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Vanna’s War (conclusion)
The missile hissed as it hurtled through the air towards the drone, colliding with the shield and exploding just like the first one had. For a split second, the drone did seem confused, its tracking beams moving wildly in all … Continue reading
Vanna’s War (part 2)
Vanna had been forced to trade her rifle to Lukas for an SAM. Lukas was the team’s best shot, Deirdre had argued, and she needed Vanna to help confuse the drone. After the first shots, the drone would swoop in … Continue reading
Vanna’s War
Vanna peered out from between the leaves of the tree, over the jungle to the South. Dark clouds. A storm was coming up from the plains. It would come in hard tonight, one of the big, heavy storms that kept … Continue reading
0sl0: Employment
The trap was simple, as all the best traps are in the end. Too much complexity just means more things to go wrong, more people involved who could talk, and more weak points for the enemy to attack. Simplicity was … Continue reading
A Few Billion Years
We were so close. I’m sure we were. I think we were. I like to believe we were. I suppose it doesn’t matter really. Whether you miss it by minutes or hours or a few billion years, if you don’t … Continue reading
Maria (part 3)
Daniel winced in pain as Beth Cambridge helped him into one of the odd chair-bench furniture pieces in front of a console. The bridge (Maria had been insistent that this must be the bridge/command deck/whatever) was now full of people looking … Continue reading
To Serve and Protect
Stop joking around! You can’t take pictures of them! It’s not a laughing matter. I know you’ve been out of the country for awhile but trust me. Photos, video, even voice recording will get you in trouble. They don’t fuck … Continue reading
Eyes
“It’s amazing,” he said, “Uncanny. How do you get them like that?” Molly sighed. The conversation had been going so well. “It’s natural. Freak accident of birth,” she explained. “No way. No gene-splicing at all?” He was Centaurian, which meant … Continue reading
Sid Seeks Alexis
Every other day it seemed, I would see the ad in the classifieds. It was a small, unusual little ad. It said: Sid Seeks Alexis 3500.1938.0916 Soon It had been going on for a few years. When I first saw … Continue reading
Sand
[Few pages of an idea I’ve been toying with. I’ve got a map, a pile of notes, and these pages of story. Maybe I’ll go further with it eventually. Though the list of projects I’ll “get to one day” is … Continue reading
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Fred Hesser 