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Rise of the Fin Folk
“Dolphins are ‘people’ Say Scientists” — A Belfast Telegraph headline today. So, after several hundred years of eating whales and/or boiling them down for lamp oil followed by several decades of study,...
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Aliens Are A Playground
I love building aliens. I love what writer types call ‘world building’ in general. Building strange creatures and settings is an exercise in raw imagination. To me, making stuff like this up, as the...
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Excerpt from ‘The Flowers of Dawn’— Isolation and Other Stories
The Flowers of Dawn is one of the five stories in the Isolation and Other Stories collection. See blurbs for all of the stories and where to find Isolation by clicking here. In this excerpt, the main...
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100 Word Pessioptimistic SFF Short-Short: Missionaries
Missionaries S.A. Barton For centuries, they sent missionary after missionary to help the rising young intelligence see past the biological heritage of survival as battle, to pursue empathy,...
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Snippet: The Spiders Fly
In its center cowered a tiny caricature of ourselves, closer to our ancient spacefaring cousins than to ourselves, but still recognizably relative to both. But it was small, small, a mote that might...
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Two New Stories: He Shot First –and– Waiting For
Available now on Smashwords, and via the distributors in the right sidebar within a week or two of the date on this post. I arrived at that cover art by fiddling around with a picture I took today in...
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The End Of Climate Change — 100 Word Story
The atmosphere’s warming trend slowed suddenly, tapering to a halt in only twenty years. Ocean temperatures shifted their immense inertia to follow suit. The icecaps began to regain weight. The...
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A Couple Of Centuries Makes Aliens
How do those carriages move without horses? HOW DID THOSE LITTLE PEOPLE GET INTO THAT THING YOU CALL "YOUTUBE"!?#FoundingFathersin2016 — S.A. Barton Writes (@Tao23) July 2, 2016 And are these...
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13 Word Story: LGMs
This one probably falls into the realm of science fantasy — but then, people have said that before about a number of things and turned out to be wrong. There have always been fanciful ideas about how...
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King Of The Pantheon?
From a recent visit to the Chrysler Museum of Art. Humans pictured are family, not random passersby. So, we stopped to pay homage to that not-quite-most-modern of gods, Television. Its younger sibling...
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Tweets From Many Futures
2045: Lawsuits fly as artificial pancreases play snack cake ads to recipients. "Why the hell would they put a speaker in a pancreas anyhow?" — Tweetmorrow (@sabartonwrites) September 12, 2017 I used to...
View ArticleSHOCK Star Wars Has Politics And Strong Women And People Of Color And GASP...
(This post first appeared on my Patreon page. Come on by and visit!) I’ve seen, and you’ve probably seen, a certain amount of “alt-right” and company (social injustice warriors, as I think of them)...
View ArticleCrisis Actor Elvis, Waiting For Assignment
Perhaps you’re aware of the various “false flag” theories that mass shootings as in Sandy Hook and Parkland never happened. Of course you are, you’re on the internet enough to have found this little...
View ArticleShort Story Review: What is Eve?
What is Eve? by Will McIntosh appears in the April 2018 issue of Lightspeed Magazine.And before I go farther, spoiler warning: I’m probably going to spoil one reveal or another because A) I *do* want...
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