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Free short stories - online fiction stories fiction - complete stories by Hugh Cook - new stories are included in the list below and are also listed separately. This selection of longer short stories was last updated 2003 June 20 Friday (Japan time). The flash fiction selection was last updated 2003 June 26 Thursday. For a full list of Hugh Cook's longer stories (not all on this site) see the short story bibliography





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Acorns  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction mainstream story set in the U.S.A. Partly about acorns, but mostly not. Partly about acorns, but mostly not. This literary story is a piece of modern mainstream fiction - a piece of contemporary fiction.

An Alien in Japan. Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction sf alien story online fiction storyalien. For the alien, Japan is a pretty alien place. There are all kinds of things which really defy comprehension. One of them being these strange creatures called dogs. Edible creatures. Obviously, this is a science fiction alien story.

A Pilgrimage to Plaka Kalada  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction visit another planet online fiction story sf online fiction story science fiction. Ida Brahma is on a mission to the planet Plaka Kalada. She has two problems. One is that if her disguise is penetrated then she may end up dead. The other problem is Doctor Defrock. A story about another planet - an sf story.

Astral Talent  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction ghost story online fiction story ghost story. An Oolong Morblock story. While Danzburg is in prison, his son Oswald (aged nine) is endangered by the exorcist Elmace. Elmace, who is a dangerous blunderer, summons Oswald's spirit from his sleeping body. This is an Oolong Morblock story - a fantasy story.

Bad Sex  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction clone sex story online fiction story syphilis story syphillis story venereal disease story online fiction venereal disease online fiction story identity problem story. Terrence Azlenabek is one of the most difficult people to deal with. He believes in telling the truth, regardless of the consequences. And the truth regarding this guy John Milton? Well, the tabloid press is making a meal of it. This is a story about John Milton - an sf clone story.

Basque  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction time travel story online fiction story time travel online fiction stories timetravel story online fiction story. If the Basque language is to be studied in its ancient uncontaminated form, then the time travelers will have to get moving, fast. But are their observations innocent or genocidally destructive? This is a time travel story - an sf story about time travel.

Consenting Adults  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction vampire story short online fiction story vampires. The rules of Business-Business are simple: keep your personal life out of it. But Burton wants to see Matilda again. He knows he might be putting his corporate career at stake. But, actually, it's rather more dangerous than that. This is a fantasy story.

Consequences  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction cursed man. Jervil makes an irretrivably error and ends up being cursed. He hopes he can get out of Asia alive. But the odds are against him. This is a fantasy story - a story of a cursed man.

Diving on the Wreck  Online fiction story online fiction stories. Heineman does not have the temperament of a hero. Even so, he ends up diving on the wreck, struggling to save the lives of those not yet dead inside. This is a fantasy story - a Chalakanesia story

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Gally Smith and the Massacre of the Orcs  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction fantasy. Gally Smith faces the task of keeping alive the orclets in the face of the practitioners of genocide. A fantasy story.

Gap Music  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction recovered memory castration castrati. Well, of course, everyone has to remember their previous lives. That's an acknowledged part of growing up. But for some people the process kicks in later than others. And the results can be a bit ... well ... you be the judge. This is (sort of) a story about recovered memory.

Golf Course  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction golf story. You've heard about Heaven and Hell. And Purgatory. And Limbo. But it's a bit more complicated than that. There is also Golf Course. This is a horror fantasy story, a golf story and a life after death story.

Life and Death in Oolong Morblock  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction ghost story. Three months after committing the perfect murder, Mafling Yonrungon dies of a heart attack. However, although dead, he's not yet ready to call it quits. This is a ghost story.

Life on Planet Earth  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction aliens. Landing at Fort Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, was the first totally inexplicable and utterly alien thing which the aliens did. After the invaders left, the people of planet Earth were left with something else which was extremely strange: each other. This is an sf horror story.

Live on Channel 10  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction horror story. Everyone wants to be on TV, right? Horror story. A horror story.

Mountaineering Complex  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction mountain climbing vignette. Just what is this contagious form of insanity known as "mountaineering"? Why has it been banned? And what can we expect to encounter if we bump up against an uncontrolled case of the disease? This is a brief vignette, a psychology of mountain climbing story.

