Beneath the bridge
you can dream of the river
and you can dream of the road
while never letting either
lead you astray
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Notes:
1. Written on August 21st, 2026
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Malaise
I used to be excited by the world itself
the world in general
the world entire
Now I’m excited
by nothing
all
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Notes:
1. Written on August 21st, 2026
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It used to be you could find an audience on the internet
by making stuff for people to look at
And if they liked it, then maybe
they’d sometimes come back for more
Now no one looks at anything on the internet at all
and they certainly don’t like it
And the only things that come back for more
are the insatiable robots we’ve built
that’ll eat it all up
eat everything all up
again and again and again
So they can vomit it back up later
half misremembered and all incoherent
to save us the pain of ever having to see
what was originally said
in its own time
and place
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Notes:
1. Written on July 18th, 2026
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A Book Of Small Science Fiction is a little book (50 pages, 15000 words) that contains 181 short (often very short) science fiction stories, scenes, vignettes, ideas, vague thoughts, and occasionally poems, one written every day so far this year (up to June 30th).
I wrote these rather than keeping a diary this year, so there’s no continuity between tales, no structural choices in the placement of the stories. They’re all just presented in the order they were written, day after day after day.
(There’s some slight repetitions here that could probably have been condensed into one, and couple of others that would probably have been better off left on the page of my notebook entirely, but I’ve included all of them as a commitment to the project).
The second part, containing 184 small stories, will be released at the end of the year (if I manage to keep up writing one every day to an acceptable standard (which hopefully i will)).
Downlaod the pdf: A Book Of Small Science Fiction (part one)
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Notes:
1. Written between January 1st and June 30th, 2026
2. One story a day
3. There’ll be a small selection of these small science fictions posted here in a bit
4. But not any of the ones that have weird formatting
5. Because I lack the will of trying to force wordpress to cope with anything beyond standard paragraph breaks and line formatting.
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If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my patreon or my ko-fi. Patreon subscribers get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.(Ko-fi contributors probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). Thank you!Tales From The Town #234: Oubliette (or the old gaol cell beneath the town hall you can go and visit on the weekends)
They left us here to waste away
until even our own families had forgotten us.
No records exist
of who we were
But the walls remember
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Notes:
1. Written on May 13th, 2026
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