Category: Short fiction
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. […]
The Stone Killer : a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts
Who fears her the most? Those she’s been asked to protect or the person she’s been asked to apprehend? Like the daughter of death that she represented, she stalked through the streets unfearing in the poor light. Late in the evening, other than herself, only the drunks and the prossies, looking for a hook, patrolled […]
Travel Class : a story by: GF Willmetts
It’s a dream of everyone to fly in space. No matter the price. But who can afford first or business class? Yeah, you get your own custom spacesuit but you only really need that for EVA. The passenger unit is pressurised so why pay for the extra you aren’t likely to use? You also get […]
Light In The Sky : a Psi-Kicks story by GF Willmetts.
‘At least he didn’t leave us impoverished,’ Courtney Adams said, looking at herself again in a shop window. She was wearing a long skirt and short coat, topped by a floral hat. ‘We could have been left in the gutter.’ ‘It’s all about status, Court,’ Lancier said looking down the road at the people crossing […]
The Man On The Hill.
The man on the hill Stood up with a torch in his hands Holding it steady, he shone it at the Moon He said that if he turned it off The Moon would be in shadow And no one would see it. I didn’t believe him Until he turned his torch off Although he said […]
‘Twas the night before Christmas.
‘Twas the night before Christmas And Santa Vampire came to town Why should he miss an open invitation To enter every house It wasn’t a mince pie he was after Just a quick bite and then he was gone.
The End Is Nigh: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
People live with their nightmares. Often not telling other people to spare their lives. Blissful ignorance is better than blind panic. A few of us know but we choose to keep it quiet. Especially me. I hadn’t even intended to discover this. All I was out to do was to create a communication device that […]
Limbo City 4: Life In The Dead Lane : a story by: GF Willmetts
Rasda Kepi looked up at the towers of Limbo City. Generally, he was here only for a few minutes with the mourners before returning to Earth. Everyone else had gone and he was still here. His main thought was whether anything had happened to his body like those two other angels. All he could do […]
Temporal Decision: a short story by: GF Willmetts.
‘Why did you call me here?’ Bran whispered in the ear of his companion. ‘You only have to arrange the accident.’ ‘I wanted to listen to his lecture first,’ Lika whispered back. ‘What’s the subject?’ ‘Prolonged temporal induction.’ ‘That’s a bit premature. Grassner never sorted that out.’ ‘If we complete our mission then he won’t.’ […]
Double Vision: A Tale Of Two Whiteys : a Psi-Kicks story by: GF Willmetts
‘Now, Whitey, what you see?’ ‘Everything looks fuzzy.’ ‘Close one eye?’ ‘Which one?’ ‘Not fussy, there’s only a choice of two, dontchaknow?’ ‘Right. I’ll choose right.’ ‘Now what you see?’ ‘Everything looks, like, normal.’ ‘Switch eyes…open right and close left. Now whatchasee?’ ‘It looks…not like normal. Like no one’s cleaned in a week. Smelly. An […]
