David Martin
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David Martin
My short fiction collection Only Shadows Move is available now as a free ebook. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/586326. My story "Spiders" is out now in "Unthology 7" from Unthank Books. Twitter @lordsludge. Photography by Louis Emmett.
My stories
An Ending
The cursor blinks steadily, beating out non-human time without mercy. I break its gaze to look out of the grimy first-floor window. Above the parade...
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This Is A Warning
Walking home, carrying his guitar case, Jed felt the sums of his life adding up to dangerously high numbers, the deadly inertia of a vaguely...
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Spiders
Ten am, and the piledriver behind Rhys’s eyes shows no sign of mercy. Beyond the safety glass, caverns of empty air tumble down and out to where the...
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Returning
YOU cross the park as the evening gathers, the playground is deserted, streetlights spark up orange beyond the trees that veil the main road. You...
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Relic
No-one saw him fall from the sky the night of the strange lights. The lights themselves were only seen by the sleepless, the drunk, the late shift...
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