Today I return to the excellent web site Flash Fiction Online to recommend two more of their science fiction stories. This time around my job has been much easier thanks to Jake, the editor of Flash Fiction Online, who very kindly emailed me a list of science fiction stories available on the site. Kudos to all the staff at Flash Fiction Online for a job well done – I know I plan on returning many more times!
A musician moves to a quiet planet inhabited by small aliens so that he can finish his concerto. Hmm… perhaps he should have learned more about how the aliens communicate before going there.
Read Quiet, Please! online for free.
In the colorful future created by science fiction, robots often perform a variety of duties – usually stuff that humans don’t want to do anymore. In this story Winston Sinclair meets a robot which has the most unusual job I’ve ever seen: delivering apologies to people!
Read Apologies All Around online for free.
Have a great weekend!
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Thanks for the link, Rusty!
You can also listen to “Apologies All Around”, narrated in Norm Sherman’s inimitable style, on The Drabblecast:
http://bit.ly/2dhyNx
His production of it actually changes the flavor of the story quite a bit, without changing a single word. Very well done.
Regards,
Jake
Jake,
Thanks for the link to the audio version – I’ll have to check it out because it sounds like it is really well done.