Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Writer of Futures
    Writer of Futures
    Writer of Futures
    Ebook108 pages1 hour

    Writer of Futures

    By Raymund Eich

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    From tomorrow's Earth to distant suns, journey to worlds of wonder and adventure

    Five stories named as Honorable Mention or Semi-Finalist by judges of the Writers of the Future contest

     

    PASE DE UN DÍA
    Chalo could teleport to the U.S. every day and work for a better life for his family—if he kept his day pass.

     

    AFFECTIVE DISORDER
    Texas PI Albert Jimenez found more than the usual when he investigated an heiress' "suicide."


    STRIKE PRICES
    Amer made a living providing "protection" against terrorist attacks. Then along came new competitors.

     

    TED WILLIAMS EYES
    Cooper could bat .400 for the first time in a century. Could he keep his secret?

     

    THE ULTIMATE WAGER
    Win a game against your alien hosts or go "home"—to an Earth you've never seen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCV-2 Books
    Release dateOct 27, 2020
    ISBN9781393367406
    Writer of Futures
    Author

    Raymund Eich

    Raymund Eich files patent applications, earned a Ph.D., won a national quiz bowl championship, writes science fiction and fantasy, and affirms Robert Heinlein's dictum that specialization is for insects.In a typical day, he may talk with university biology and science communication faculty, silicon chip designers, patent attorneys, epileptologists, and rocket scientists. Hundreds of papers cite his graduate research on the reactions of nitric oxide with heme proteins.He lives in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter.

    Read more from Raymund Eich

    Related to Writer of Futures

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Once Indoors, Their Pasts Resurfaced

      Aug 27, 2019

      LOS ANGELES - On a Friday afternoon in mid-September, Big Mama and Top Shelf stood in wonder and disbelief in the courtyard of the apartment building. They had finally arrived. "Wow!" Big Mama exclaimed after finding her mailbox. She took a deep brea

      11 min read

    • Article

      Karolina

      Jun 15, 2019

      I first saw Karolina outside the Sumesa on the corner of Avenidas Oaxaca and Álvaro Obregón. She was smoking a stubby cigarette, a sled-like backpack hitched to her shoulders. I stopped short, felt my heart lurch. Could it be? Karolina was my brother

      31 min read

    • Article

      The Heaven — The Earth

      Sep 10, 2022

      Instead of working on the Amtek account, William Morton stares at his wife’s Instagram. She stands near her black folding chair with hands on hips, a living cliché. He grabs his belly in discomfort. William Morton, VP-Sales, finds rolls of fat where

      18 min read

    • Article

      Excerpt

      May 21, 2019

      In the yellow corridor they marched the women single file. Jodi, feeling the worry of the eight at her back, wondered what significance to attach to her position as first behind the sergeant. Not much at Jaxton was left to chance. Oldest, she thought

      7 min read

    • Article

      Table Talk

      Sep 1, 2017

      Table Talk
      8 min read

    • Article

      Ghost Girl, Banana

      Aug 21, 2023

      By the time I was 25, there were only two things I remembered about Mumma. The first was that she smelled of watermelons, the second was that we were happy. We’d taken our father’s name of course, but a name is only half a story. The other half exist

      6 min read

    • Article

      Reach

      Dec 10, 2023

      Jack Benson stands dissolved in an ocean of strangers, humans he couldn’t have known existed until forced to jostle with them for space and shared odors. He recoils imperceptibly with each touch, eager not to offend or stand out any further. As a mas

      10 min read

    • Article

      Reach

      Apr 10, 2021

      Jack Benson stands dissolved in an ocean of strangers, humans he couldn’t have known existed until forced to jostle with them for space and share odors. He recoils imperceptibly with each touch, eager not to offend or stand out any further. As a mass

      10 min read

    • Article

      The Smoke of the Land Went Up

      Mar 4, 2024

      The Smoke of the Land Went Up
      11 min read

    • Article

      Where Is Black Life Lived?