Night on Bear Mountain   Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction virtual reality. Roy Pajelva faces a crisis in the virtual reality world of Bear Mountain when one of the teenagers under his care seems to be dying of hypothermia. This is an sf horror story - an sf virtual reality story.

On the Wings of a Cockroach  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction creative writer fiction story writing fiction story poet fiction story writing poetry. Jozanna Yu, poet, wakes up and finds she's been turned into a cockroach. Again. And she thinks she knows who's responsible. In fact, there's only one suspect - boyfriend Gregor Samsa. A story about being a poet and writing poetry - a story about creative writing.

Patriots  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction American patriots government surveillance. Even if you're a genuine patriot, and Jason is, that doesn't set you online fiction stories from the need to play the game. And a pretty rough game it can be, too. A surveillance society SF story.

Quilting  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction terrorist story terrorism. Some people aren't asked if they'd like to become the enemy. They're just born into a particular community, and that seals their fate. Even so, quilting would seem to be a harmless enough hobby. But it's surprising what can be turned into a lethal weapon, if you're imaginative enough. An SF terrorism.

Remembering Nagasaki   Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction Nagasaki nuclear threat atomic war. Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. But an individual act of recollection is no guarantee of safety in the face of a communal drive to destruction. A nuclear threat SF story.

Saint George and Ibrahim  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction short fable violent. There's a bit of blood, but don't worry. Saint George is on a mission from God! A short violent fable - a modern fable.

Swiss Toys  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction menace of Switzerland. The question: can Switzerland's quest for world domination be halted? Or are the robots which have been unleashed by the Swiss just too much for the civilized world to handle? An SF story - a story about robot love.

The Angel of the Seventh Apocalypse  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction prisoners of aliens. Fran and Cobril were prisoners of the Memory Masters, the intelligent jellyfish otherwise known as the Kabila Yutenji. Because their memories were limited by a thirty-day decay rule, it was not easy to keep track of what was happening. A science fiction story.

The Ghosting of Heineman Jubiladilia. Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction ghost story. That body is Heineman's. And if he can't get back into it, then he's dead. A fantasy story.

The Kidney Bean Diet  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction serial killer murder story. There's a certain amount of screaming coming from the neighbor's house. Does this mean the neighbor has a taste for violent videos? Or violent tastes? Content may disturb. A hardcore horror story.

The Rat. Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction rat. He woke up at night ... why? The title gives a hint. A short rat story.

The Secret History of Lord Dreldragon  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction CHRONICLES OF AN AGE OF DARKNESS story. The day before his arrest, Asquith North gets an anonymous letter. It is short and to the point. "What you call truth others call treason. Run if you value your life. You are only twenty-four years of age." But Asquith does not run. A fantasy story.

The Suicide Bomber  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction suicide bomber story. He doesn't think of himself as a suicide bomber. Or even as a terrorist. He genuinely believes that terrorism is not the answer. But, day by day, he has less and less to lose, and more and more reason to take action. An sf story - a suicide bomber story.

The Transfer of Patient Twenty-Seven  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction senility story senile man story hospital patient story ambulance attendant story. Mainstream story. (This kind of thing happens). A mainstream story.

Too Far from Home - Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction story travel story India Bodhgaya fiction a travel story. Jamie Heck is traveling in India. He's already gone far beyond the borders of any reality that he's familiar with, and perhaps he's in danger of transgressing across the boundaries of reality itself. A story about India.

The Warden of Jestabel Zee - Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction fantasy story a fantasy story. What to do in the face of a threat of violence. A fantasy story.

The Wrath of Babril Hestek - Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction alien god weird god snakes in her hair science fiction fantasy. A spacecraft is going to land on the planet of Velis Tantris. Burning all in its path. A priestess gets involved. Then a god. An SF fantasy story.

UFO Invasion - the Truth about Alien Abductions!!  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction abduction alien abductee alien invasion alieninvasion. Each year, millions of Americans are abducted by aliens. But why? This lightly fictionalized account of a TRUE STORY supplies the answer. A UFO story.

