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Starting Point: Any Difference That Makes No Difference…
It was on a Thursday, in 1976, that I selected to visit. My parents and brother were out and I was home, alone. That’s when I chose to visit myself. Insert rant about how the English language is ill...
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Starting Point: Intellects Vast and Cute
Doctors Perez and Smith threw eachother an awkward celebratory high five and missed. It didn’t dampen their spirits, and they cheered with delight at the test results graphically displayed on the...
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Story Idea: Atom By Atom
The following idea was sent to us by Scott McKeown. Thanks Scott! I love the absurdity of this idea, and the many opportunities for situational comedy it presents. Scott writes… Please feel free to...
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Starting Point: Transpersonation
This week’s story starting point was sent to us by Nathan Nichols. Thank you Nate, this is some excellent science-fictioning right here! “So…so explain this to me one more time,” I said, nervously...
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Starting Point: Distress Call
I pushed the ‘end-call’ button, enjoyed a moment’s silence, and dialled again. The simple notes of Retro-Com’s signature dialling theme once again began to sing in my ear. The tune had now crossed the...
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Featured Story: They Returned
In July we shared a writing prompt titled “Starting Point: The Return”. Picking up where the starting point left off, Vanessa Ravencroft has continued the story. Here is the fruit of her labours… The...
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Featured Story: The Battle of Grettsburg
This story was sent to us by long-time SciFi Ideas acolyte Vincente Tellez. It was inspired by (and begins with) an original ‘story starting point’ written by Johnathan Richardson, which we shared back...
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Starting Point: Artemis
I’ve spent the entire of my adult life aboard the Actaeon. I was twenty years old when we departed from Earth, and I spent the morning of my twenty first birthday waving goodbye to the moon as we...
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Featured Story: G-G-Ghosts
This story was sent to us by long-time SciFi Ideas acolyte Vincente Tellez. It was inspired by (and begins with) an original ‘story starting point’ written by Mark Ball, which we shared back in March....
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Starting Point: The Oracle
As we came to the top of the staircase my stomachs began to twitch and dance in anxious anticipation. This was the end of my long journey, and soon I would have the answers I was seeking. But what if...
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Starting Point: Hall of the Ancestors
Meliko felt his young son’s hand twitch with excitement as they approached the old citadel. The long walk from the town always tired the boy, but he grew stronger – and a little taller – with each...
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Starting Point: The Elite
My name is Neil Renard, though you probably know me as VND01-15-01. Contrary to popular belief I was born human, to human parents in the industrial city of Falcon Scott, Antarctica. I received no...
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Starting Point: Family Trees
Daddy’s gone. He got infected, I don’t know when. He left two nights ago. We found a note on the kitchen table saying not to go look for him, but we found him in Autie Jayne’s garden. He’d buried his...
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