020
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Out Of The Hutch And Into The Fire: a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts.
Scobie looked at herself in the shop window. Still a rabbit, even after a second trip in a shape-changing time machine. She played…
December 2019
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Mind Games or Scobie In WonderMirrorOzland : a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts
A road of gold. A city of verdigris. A nearby forest. Flanolla Scobie thought she was in Wonderland and looked around for the…
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The Problem With Fantasy: an article and story by GF Willmetts.
I might have mentioned in passing over the years that I don’t particularly like fantasy, mostly because it’s so easy to cheat and…
November 2019
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Chaos Practice: a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts.
Flanolla Scobie didn’t even bother to look as she crossed the road. She also ignored the chaos of the various horse-driven traffic behind…
September 2019
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The Thousand Century War: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
I don’t know how many times that I’ve watched the footage. Digital preservation ensured it survived the centuries. An alien object was spotted…
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Mister 2 Per Cent: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
I looked down at the fallen landscape that once upon a time I would have called my home planet Earth. What was a…
July 2019
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Alien Roots : a short story by: GF Willmetts
From space, our Earth looks a delightful blue from the oceans with a touch of green from the vegetation. It doesn’t show the…
June 2019
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A Few Nips In History : a short story by: GF Willmetts
You know how it is. People think werewolves are monsters. They even fortified the myths against us. As if we need a full…
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This Side Of Hell: a story by: GF Willmetts.
I am Schrödinger’s ghost. Well, not really him but his living theory. I got hit by a car and an inch from having…
May 2019
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Pregnancy Paws: a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts.
‘For a reality that isn’t stanya…stable, it’s lasting a long time’, MacKensie commented, watching Callane Oberon eat her diet of grubs. Her knack…
March 2019
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Moxie : a short story by: GF Willmetts
I studied the gravestone. The words give my master John’s name and the length of his life but anything else is a touch…