Category Archives: Short Story

Elder of the Conclave (cont.)

Posted on September 4, 2018 by fredhesser

[I’m back! This is a continuation of this story. I doubt I’ll return to this little universe, at least for a long while, but I fell out of the habit of writing for awhile and wanted to get back into … Continue reading →

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Jane’s War (part 5)

Posted on April 24, 2018 by fredhesser

Jane (23.2.120.3) woke and stretched. She spent some time trying to work a kink out of her arm before remembering that particular arm wasn’t there anymore. She looked about for her arm. It was on the nightstand, and she had … Continue reading →

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Long ago

Posted on April 16, 2018 by fredhesser

Long ago, in the days when there were still fish in the oceans and cars on the roads, there lived a woman who was not afraid of governments destroying us. It had nearly happened, she knew that, but that was … Continue reading →

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Jane’s War (part 4)

Posted on February 19, 2018 by fredhesser

Connecting to the soldier’s implants digitally was almost trivial. The hard part was the actual manipulation of data. For obvious reasons, the implants were designed to resist this exact sort of tampering. Covering her tracks was time consuming as well. … Continue reading →

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The Fleet [Up the Spine]

Posted on February 7, 2018 by fredhesser

Getting from Hab to the Spine is easy in theory. Just keep going up until you get to the doors labeled “Warning: Low Gravity Zone.” Theories are treacherous things. The gravity starts getting weaker pretty much immediately once you’re out … Continue reading →

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Jane’s War (part 3)

Posted on January 1, 2018 by fredhesser

The extraction took seven hours. Much quicker than Jane had expected. Accessing military implants was no easy task. Any wrong move could set off the sensors meant to detect tampering and slag the implant, which usually made the extraction a … Continue reading →

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Jane’s War (part 2)

Posted on September 25, 2017 by fredhesser

Jane examined her tools. They were hers, not just whatever was in surplus. Somebody had gone up to the dormitories and taken her tools from her belongings. Jane had to remind herself that it was a breach of her privacy. … Continue reading →

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Jane’s War (part 1)

Posted on September 12, 2017 by fredhesser

Jane (23.2.120.3) flexed her new fingers. It wasn’t her first artificial limb, she already had a replacement leg from the knee down. But she never thought much about the responsiveness or flexibility of her leg. It simply wasn’t something she … Continue reading →

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Elder of the Conclave

Posted on August 7, 2017 by fredhesser

(a short little scene I wrote while brainstorming a science fiction setting) The Gorgon Fleet was making another run at the warp gate. This would be their third run within the last year. “We have firing solutions locked in on … Continue reading →

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Alirio’s War (conclusion)

Posted on July 13, 2017 by fredhesser

Alirio hurried down the concrete passage, ostensibly following Koya though there was nowhere to go but straight ahead. Koya had ignored a few dozen identical metal doors that lined the halls down here, below the Taskmaster’s compound. Between them, Jean … Continue reading →

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