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C.M.F. Wright

C.M.F. Wright is a research scientist by day and insomniac writer by night. Her short stories have appeared in Syntax & Salt Magazine, Microfiction Monday, Fifty Word Stories, and the VSS365 Anthology. When she's not writing, she's bemoaning failed lab experiments, binge-reading fantasy, and trying to stop her cantankerous rabbits from initiating World War III. You can find her on Twitter @cmf_wright.

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The Centurion

It's the loathsome vibrance of his skin that clues me in--that, and his strange fascination with clocks. Most Federation aliens have varying degrees of tentacle iridescence, but only centurions possess that strange, almost obsessive preoccupation with time. The morning after she…