Short fiction / Liminal ManifoldHigher dimensions repository

Transmissions

Horror, thriller and science fiction.
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Original short stories
Three to five minutes

Newest first / Sci-Fi1–9 of 10 stories

A solitary passenger in a terminal waiting room, watched through an overnight diagnostic display.

Sci-Fi4 min read

The Layover

The arrival log says Amina made her connection. Another version of her is still waiting.

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A communications technician listens at a ship terminal while a child sits beside a tray of seedlings.

Sci-Fi4 min read

The Sound of Home Arriving

Rafi receives his mother's voice in monthly fragments. The rest of the message is already aboard.

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A weather keeper stands beside a glass pressure lens holding a small storm in a dry museum gallery.

Sci-Fi4 min read

The Museum of Weather

Moss has kept the same afternoon's storm alive for forty-four years. The museum has found a buyer.

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A woman in a powered support frame faces the long ceremonial floor of a citizenship office.

Sci-Fi4 min read

The Weight of a Citizen

Citizenship is eight steps away. Suri has been told to leave her support frame behind.

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An old computing cabinet stands in a cramped apartment hallway, its terminal showing a small town at dusk.

Sci-Fi4 min read

A World Small Enough to Save

Inez inherits a house, its debts, and a failing processor. Twenty-three thousand people live inside it.

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A scanning instrument rests against layers of yellow-painted plaster in a family kitchen.

Sci-Fi4 min read

The Last Private Room

The walls remember Imani's mother singing. They also remember a conversation the authorities want to hear.

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An alien ambassador with green-gold arm membranes waits beside a diplomatic office window.

Sci-Fi4 min read

The Life Between Two Questions

Sev needs an answer before the afternoon changes colour. Tobin has not read the biology briefing.

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Fine branching structures suspended inside a laboratory air chamber, with an unfamiliar landscape beyond.

Sci-Fi5 min read

The Air Has a Name

Before the settlers can breathe, someone has to decide what is in the air.

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A young woman in a clinical bed faces an older man beside her, with a large tree branch against the window.

Sci-Fi4 min read

All the Summers Between

Ada went to sleep until there was a cure. Outside her window, the sapling has grown.

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Transmissions

The Layover

The Sound of Home Arriving

The Museum of Weather

The Weight of a Citizen

A World Small Enough to Save

The Last Private Room

The Life Between Two Questions

The Air Has a Name

All the Summers Between

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