Tony Marks

Short Stories

Shorter fiction from the author of The Jackrabbit series and Trust Us. Each story is free to read here, and each one is complete in a single sitting.

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  1. Science fiction

    Benevolence Deferred

    About 3,000 words · a 15-minute read

    Thirty-one thousand days into its survey, a ship takes up station behind the moon of a very blue planet. The catalogue is due on the tenth day, and further aft the usual preparations are already being made. In the operations room, Ensign Tik has the least popular station of all: the locals' own records.

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