The Shift

This story is by Sef Churchill and was part of our 2016 Winter Writing Contest. You can find all the Winter Writing Contest stories here. Kes checked the time on her bunk ceiling. Shift change. She swung her feet off the sleepmat and straight into her shoes on the cold floor. Spaceworker regulations said to…

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The perfect scar

by Sef Churchill The physicians couldn’t find a mark on her. They searched and searched, inspecting the baby girl with magnifying glasses while the anxious mother waited, but there was no scar anywhere.   The Queen wept, and the doctors advised her to hold her child now, while she could.   *   Hyacinth met the…

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