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Cossmass Infinities 3 - Suicide is Painless

Submitted by Paul Campbell on Mar 1st, 2010
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Written by Don Norum
Read by Paul W Campbell

Lucia got up out of bed and stood naked in front of the mirror to examine her body in the dim light. Alexander Perez pushed the sheets down to his waist and sat up on his elbows, watching the gentle bulge of neuroptic interface clusters beneath her skin, sockets glinting like diamonds as they caught the gentle glow from the edges of the ceiling. She held her arms out straight from her sides and worked them through their range of motion.

First the fingers on her right hand, then left. From there on up to the wrists, the jewels in the palms of her hands spinning in small circles as her exercises moved up to her forearms.

"I was awake for the procedure, you know," she said to the gloom. "It was an odd feeling, to have my flesh sliced open and the circuits put in, little antiseptic globs of plastic bonded to my bones to keep them in place. I could feel them itching as they knit around the anchor posts - it was worst in the lower back and hands."

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Cossmass Infinities 2 - The Strange Affair of the Martian Engine

Submitted by Paul Campbell on Feb 1st, 2010
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Written by Joshua Reynolds
Read by Rachel Beveridge

"Venusian?" the woman asked, poppy smoke curling out of her nostrils. She took another drag on the cigarette and glanced over her shoulder at the spare, short man with a big nose standing respectfully behind her. He smiled, displaying blunt, nicotine-colored teeth.

"Martian, Countess Felluci."

"Of course. So easy to get those fellows confused, donchaknow." She looked up at the strange, metal mechanism hanging from the ceiling of the dirigible hangar and waved a gloved hand for emphasis. She wore military jodhpurs and a lavender Hussar's jacket, buttoned to the neck. Leather gloves and knee-high riding boots completed the ensemble. It contrasted sharply to the little man's own rather hum-drum appearance. He could've been a banker or a lawyer, rather than a scientist.

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Cossmass Infinities 1 - Fluff and Buttons on the Teddy Bear Range

Submitted by Paul Campbell on Jan 1st, 2010
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Welcome to the first episode of Cossmass Infinities.

Written by Matthew Sanborn Smith
Read by Paul W Campbell
Fluff and Buttons on the Teddy Bear Range first appeared in Chiaroscuro.

Death comes swiftly on the teddy bear range when the night devils' silhouettes mar the purpling sky. I shiver in the chill nightfall. Muffin turns his back to me, lights a cigarette as if to ward off the darkness.

"Get the little ones inside," I say. "We're burning the fires bright tonight."

At our feet, the wind blew in a piece of red yarn tangled in a few strands of yellow fur. After a quiet couple of weeks the bastards are feeding again.

Read on...

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Listed at Duotrope's DigestCossmass Infinities is a Science Fiction and Fantasy audio magazine.  Our first episode will be published in January 2010.

  • We are looking for short stories, ideally, between 4000 -- 8000 words.
  • Stories should be either Science Fiction or Fantasy, or even a blend of both.
  • We pay £20 a story, upon acceptance, for non-exclusive audio rights.
  • Previously published stories are welcome.
  • You do not need to have been published elsewhere.
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  • We are an audio magazine, so character and location names should be pronounceable.
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