A Book Of Small Science Fiction (part one)

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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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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clouds and rain

Clouds
of anxiety
rolling
over me

Who knows when it’ll rain
I just know
that it will

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Notes:

1. Written on February 26th, 2026

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(please stop)

so much of my life
has been spent
attempting to
pacify my
own mind

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Notes

1. Written on February 19th, 2026

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Tales From The Town #231: The Forgotten Vending Machine

Standing sentry outside an abandoned shop
the forgotten vending machine still takes your coins
still dispenses its wares
still waits loyally
day after day
for its old masters to return

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Notes:

1. Written in January 2026

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