Author Archives: epbeaumont

Flash Fiction: Rising of the Phoenix (1000 words)

Posted on June 14, 2014 by epbeaumont

Human voices wake us, and we drown. Blue waters shimmer around me, above and below and to the side, and somehow I’m still breathing. I don’t remember. “Yasmin,” says my sister’s voice. “Yasmin, can you hear me?” I’m underwater, swimming in … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 8 June 2014 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Posted on June 8, 2014 by epbeaumont

“Ooh!” Yasmin said. “What do you see?” “I see the heat playing through you all, and the cold spots in the Dome, and the storms overhead, and the hush-and-rush of our blood, like the tides of the Ancient Sea.” “Is … Continue reading →

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Flash fiction (Random Title): Crown of Bastards

Posted on June 4, 2014 by epbeaumont

“So is it true that your parents aren’t married to each other?” Yasmin made a face, as Jehen watched the Karis cadets. Six of them ranged in a ragged half-circle in front of them, eyes avid. “Is it true that your … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 June 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on June 1, 2014 by epbeaumont

Early on, my half-brother and half-sister and I formed a triad for dancing. The Second Prime is the number of music, for there is the drum, the dance, and the song, the trinity that flows between the dancers as the … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction: Forbidden (100 words)

Posted on May 30, 2014 by epbeaumont

On Sarronny, we do not step on living plants. Long ago, the Academy at Karis built walkways over the ground. Their glass and silvery metal gleamed in the moons’-light. Martisset sprawled among the living plants, until she learned that was … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 25 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 25, 2014 by epbeaumont

A great advantage of being a sentient starship is that you never have to think about what to wear! I am arrayed in all the splendor of my great hull, my sensors, my Artificial Intelligences, my glorious power-plant, and my … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction: Abacus Music

Posted on May 20, 2014 by epbeaumont

The one eyed high priest of the Temple of Mammon plays the invisible music of money on an abacus made of the bones of miscarried messiahs. The messiah was born in 1800. In 1812, she died of dehydration in the … Continue reading →

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Goals: Beyond Perfectionism (Upcoming Story Releases!)

Posted on May 20, 2014 by epbeaumont

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, a job application asked me: What is your greatest strength? What is your greatest weakness? To the first question, I replied, “I’m willing to work extra hard for creative control.” … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 18 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 18, 2014 by epbeaumont

We live, we love, we inhabit this moment. And it doesn’t matter if you’re in a fleshly body or a cyborg larger than the whales of the Original World; those rhythms go on.  I dance in the solar winds of … Continue reading →

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Goals: And Things Change, Yet Again

Posted on May 17, 2014 by epbeaumont

Last night I came home from a satisfying day of running writing bouts with my colleagues, and decided to just chill and lift a glass in celebration of all the things I got done this week. Some of them — … Continue reading →

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