Seven Tales Of Sacrifice

‘Plenty to enjoy – short stories packing big ideas’ – The CrackThese SEVEN TALES OF SACRIFICE will immerse you in carefully crafted worlds, with endings to surprise and move you, and a little dark humour here and there. There are intriguing male and female characters, including some with secrets best kept to themselves…

SPEED DATING CHECKLIST
In his quest for a partner, a last fertile man thinks he can cover everything with his tests and checklist, but can he? What if we could know everything about a potential partner’s likely medical issues, before they even know themselves? And what is the man hiding?
THE THREE JUMP SURPRISE
When asteroid belt gangsters gain the upper hand, can a wily spaceship mechanic come up with an escape plan in time? And how well did they service all those spaceships anyway?
SHINY HEAD
On a mission to avert a nuclear disaster, a time-travelling robot first has to deal with materialising inside … a tree? Follow his efforts to fulfil the mission, and see how he affects the lives of a small family who have already been hit by a heartbreaking tragedy. And just how dangerous could all that stored nuclear waste be?
THE THIRD SHIPWRECK
An ‘abducted’ Victorian diver finds that history and science have not developed as he imagined when he returns. Why does no one remember Doctor Darwin anymore? And where is he?
DON’T TELL THE TREES
A captain of an interplanetary rescue mission is shocked to realise she may have doomed herself and her crew, but is there a way out? What really happened to the last survivors of a doomed colony on a distant planet? And why are there no children around?
THE 10:16 FROM INAI
An alien world is built around the domination of science, which a young female gives us an introduction to, like celebrating their number of completed orbits instead of their birthdays. But what goes wrong when she becomes the first female to land on the alien moon? Marooned and desperate, she sends out a message, but what happens to the teacher who first detects it?
DAUGHTERMOTHER
A proud and protective mother has to make one of the most difficult decisions a parent could ever face. Should we judge her? Can we?