Uncanny — Matt Gemmell
A short story from my Once Upon A Time series.| Matt Gemmell
I wake up each morning with a woman I don’t recognise. We’ve been married for almost ten years. Each day she’s a different woman, but she’s always my wife. The face is new, but when she speaks I can hear that it’s her. When I lean in, still tentatively even though so much time has passed, I can smell that it’s her. When she stretches, I can see from the achingly familiar catlike movement that it’s her. But she’s a stranger to my eyes. I can’t really watch television anymore....| Matt Gemmell
My father worked in the forestry service for forty-one years. He took early retirement last October. These days he’s discovering the joys of binge-watching all the TV shows he missed out on during his working life. He mostly stays indoors now, and I suppose I know why. After university, I bounced from job to job for eight years before deciding to throw away my collection of bland shirts and ties and follow in the old man’s footsteps. That was eleven months ago. My 30th birthday is next we...| Matt Gemmell
KESTREL face a new and terrifying enemy: an all-seeing mastermind who already knows exactly who they are, and many of their deepest secrets. Nothing stays hidden forever, and the line between privacy and liberty is razor-thin…| Matt Gemmell
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