Author
Kevin Pickett
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This is Kevin's third story to appear in Daily Science Fiction.
Sticks and Stones
I watched the boy lift the faux-fur lined hood of his Parka coat up around his red-cheeked face and pull the weather-beaten door closed behind him. The wind pushed against his tiny frame as he hurried along the sloping grass embankment outside the short row of council houses.…
Bedtime Story
"You understand why you are here, GS371?" The dual-ribbon lighting tubes on the ceiling glinted brightly off its chrome skull as the droid lifted its ovoid face to the voice of its creator and nodded. "Good. Then things will be easier for both of us." Professor Duuorfski turned…
Diatra
The outer flesh of the Diatra vessel was roasting; the stretched sleek surface popping and crackling; blisters bursting with fountains of green photo-cell blood which vaporized as it fell towards the blazing sun. "I am Diatra." The strange voice echoed inside the ship and the…