The Mistress
by Dea Parkin

I'm thinking about going on strike. My mistress won't feed me Sheba, won't fit a cat-flap and she's started going out and leaving me alone.

 

Well, she won't like it if I don't put my head on her lap and purr, or if I refuse to eat the stuff she puts in front of me. "Eight out of 10 cats would prefer this," she says, trying to soothe me and patting my head. Well, eight out of 10 humans no doubt love steak and kidney pud above all else, but what about the other...

This is an extract from my novella. "Going Back (The Moon Can't Wait)" which came out today in my new book, "The Moon Can't Wait" which is available from Lulu.com, £9.95.

It is a science fiction mystery thriller to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings and to coincide with the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change.


Friday 1200 Zulu
“We’ve lost contact with South Pole Base.”
This was big news. I could only speculate why Mission Director Lavrov was telling me...

Black and White by Nicky J Poole (04/04/2009 13:43:35)


It’s black and everywhere is white.

Or is it white and everywhere is black?

I can’t figure it out. It’s black everywhere and it’s white everywhere.

I look up and it’s black. I look in the distance and it’s dark, nothing is clear, but white specks are floating into my vision. They scurry, form shapes, re-form and disappear, only to be replaced by more phantom figures. I look down and it’s white everywhere. My feet...

Vacuum by Nicky J Poole (07/03/2009 10:51:41)

(Space colonists fear only one thing.)


The stars jabbed out of the blackness of infinity from every direction. They were above and, as above, so below. They were to port as to starboard and ahead as aft. They freckled the face of the endless night and tried to pierce the eyes of the lovers, but the lovers only had eyes for each other.

Albion was looking into Roxette’s eyes with keen adoration as she was telling him the news of the...