Written and read by Kimberly Rockwell Text of the story: Mitigation Translation When the alien transmission arrived, every senior analyst agreed on one thing: it was a threat.The syntax was sharp. The cadence hostile. The verbs clearly aggressive.But the youngest linguist in the room saw the anomaly—a single word that refused to align. “Trixdadhl” didn’t…
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A short story about a new life for a weapon of war long after they were abandoned on a foreign planet. This is a microfiction from a longer short story by L. Stephanie Tait Written and read by L. Stephanie Tait Text of the story: Transformation The last thing she’d remembered was destruction.But as her…
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Trigger and content warning for discussions of genocide, massacres, warfare, murder (including murder of family members) and use of chemical weapons. These are mentioned without graphic details. A short speculative fiction audio story by L. Stephanie Tait. Read by Kimberly Rockwell. King Vusaad sits on his throne, in his empty kingdom, and muses on his…
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