Makeshift Stories Original Science Fiction

The Last Days of Darkness

Ajit, a fourth generation resident of the arcology GBT Ellesmere, is tasked with the job of clearing out old documents and by accident stumbles upon some disturbing information that is not found in the official digital record.

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Canis Major

Loyalty, according to Wikipedia, is  the “faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause.” In this month’s story loyalty comes in many flavours as an aging pack of genetically modified space faring canines embark on what could be thei…

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A Perfect Life

Arthur C. Clark’s famous third law of prediction states that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” But is understanding how something works any more important than the ultimate outcome it produces?

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Forty-five Minutes

Choices, we all have choices in our lives which are not always easy to make. We are never able to predict how they will turn out. Does our fear of the unknowable doom us to a paradigm where we end up making the same choice again hoping for a different …

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Driven

A retired software quality control engineer is pressed back into service by the agency that pays his for his room and board to help recover the money that agency the spends on him. He quickly discovers that he has been thrust into an unusual situation,…

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The Last Big Idea

Laura Mackenzie, an energetic late nineteenth century entrepreneur, struggles to introduce a new technology that will shape the next century and realize her dreams. Caught the politics of the day she must a radical choice. –        

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The Prediction

Two friends find themselves on opposite sides of a prediction that, if correct will become the opportunity to see a once in a lifetime astronomical event, and if wrong could spell disaster for the world. –        

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Finder

On a world only 20 lights from earth a colony of humans have mostly learned to live with the Aliens who arrived on the planet at the same time. But over the course of generations friction has begun to emerge and for Narvon a series of recent accidents…

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Lifeline

While investigating an anomaly in the size of the information packets being sent from a commercial project on Mars, Yara an engineer, discovers a hidden signal which turns out to be something unexpected, that forces her into a choice she does not want …

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The Wondering City

Two recent immigrants to a new colony world find it unexpectedly difficult to make ends meet until one of them wins a trip for two to seven exotic worlds. While on the trip they meet an alien who challenges their understanding of history and gives them…

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