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Forever Autumn
One of the songs in the Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds I like the most is called Forever Autumn. It’s about loved ones who aren’t here anymore and works well for any kind of relationship, which is perhaps a large part of why it appeals to me so much. The whole song is…
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After the hack
For years Gareth ran a handful of quiet, low-traffic WordPress sites for friends and community groups. Then a worm got in, and by 2024 he’d lost control of all of them. Two years on, he finally sits down to clear the wreckage and start again, smaller and simpler this time.
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Target
Despite her careful aim the shot failed to register. She ran through the steps, she’d presented her weapon to the target, finding a comfortable and relaxed position from which to shoot. She’d closed her eyes and breathed steadily, loosening her grip and waiting for her body to relax into the position. When she opened her…
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Stenost IV
The Stenost IV Disaster took place on Thursday 11 June 2026. Reports often focus on what happened at 09.33:33 when Stennat Prike disconnected primary suspensor unit seven. However, as with many significant disasters throughout federal history the disconnection, which immediately preceded the destruction of Stenost and the loss of all but seven of its 872,000…
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SRERH7
A piece of fiction: SRERH7 is a subroutine, built to sleep, wake, check a sensor and sleep again, for reasons it was never built to understand. A quietly strange little story about curiosity emerging somewhere it shouldn’t, one sleep cycle at a time. Give the poor thing a notepad, Gareth writes.
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Maintenance
Al’arc knelt quietly by the burned out connection watching the birds as they turned and tumbled in formation in the sky. This was his problem; too easily distracted. But watching the birds filled him with stillness. He couldn’t understand how they did it and watched carefully to see whether one began to turn before the…