The Anthologist - A Collection of Short and Very Short Stories

From divorce ceremonies to planet-eating aliens; from romance under the stars to war between the Greek gods. Taste dozens of other worlds in this collection of short fiction.

For advance access to these stories (often with better formatting),
see https://www.webofworlds.net/pieces

Cover image by Davide Clode:
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SYNOPSES:

SETI In the Age of Loneliness (2020)

Hired to design a logo for an astronomy research group, graphic designer Olivia Suen meets radio astronomer Arzu Rostami. They keep each other company during Arzu's late-night observing run, and learn much more about each other than they expected.

A Vanished City (2020)

A flash fiction piece about a sudden and horrific loss.

On Concurrent Cake Decoration for Divorce Ceremonies (2020)

In Haber, cake decoration takes place during the ceremony, artistically incorporating events and symbols important to the couple. Lesha is the cake artist at a divorce ceremony where a clash of cultures results in disaster.

The world is flat (2018)

"The world is flat."
Granddad says this all the time. So we buy tickets to space.

Some kind of trout (2018)

The alien fish was minding her own business when a fissure opened in the ice above her, and she was sucked unceremoniously upward.

Before the Eagle: A Tale of Prometheus (2017)

"You would betray the king of the gods!?"
"Oh yes," Prometheus replied, "That's who I am, you see. I'm a traitor. It's what I do!"

Empty Nest (2016)

A semi-biographical tribute to memory and place.

Skink (2017)

A sentence or two about a lizard.

The Planet Eater (2015)

The Planet Eater swung around the yellow star and closed in on his prey. An asteroid bounced off his long, worm-like body as he swept into the inner system.