Dancing Lights & Flying Whales [Sci-Fi Story Collection]

Two worlds meet and have to work around language barriers. Time is against them and one will have to choose when, not if, to let go.

This is the collection for the short story titled "Dancing Lights & Flying Whales", a science-fiction alien tale set in the far future and on a distant world, written by Anike Kirsten.

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^{Dancing Lights & Flying Whales Artwork, Titled "First Contact"}

• Part 1 - The Calling

Shelley hears the call to adventure from the dancing lights in the sky and decides to steal away in pursuit.

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• Part 2 - Chanced Meeting

A not-so-new discovery awaits Sheldon in that pod he found, but this one looks to be leading to something more. Shelley, meanwhile, is discovering more than she thought was ever possible.

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• Part 3 - First Contact

Sheldon makes a breakthrough. But the two, aliens to each other, are running out of time. Is this first contact going to be successful?

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• Part 4 - Departure

The conclusion, the end, perhaps? Or, instead, a new beginning? Time runs short and catches up to Shelley and Sheldon. Was it enough?

^{Anike Kirsten lives in the dead centre of South Africa with her spawns and spouse, cat, and spiders. She is an amateur scientist and artist who also enjoys exploring the possibilities, as well as the improbabilities, within her stories. Fragments of her imagination have been scattered across to Nature: Futures, Avescope, and other fine publications.}

• Copyright © 2022 Anike Kirsten •