In this section of the Scriptus website we offer a platform for short stories, a form of fiction that is too often neglected. We started off our collection with a handful of science fiction stories, but we are looking for any other genre including historical, crime, romance – in fact any type of story so long as it is interesting!
We hope your enjoy the stories and please leave a review or comment: writers are always interested in their readers’ reactions!
The Scriptus website is constantly developing, so please wait for exciting new content soon!
Do you have a short story you want us to publish here? Please see the guidelines and upload form on our Submissions page.
Three Preludes
Stephen Geller
Stephen describes the preparations in 1887 for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Pushkin’s death in a duel. The sophisticated and cosmopolitan Ivan Turgenev visits his friend Leo Tolstoy at his estates and tries to persuade the notoriously unsociable writer to participate. The event goes ahead, with Dostoyevsky delivering the main speech…
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Pipe Dream
Tamizh Ponni VP
Our new writer Tamizh Ponni worked as Design Facilitator in an International School, Bengaluru, India. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, an MBA in Human Resources and a Masters in English Literature. She is currently pursuing her M.Tech, PhD integrated course in Data Science. She has worked as a Professional Development Coach and as a Tech Integrationist. Tamizh believes that the best thing in being an IB educator is that beyond teaching there’s a lot of deep learning involved in the process. Tamizh sees learning as a never-ending process and with technology integration, it gives her an interesting dimension to knowledge acquisition and skill-building. Tamizh spends most of her free time painting, reading, writing articles, stories and poems, playing keyboard and watching documentaries/movies.
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The Voyage to Thalassa
Philippe de Felice
When Alke hoped to rebuild his life by volunteering as a colonist to a new Earth, the immensely long interstellar voyage changed him forever…
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The Witnesses
Philippe de Felice
When the deep space mining ship ‘Fyodor Usakov’ goes missing, a search party is sent out to the Pleiades to find it. The ship is eventually found apparently empty but a terrifying discovery awaits the boarding party…
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The Gate of Hell
Philippe de Felice
A mysterious plague and dramatic explosions in the sky lure a Byzantine army into the Egyptian desert…
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Epsilon 473
Philippe de Felice
Illegal mining in the Kuyper Belt leads to a traumatic event…
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Area 5
Philippe de Felice
Archeaologists make a disturbing discovery…
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The Akkerman-Hasegawa Hypothesis
Philippe de Felice
A physicist working on the cutting-edge theory of ‘Einstein–Rosen bridges’ in spacetime begins to have hallucinations. What he experiences will change him for ever…
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