Tag: short stories
-
Short Story: Traffic
Trafficby Richard Holliday 1,888 words Fans whirred in the server hall. It was raining outside but here the weather never faltered from a dry warmth. The detritus of packing crates filled the floor. In ill-fitting, standard issue navy-blue jumpers, a couple of technicians unplugged their diagnostics equipment and stood back, with one’s finger poised above…
-
Short Story: Epicentre
Epicentre by Richard Holliday 4,281 words Through the window in the cabin of the airliner to the right lay the Irish Sea, glistening in the morning sunlight and refracting it into pretty sparkles. Across the aisle and through the opposite window to the left was the muddy green of the ground below. This was fast…
-
Short Story: Colour Blind
Colour Blind by Richard Holliday 1,611 words Neophytes aren’t born as such, rather they’re gestated then emerge into the wilderness that is the world. They start their lives very much as they will continue them – as an incomparable bond of chromosomes and machined parts. Nothing more, nothing less. The sentinels of what’s left of…
Richard Holliday - Author 