Category: Short fiction
A Quiz Show On Snuffworld: a Snuffworld story by: GF Willmetts.
Detective Inspector Baratty Rabatty watched the quiz show, ‘Call My Death’, clearly unimpressed. The quizmaster showed a lot of teeth with obvious false smiles, even when it came to the losers being walked off to be eliminated by the hostess, the smile kept beaming. He hadn’t even bothered to learn their names before the purge. […]
The Ingenious Genius : a Realworlder story by: GF Willmetts
The company, FloatTek headquarters, was across the other side of the city. SIN had provided different GeneTag identity responses to the police check as they left the precinct where Cheena had killed nine assassins a few hours previously. January took them to a locker in the railtube and filled her rucksack with various items, including […]
The Perfect Professional: a Realworlder story by: GF Willmetts.
From her vantage point in the clock tower, Cheena Chase sighted her sniper-scope telescopic sight down into the plaza. She adjusted the setting to compensate for the street lights in the late evening. An hour ago she received back a text message accepting her application for a multiple hit and even the weapon to do […]
Life In The Paradox: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
There I was waiting. Not me me, of course, but still me. A younger me. I’m the older me. I think I was fulfilling a paradox. For the time machine to work, I had to return to the past to give myself the information to enable me to complete the time machine so one day […]
Mary Contrary: a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts.
‘Hello, Mary.’ ‘Hello, Jane.’ ‘How do I look?’ ‘You’ve grown a little.’ ‘I haven’t seen you a few years. Do you remember a friend of mine, Polly Kettle?’ ‘Polly Kettle?’ <<She taught me a mental trick. Can you still hear me?>> ‘Yes.’ It had taken three days to get that far. The opening lesson had […]
Cinderbrella Or What If The Shoe Didn’t Fit : a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts
There were some times that Polly Kettle was glad that she left her team behind when she did a reconnaissance. More so in the steampunk reality Max had placed them in. Still a message was a message. A personal invitation card to a gala ball for her upper class alias, a royal ball at that […]
Schedule: a very short story by: GF Willmetts.
‘Kathy-Jo? What’s my schedule for this week?’ ‘The usual, Mr. President.’ ‘With who? Any long time out of the office.’ ‘You’re in Washington all this week, sir.’ ‘No emergency summits?’ ‘Only if you plan any international embargoes.’ ‘Not this week. I’ve covered all my election promises now, haven’t I?’ ‘Only a few minor ones left, […]
The Aladdin Box: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
Farday Lumo held in her glee. It had taken a long search and many caves, levering the slab out of the way and she now had found the legendary Aladdin Box. It wasn’t actually a box, at least on Earth. It looked more like an oil lamp, like the one from the Aladdin story, hence […]
Backwater Planet: a short story by GF Willmetts.
When we sent out generation starships, we don’t expect to see them come back. More so, this was one of the earliest ones. Didn’t even have humans on-board. Just a contingent of primates. Chimpanzees in fact. Bonobos if you want to be precise. A space-buoy had signalled when it was 300 years out to say […]
A Hardliner On Snuffworld : a story by: GF Willmetts
‘WHY HAVE I BEEN CALLED?’ Chief Detective Llanbasah Caddoasec’s boomed, looking down at the two detectives. The Granolan towered over the two detectives, holding a megaphone in his hand. He had seen it being used on an Earther film where everyone listened to its authority. ‘A conflict of murders,’ Detective Inspector Baratty Rabatty replied. […]
