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 genres19–27 of 30 stories

A large curved fragment lies in a geologist's sample tray beside a drilling site.

Horror4 min read

Below the Foundations

The drill brings up a fingernail from ninety metres below. The site manager calls it a shell.

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Two separate documents face a care worker across an office desk, with a care-home corridor beyond.

Thriller4 min read

A Good Reference

Gwen has prepared Frances's witness statement and her job reference. She wants both read before noon.

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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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A shoe print pressed into a concrete stair beside a courier's shoe and delivery bag, with an intercom on the wall.

Horror4 min read

The Missing Step

One delivery. Fourteen floors. The service stairs should be the quickest way up.

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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 green industrial door with wired glass beside a camera tripod in a dim factory annex.

Thriller5 min read

Until Someone Says Cut

For her first paid acting job in months, Jo only has to keep a door closed.

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A greyhound wearing a blue collar sits in a worn armchair beside a low fire.

Horror5 min read

A Place by the Fire

Rae comes home to find a greyhound in her father's chair. Her mother says he is settling in.

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An anniversary table set for two, with wine and brandy glasses in a dim private dining room.

Thriller4 min read

Between the Two of Them

Twenty-eight years married. A private dinner. A waitress caught between them.

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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

Below the Foundations

A Good Reference

The Life Between Two Questions

The Missing Step

The Air Has a Name

Until Someone Says Cut

A Place by the Fire

Between the Two of Them

All the Summers Between

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