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 genres55–63 of 90 stories

A serene woman sits beside her puzzled husband in a small stone mountain shrine.

Horror4 min read

Blessed Beyond Measure

Sabine returns from the mountain shrine filled with joy. Nothing can make that joy leave her.

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A wet-clay-coloured coat is folded into a canvas bag beside a small gold ring.

Thriller4 min read

Something in Your Size

Orla says the shop expects theft. Willa has already taken something her friend does not know about.

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A small fusion lamp rests wrapped in a coat on a starship market counter.

Sci-Fi4 min read

The Stars in the Inventory

Yara sells miniature fusion lamps as lamps. When the ship needs their fuel, some owners are giving up more than a light.

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An intact boiled egg sits on a quiet breakfast table while an older man reads a leaflet.

Horror4 min read

The Sound of Being Close

After forty years of marriage, Marcel's familiar sounds begin to change. Distance only makes the new ones clearer.

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A briefcase and a paper agreement wait in an abandoned dispatch office beside loose cord.

Thriller4 min read

An Amount You Can Carry

Jago wants the missing page of an old agreement. Perrin keeps offering money instead.

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A surveying instrument faces a comet's ice wall and a faint plume of particles.

Sci-Fi5 min read

A Sky Without Residuals

Mair's survey becomes clearer with every pass. Her assistant asks what the measurements are removing.

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A bitten apple and dental plate on a tray in a modest clinic, with an older woman reflected in the mirror.

Horror4 min read

The Good Teeth

Vera can finally bite into an apple again. Her grandson is suddenly hungry all the time.

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A recorder and blue-bordered papers between two women at an interview table, with a minibus beyond the blinds.

Thriller4 min read

The Interpreter's Chair

The interview is supposed to establish consent. The translation has already been written.

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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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Transmissions

Blessed Beyond Measure

Something in Your Size

The Stars in the Inventory

The Sound of Being Close

An Amount You Can Carry

A Sky Without Residuals

The Good Teeth

The Interpreter's Chair

The Layover

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