Upgrade - Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction bioscience medical story - an SF horror story. This is fairly long, weighing in at 9,162 words. A story about Eric. When Eric was under interrogation by the police, he felt no stress. The police were nothing compared to the Institute. "What do you know about the body?" said the voice behind the light. An SF horror story.

Vorn the Gladiator  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction fear of torture story pain horror Vorn the Gladiator, fearing torture, flees the city of Chi'ash-lan, accompanied by Sharla the Swordswoman. Whom he can trust. He thinks. This gladiator story is a story about torture.

Wet Leaves on the Track  Online fiction story online fiction stories onlinefiction story surreal The lump of icecream melting in the schoolyard is bigger than the house. The condom which has fallen on the neighboring town is larger than the town itself. But none of this drama brings to an end the mundane day-to-day tensions of the family. A short bizarre story.


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The Worshippers and the Way

Chapter One

        Singlefighter: aka Scala Nine singlefighter: a Nexus warmachine, a flying hunter-killer designed for deployment in a planetary atmosphere. It is powered by corrosion cells, in which small quantities of antimatter are destroyed by controlled contact with normative matter. The corrosion cells will power the machine for three days without recharge.

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        So burning down from out of the sun
        The weapon struck -
        Hooked down from sundark sky -
        From sundark blindness burning -
        Brightness inexplicable in a shock
        Which sheered the dark to light,
        And by this revelation wreaked -

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        - so burning down from out of the sun, burning down from out of the blind brightness, the singlefighter struck, and the hapless foe screamed in pain across the Openband, and wrecked went down in flaming agony. As the enemy fighter fell, Lupus Lon Oliver sent his own craft plunging down the gravity well. Down from the sky he came, his singlefighter hurtling down, low and lower, so low that the warning klaxons shrilled and screamed:
        "Pull up! Pull up!"
        Lupus pulled up, pulled out, pulled hard, wrenching his craft away from disaster in a wetness of sweat and orgasmic release, and screamed in triumph. In the throes of his battle-glory, he had a momentary vision of red-hot blood. The blood was seared across his vision-screens. The entire world was blood: blood made blind, blood made glory, triumph's glory, victory.
        "Ah," said Lupus, easing the singlefighter into a long slow barrel roll, feeling the sweetness easing to languorous content as the cosmos rolled about the axis of his craft, the briefness now completeness.


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Fantasy Novel

The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster

A novel by Hugh Cook

Chapter Five

    Guardians: mercenaries who serve the Safrak Bank, which has long hired such warriors from Port Domax and Wen Endex - both places where Toxteth is the ruling language. As Guardians frequently settle in Safrak on retirement, Toxteth now dominates Safrak, and many geographers erroneously denote it as the sole language spoken in that archipelago.

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        "Come here!" said Iva-Italis.
        The demon did not speak in the Toxteth of the Guardians of Safrak, nor the Galish with which Bankers habitually intercommunicated. Rather, it commanded Guest Gulkan in the Eparget of the horse tribes - just as Banker Sod had done when briefing Guest on his duties.
        "You!" said Iva-Italis. "Yes, you, hair-of-a-horse! Come here!"
        Guest hesitated. With the jade-green monolith revealed as a demon for real, the Weaponmaster found himself healthily afraid of the thing. The rock's proven demonhood gave substance to the breath-bating horror stories told about its temperament. Many a drunken Guardian had denounced it as a very vampire in its humors - a monster of deceit which would plead one close with pleasantries then snap away one's head to satisfy anthropophagous passions.
        Yet -
        Yet Safrak trusted the demon, for Icaria Scaria Iva-Italis was Guardian Prime of Safrak and Keeper of the Inner Sanctum, that most secret of all abditories. Did that say something of the falsity of rumor? Or did it, rather, say something rather unpleasant about the Bank itself?
        "I do not wish to repeat myself," said Iva-Italis. "Nor do I wish to have to raise my voice. Come here!"
        Guest Gulkan advanced, though - remembering tales of the demon's heat-biting displeasure - he did not venture too close. Though Guest thought himself momentarily innocent of any wrongdoing, he had learnt long ago that a child's subjectivity is no guide to the judgments of adults. And, truly, the trembling Weaponmaster felt a very child in the presence of the thunderous patriarchal authority of the Hall of Time.


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