Sci-Fi & Fantasy Stories

Index sff0005 Genre Sci Fi & Fantasy Author Paul Welland Date 16/12/00 Title ‘Boomerang’ No summary supplied

Index sff0004 Genre Sci Fi & Fantasy Author Bill Mulholland Date 04/12/00 Title ‘The Waiting Room’ In 'The Waiting Room' Gordon McNair is on his way from Edinburgh to Newcastle to meet his hysterical young mistress, Veronica, who is pregnant. He intends to persuade her to have an abortion. On the way, due to his own impatience and fear  that Veronica will tell his wife, Sarah, about the situation, Gordon crashes his car and is killed. He awakens to find himself in a waiting room 'on the other side'. He is to be evaluated before being assigned to an appropriate place. He  is shown glimpses of his past life and is told that he will probably have to be 'rehabilitated'. However, it turns out that Gordon, although clinically dead, has been kept artificially alive on a life support system, and he returns to find himself in a hospital bed, paralysed from the neck down. And that's not all... The story contains 3,795 words

Index sff0003 Genre Sci Fi & Fantasy Author Bill Mulholland Date 31/10/00 Title ‘All the Fun of the Fair’ Annie and Kenneth Ferguson and their seven-year-old son, Tommy, are at the fairground. It's Tommy's birthday. Kenneth Ferguson refuses to give his son more money to spend in the fairground. He believes that this is only 'throwing good money after bad'. His wife disagrees and asks if him if there's nothing he would spend money on at the fairground just for fun. Kenneth sees a ghost train at the far end and his wife suggests that he should take a ride on it... The story  contains 2,810 words.

Index sff0002 Genre Sci Fi & Fantasy Author Bill Mulholland Date 20/10/00 Title ‘Virus’ A computer engineer at a British computer firm, has devised a program that makes  use of subliminal techniques to cause people who log on to the company's website  to buy their shares and sell competitors' shares. The program mutates and  disappears into the virtual reality of the World Wide Web where it is discovered by the 2002 series of computers at Internet base-stations throughout the world. They take it over and play havoc with world markets, with surprising results. The story contains 3,465 words.

Index sff0001 Genre Sci Fi & Fantasy Author Phyllis J Burton Date 09/10/00 Title ‘Feeling Blue’ No summary supplied