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 / All genres10–18 of 30 stories

A masked festival bearer in a straw coat stands covered in folded white ribbons at dusk.

Horror4 min read

The Feast of White Ribbons

The village ties its regrets to a man in a straw coat. Caro recognizes his shoes.

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A conservator examines fresh blue paint on the back of a canvas beside a closed studio door.

Thriller4 min read

The Price of the Blue

A dead painter's signature is still wet. Luz follows the blue paint into the service corridor.

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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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A pale moth with a human-like eye between its wings rests beneath a harsh streetlamp.

Horror4 min read

The Mercy of the Moths

The city has replaced every pool of darkness with light. The moths are finding somewhere else to hide.

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A worker's hand grips a dented ballot-box handle beside a sealed envelope in a voting room.

Thriller4 min read

For Your Trouble

Everyone trusts Bess to count the ballots. The envelope on her desk contains a month's wages.

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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 snowbound hut's stove glows beside an open ledger and a climber's damp gloves.

Horror4 min read

The Name We Burned

A mountain hut offers shelter from the storm. Its fire needs something the guests can name.

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A key, a red shopping bag and donation envelopes lie beneath the lone lamp of a dark office.

Thriller4 min read

The Third Key

Tessa still has the key to the release fund's office. Her daughter is being transferred in the morning.

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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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Transmissions

The Feast of White Ribbons

The Price of the Blue

The Weight of a Citizen

The Mercy of the Moths

For Your Trouble

A World Small Enough to Save

The Name We Burned

The Third Key

The Last Private Room

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