Category Archives: milliFiction

milliFiction is our name for short works of fiction under 1000 words in length. We will include milliFiction here from invited authors. © Copyright in each story remains with the author, all rights reserved.

An Android Wakes Part 8 : To Kill a Mockingbird

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Mike French

I got the letter this morning from one of the big five. This is the ms they accepted. To Kill a Mockingbird Machine wash at 40 degrees on a fast spin.  Wash separately. Iron. It’s going to be published as … Continue reading →

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Postcard From The Future #10

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Douglas Thompson

Our final postcard from the future comes from Professor Saul Deveraux himself, inventor of the Retro-Temporal acceleration technology being deployed at Geneva’s ‘Even Larger Hadron Collider’ to send messages back in time… * I hope you’ve enjoyed the previous nine … Continue reading →

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An Android Wakes Part 7 : OAP Extraction

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Mike French

Mr Cricklewood ran his fingers over the paper. Raising the letter to his nose he breathed in and let the smell transport him to bluebells, birdsong, young love.       Sighing he replaced the letter in the envelope, slipped it back with … Continue reading →

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Postcard From The Future #9

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Douglas Thompson

This month’s postcard from the future comes from an information technology technician… * Everybody in the past thought we’d be building robots here in the future, didn’t they? Well, you got that kind of half right and half wrong I … Continue reading →

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An Android Wakes Part 6 : Is That a Fish in Your Eye?

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Mike French

He was watching Master Chef when it appeared over his retina. At first his brain miscalculated and inserted the angel fish into the programme, where it swam through the steaming crust of the Mockingbird pie. Then after a moment the … Continue reading →

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Postcard From The Future #8

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Douglas Thompson

This month’s postcard from the future comes from a 23rd century policeman… * A message to the past, eh? Tell you what, I’ve always loved reading detective novels and I’m kind of envious of you guys back then with real … Continue reading →

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An Android Wakes Part 5 : The Amazing Arctic Sinking Man

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Mike French

No-one would believe him but Albert Mockingbird had discovered the elusive Hawking Particles whilst visiting his great aunt at Scunthorpe. He’d spotted them next to her bed floating with her false teeth. He could recall the precise eureka moment with … Continue reading →

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Postcards From The Future #7

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Douglas Thompson

This month’s postcard from the future comes from a 23rd century medical practitioner…  * My area of speciality is the old, or Senetics as we call it, a word which will be unfamiliar to you people of the past, if … Continue reading →

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Letters from America (Part 2)

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Christopher Nuttall

I will not bore you with a transcript of what had to be the strangest council of war in the history of the British Empire.  Did Drake know that the world had turned upside down when he prepared to face … Continue reading →

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An Android Wakes Part 4 : The Locust Wife

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Mike French

Her chest rises and falls marking out time with the movement of air, muscle: the unbidden will to live. Before her the door is bricked in, the window boarded and sealed, the old lime wall drunk on carbon dioxide. Around … Continue reading →

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