Category: Writing
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Short Story: Mimic
Mimic by Richard Holliday 790 Words The subtle whirr of electric motors beguiled whether you were talking to a human or one of them. There was a day long ago when the assurance the person in front of you was a human was unnecessary. Absolute. Unquestionable. Who else could it be? Looking around the streets…
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Rememories Released!
It’s with great pleasure that I can announce today that my edited short story collection Rememories is officially released on the Kindle store! Rememories is a collection of the short stories I wrote during 2013. They’re mainly classical science fiction adventure and space opera stories but there’s a few more “conceptual” ones hidden in there…
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Short Story: Purity
Purityby Richard Holliday 1,096 words The concourse of the Panopticon heaved under the footfall of a hundred thousand anonymous travellers. Each moved silently through the grand transit station that evening, silently worming their way toward the trains and trams bound for final destinations across the distant country. Each mind was pre-occupied with the journey ahead…