      Jul 21, 2020

      Where Is Black Life Lived?
      6 min read

    • Article

      One Coyote

      Sep 29, 2020

      One Coyote
      9 min read

    • Article

      La Otra Historia

      Jun 30, 2022

      La Otra Historia
      14 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading Subtitles: Rabeah Ghaffari

      Dec 20, 2021

      By the end of 2020, it was clear that I would be living in Mexico. And thus began my odyssey of binge watching mostly Spanish language telenovelas to accelerate my language skills. The post A Year in Reading Subtitles: Rabeah Ghaffari appeared first

      5 min read

    • Article

      In Mountains Of Guatemala, Searching For Parents Deported From US Without Children

      Sep 4, 2018

      HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala - As Juan Carlos Villatoro approached a remote village in Guatemala's western highlands, he yelled at his driver to stop so he could hail a skinny teenager in a motorized rickshaw. Flashing a broad smile, he asked the boy to

      7 min read

    • Article

      Cycles

      Nov 10, 2022

      His online profile was promising: good hair, straight teeth, college degree. And he was nice-looking too, in his photo anyway, standing on a clifftop with the sun rising over his welldefined, muscular shoulder. He was attractive enough, the kind of u

      18 min read

    • Article

      Speedboat

      Mar 24, 2022

      Nobody died that year. Nobody prospered. There were no births or marriages. Seventeen reverent satires were written – disrupting a cliché and, presumably, creating a genre. That was a dream, of course, but many of the most important things, I fi nd,

      14 min read

    • Article

      Smrtss

      Apr 10, 2024

      In the dim, wet oven of the Huey’s troop compartment, the corporal sat on a flak jacket behind the sweat-stained backs of First Squad. Simms, the big machine gunner for Fire Team 2, leaned back against him, jamming the corporal’s knees right up to hi

      13 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Writer of Futures

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Writer of Futures - Raymund Eich

      ,0abook_preview_excerpt.htmlmY˒UZ^kd+|Dh$@P'}'gVIIQUs?}.)ս_ٙޙ5/?lKx/ae](c\M.1\03i26K7f]r `>gw I&9wb^͞qK,uOcFo:؂_[\>08fvv224KrO6Ȯ -b˜S&Kͦݘ al8-(&#Kup0SgW4$?E3M R̈lBRQ;+6Y~Yc3!lS.tp0[|w^ 5LO q9&׃Nuco:͔%a-/kgy̎qͲ 5woz<2UdW; %6Gnyc4 <+9E 4'޻^GŃ>RdN`NL _8e(ɲyAe\|bTw2," IcM!,H׀zV`}%myv'2q z6OΜpDY!txH!kIm<#/$Z$ZD/c, >|\wn^==PeҬ1c"!Io?Z?XRV, lXMN/׌1$Ž`>>"1\!WG>IH\` , R'Tp"@44  G{n)5C}%']X,, |RTV3Pq0nE)VfBt 6!8*#DT޽>[3LR]CI*2ixS(qWtpQwnrfe-4! ॉ2%)eq=>ȝ}_oqmw@#'u 6mON#O>c9Q7rWRǁ_q_N|'Nɸ'6ܗ Hk*5;'_OH`}2Lxl+oj ݻ#іpe9z[)z݇Gm;W_Kw7ɭ#!v#dR+o~ BձJ },F<.+Vlɓ]7eg?&W'y"g%1iE'ł{{rNU^ǟWTB: i@Fu=rcut|#s 4F:Z\2I\T<ڣ܊Fe~R9gF&%@/?[|d/ȷi,޻tMYmͨXw _%aECom xHf.yRۈV`B5:d )1! Ao&KZOji|Y3ꞅ.c-A;zSX,qPd"$'Llna[Z-zRGZ|h FɲQrwxrd[7`jZJ#t LH{hi58i]!E$bA(Z42\۱(uF(b9˟"fɆa.EmARRxڗ{k47)zrG[{imI fh(bF`ei3-Mw|t5u^٪bѸ,cLpdg;V%JI 1T"y@*O}{ jST<.FuTʂljEu6]Zڈ] @bV/*5jhZRauBtPd^,ӿ4cYn솃MP) NMԻf6 ބZ7"=ʷ`Uj>$B4!deZ)ߡ.85pv2`8 2{5Bu=`ouܺ:)rT? ]y?qF5 WTYިf׭IL(%~4N%XhP|IOCON*c@EEt]igS w}| < &@J4
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1