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 genres73–81 of 90 stories

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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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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Transmissions

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

Below the Foundations

A Good Reference

The Life Between Two Questions

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