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Moon Dust
"A short and brutal sci-fi thriller with an emotional twist of an ending. [...] I’m still recovering. Read this." — L.N. Holmes, author of The Floating Castle
An underground lab. A dead scientist. A mysterious machine he was trying to destroy.
Syd didn’t think things could get worse than being the reluctant leader of her own crime family—which she hates. That was before she found the dead body of Dani, the lead chemist of the family’s underground lab, and next to him, a mysterious machine he tried to hammer down.
According to her late father’s notes, it’s a time machine, and Dani used it to steal the recipe for moon dust, a highly addictive drug that made the family’s fortune.
Except Dani didn’t only bring a recipe back from the future. He also brought back a deadly pathogen that’s killing everyone underground.
Moon Dust is a gritty thriller with sci-fi and horror elements in a huis-clos setting that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
An underground lab. A dead scientist. A mysterious machine he was trying to destroy.
Syd didn’t think things could get worse than being the reluctant leader of her own crime family—which she hates. That was before she found the dead body of Dani, the lead chemist of the family’s underground lab, and next to him, a mysterious machine he tried to hammer down.
According to her late father’s notes, it’s a time machine, and Dani used it to steal the recipe for moon dust, a highly addictive drug that made the family’s fortune.
Except Dani didn’t only bring a recipe back from the future. He also brought back a deadly pathogen that’s killing everyone underground.
Moon Dust is a gritty thriller with sci-fi and horror elements in a huis-clos setting that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
- GenresScience FictionAdult
35 pages, ebook
First published September 15, 2025
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Millie Abecassis
7 books55 followersMillie Abecassis is a French-American author of adult speculative fiction born and raised in France. She is the founder and host of #SmallPitch, a pitch event centered on independent presses, and the co-founder of the Small Spec Book Awards. Besides writing, Millie works in the biotech industry, has two cats, and loves playing video games whenever she has the time between two manuscripts.
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October 4, 2025
So short but so fun !
Really loved the tone, I heard every character’s voices in my head while reading it.
Loved the story and the genres mixing !
Once again, Millie hits the mark !
Really loved the tone, I heard every character’s voices in my head while reading it.
Loved the story and the genres mixing !
Once again, Millie hits the mark !
September 16, 2025
Fun, fast-paced sci-fi novelette!
October 22, 2025
Moon Dust is a short and brutal sci-fi thriller with an emotional twist of an ending. If you’re craving a story about drug production on colonized Mars, complete with technology such as teleporters and maybe even a time machine, then this is the story for you. Syd, the protagonist, is a pragmatic and unforgiving crime boss who has been handed her father’s empire, but her goal in the story might surprise you. As a deadly pathogen is unleashed, the crime boss's family is left scrambling on how exactly to do damage control. Moon Dust will keep you guessing about how far Syd will go to enact her secret schemes, and that’s exactly what I liked about it.
That ending was such a somber gut punch. I’m still recovering. Read this.
That ending was such a somber gut punch. I’m still recovering. Read this.
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