Cristy Zinn

SPECULATIVE FICTION

Stories

05 March 2013
Cal and Boon live in a world descimated by asteroid rain. Their small town is cut off from civilisation (if there is any left) by the fear that they might be caught in the open when the rains come. Cal and Boon are homeless and rely on the kindness of strangers and the odd job to keep them going. When Boon steals some food and faces exile, Cal has...
05 March 2013
Ben is a retrenched roboticist, working in an electronics store in Cape Town. His life is about to go from bad to worse when a delivery of CR550's arrive at the shop - the very robot that took his job.
05 March 2013
The city of Arculon always feared the encroaching desert, until dragons appeared and brought chaos with them. Now they keep to their hibernates and the daytime shadows, always watching the skies. Legend is just another hibernate, but her unlikely friendship with the migratory Landers who choose to live 'outside' and a meeting with a strange man...
05 March 2013
When Gwynn needs to run away there is only one man who can help her - one who is as cursed as the river she needs to cross. But the boatman is not what he appears.
02 March 2013
In a world where a man can choose to relinquish all physical ability for a greater mind, one man discovers the price is too high.
02 March 2013
Winter has lost her father and soon she will have to go and live with her grim, colourless aunt. She cannot bear the thought. On one of her last night's in her house, she creeps into her father's study and finds something he left behind...
02 March 2013
Tannah wakes with no memory but her name and the ability to produce fire from her hands. Soon she will come in to contact with the one man who holds all her secrets...
02 March 2013
This is a post-apoloclyptic story about a group of kids who surive as left-overs in a world that doesn't want them. As they scavenge the empty cities they find something that will give them a voice...