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Parallel Worlds: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories
Parallel Worlds celebrates Science Fiction and Fantasy as the genre of ideas, with 27 tales of exploration, adventure, and love. Inside this volume you will find space horror and cyberpunk, stories of transformation and acceptance.
In Sounds for Crustaceans, originally published in Fantasy Magazine, the protagonist discovers they are turning into a crab and seeks acceptance and understanding from their partner in a painful story about finding ourselves and treating the world with kindness.
In Hard Memory, our protagonist is a detective in search of a hacker who spreads depression throughout the city with electrical emotional manipulation, but finds something much darker in the process.
In Mycelium Dreams, the sole survivor of a shuttle’s alien fungal infection converses with the thing which killed his crew and tries to understand the motivations of something which has a different understanding of life itself.
The stories in this collection are all interspersed with tiny drabbles - stories themselves in small, 100-word snippets.
Inside you will
1. Alien Taxidermy and Love Have Four Things in Common
2. A Taste for Pine
3. Hard Memory
4. Tell Me a Story, Teasy
5. Reflection
6. From Airlock to Eternity
7. Fancy and Fish Hearts
8. For Fear of the Long Night
9. I Grow
10. Sounds for Crustaceans
11. Masters of the Day
12. Memory and Steel
13. The Visitor
14. Hope for Enthos
15. Mittens and the Death Moth
16. The Psychic Fish Hates You
17. The Hikaru Defense Project
18. The Legend of Johnny C
19. To the Water Goes My Pain
20. A Wet and Stinking Cavern
21. Mycelium Dreams
22. An Ocean of Souls
23. To Fly on Gentle Wings
24. For Our First Date I Dressed In Red
25. Bone and Acid and Rushing Waves
26. You Can Let Me In
27. A Mark Deeper Than Flesh
In Sounds for Crustaceans, originally published in Fantasy Magazine, the protagonist discovers they are turning into a crab and seeks acceptance and understanding from their partner in a painful story about finding ourselves and treating the world with kindness.
In Hard Memory, our protagonist is a detective in search of a hacker who spreads depression throughout the city with electrical emotional manipulation, but finds something much darker in the process.
In Mycelium Dreams, the sole survivor of a shuttle’s alien fungal infection converses with the thing which killed his crew and tries to understand the motivations of something which has a different understanding of life itself.
The stories in this collection are all interspersed with tiny drabbles - stories themselves in small, 100-word snippets.
Inside you will
1. Alien Taxidermy and Love Have Four Things in Common
2. A Taste for Pine
3. Hard Memory
4. Tell Me a Story, Teasy
5. Reflection
6. From Airlock to Eternity
7. Fancy and Fish Hearts
8. For Fear of the Long Night
9. I Grow
10. Sounds for Crustaceans
11. Masters of the Day
12. Memory and Steel
13. The Visitor
14. Hope for Enthos
15. Mittens and the Death Moth
16. The Psychic Fish Hates You
17. The Hikaru Defense Project
18. The Legend of Johnny C
19. To the Water Goes My Pain
20. A Wet and Stinking Cavern
21. Mycelium Dreams
22. An Ocean of Souls
23. To Fly on Gentle Wings
24. For Our First Date I Dressed In Red
25. Bone and Acid and Rushing Waves
26. You Can Let Me In
27. A Mark Deeper Than Flesh
106 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 20, 2023
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April 22, 2023
Short fiction is fun
Addison is a great short fic writer and this collection is a treat, every one of his stories thoughtful and unique.
Addison is a great short fic writer and this collection is a treat, every one of his stories thoughtful and unique.
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