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    Little Labyrinths: Speculative Microfictions
    Little Labyrinths: Speculative Microfictions
    Little Labyrinths: Speculative Microfictions
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    Little Labyrinths: Speculative Microfictions

    By Sean Williams

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    Matter transporters, dead worlds, and ghostly encounters. Parallel worlds, time-travel, and dangers that lurk in the shadows. 

    Little Labyrinths brings together 17 vignettes and microfictions from one of Australia's premier authors of science fiction and fantasy. Collected together for the first time, these brief tales and startling asides cover territory that is playful, experimental, and infused with speculative wonder. Once dubbed Australia's King of Genre Fiction, Williams' work will remind you of the strange, exciting, and mysterious pleasures that come from losing yourself in the smallest stories. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrain Jar Press
    Release dateNov 22, 2021
    ISBN9781922479150
    Little Labyrinths: Speculative Microfictions
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    Sean Williams

    Sean Williams is a girl dad to his two daughters, Davynn and Cameron, and a boy dad to his son, Ethan. He is also the founder and CEO of The Dad Gang, a conscious social community of dads on a mission to redefine, revolutionize, and reshape the image of Black fatherhood. Visit him and other dope dads online at www.thedadgang.com.

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      Little Labyrinths - Sean Williams

      Little Labyrinths

      Little Labyrinths

      Speculative Microfictions

      Sean Williams

      Brain Jar Press

      PO Box 6687

      Upper Mt Gravatt, QLD, 4122

      Australia

      www.BrainJarPress.com

      This edition Copyright © 2021 by Sean Williams. An extension of this copyright page can be found on page 46-47.

      The moral right of Sean Williams to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Cover design by Brain Jar Press

      Cover Image: The Truth is Somewher Near, Dennis Svitkin/Shutterstock

      ISBN: 978-1-922479-15-0 (Ebook) | 978-1-922479-14-3 (Paperback)

      Contents

      Uber

      The Misadventures of Tom Jones, Time Traveller

      Tears Of The Living Dead

      The Goggle

      The Empire’s Son

      The Trilerbe Dulciftify

      Seeking the Great Current

      The Other Forty-two

      Synecdoche

      Tall Tales About Today My Great-Great-Granddaughter Will Tell

      The Rise And Fall Of Neologopolis

      The Winter Gardener

      Immaterial Progress

      New Songs for Kate

      The Dark Matters

      Loopholes in Light

      A Better Place

      About the Author

      Also by Sean Williams

      Thank You For Buying This Brain Jar Press Ebook

      Uber

      Hop in, mate.

      I double-checked the app. My driver was supposedly Edward in a white Camry. His photo matched, but if the car had ever been white, it wasn’t now. Down the passenger side trailed what looked like giant claw marks.

      Seriously?

      Just superficial. Tom, is it?

      It seemed wrong to send him packing, and besides, that would hurt my ranking.

      The interior of the car was little better than the exterior, smelling of molten plastic and covered in what looked suspiciously like ash.

      Forgive the mess, mate. Been a bad day.

      Edward looked oddly familiar, but I couldn’t place him. He was bearded, weathered, and dressed in camo gear.

      Cosplay? I ventured. Fury Road, perhaps.

      Edward grinned. He was missing a tooth. I know what that is. Drove a bunch home from Comic-Con last month. They were a riot.

      We pulled away from the curb, the screen on Edward’s app guiding him through the suburban streets, heading for the city. His phone was a model I didn’t recognize, with a crack right across its face.

      You haven’t figured it out yet, Edward said, looking at me sideways as he drove.

      If it’s not cosplay, you’ve had a really bad day.

      A bad life, mate, he said. But that’s not what I’m talking about. Where you’ve seen me before.

      I turned to face him front on. How… ?

      You’ll know how when you know why. As to the car… well, people like me, we come from the edges, where it’s thin. Reality, I mean. Some of us go back and forth, world to world. It’s not as hard as you think…

      He took a corner and I took a hard look at him. Edward seemed the kind of guy who might catch, kill, and clean an animal with his bare hands but wouldn’t waste time burdening a stranger with his brand of crazy.

      You’re having me on.

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