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To my new subscribers, welcome! I’ve been writing some genre fiction lately and I’m sharing it in full with my paid subscribers. The following is a piece of sci-fi flash fiction I wrote recently. I hope y’all enjoy!
The cloud was cruel. It floated silvery and taunting over our habitat. Little purple sparks criss-crossed its silver fluff. It was heavier than water, somehow. But it was certainly a cloud, its shape flashing and changing and strange.
It would sometimes descend and envelope us in a feeling of pure unadulterated joy. It did not ask if we wanted this. It did this on its own schedule.
It did not speak but its desires were known. It wanted love.
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