flash fiction – Robert Shepherd: Writer

The Absence

The bottom of a human face with starlight visible above it.

It’s scary to think that aliens know the things we would never realise. But perhaps it’s even scarier when things are the other way round.

Zoology

Time-lapse image of the stars used to illustrate a story about the future.

In the future and in a zoo, the last member of our species is the smartest animal alive. But they find that means nothing at all, in a world that doesn’t think of them as human.