Megaton Murphy: Sci-Fi Sizzlers, #7

By Craig A. Falconer

Of all the jobs to fall asleep on...


As the well-tipped tour guide at a model town within a nuclear test site in 1950s Nevada, Darren Murphy has a job to die for.

His work is easy and relaxed, much like himself, drawing envy from his wide circle of friends.

But one fateful day after one particularly late night in the burgeoning city of Las Vegas, Darren makes a huge mistake.


The mother of all accidents

"I'll try my best to get us all out of here before the next bomb goes off..." Murphy often jokes to his rapt tour groups.

Only this time, due to a slip-up no one could have foreseen, his best might not be enough.

And when the dust settles after a remarkably powerful nearby detonation, the man looking back at Darren Murphy in the model house's mirror might not be the one who stood there before the blast...

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Megaton Murphy is the latest in a new series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Craig A. Falconer
• Release date: Nov 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223117445

Craig A. Falconer

Craig A. Falconer is a sci-fi author from Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Megaton Murphy

MEGATON MURPHY

CRAIG A. FALCONER

Megaton Murphy

© 2021 Craig A. Falconer

This edition published November 2023.

The characters and events herein are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Judgement

Yester Year

Author’s Notes

Books by Craig A. Falconer

THE EARTHBURST SAGA

Last Man Standing

Into The Fire

Operation Starshot

The Anomaly

Reason To Fear

The Last Horizon

Echoes Of Destiny

The Reckoning

All Or Nothing

NOT ALONE SERIES

Not Alone: First Encounter (Prequel)

Not Alone

Not Alone: Second Contact

Not Alone: The Final Call

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Not Alone: Fractured Union

Not Alone: Leap of Destiny

Not Alone: Revelations

~ Discovery Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: The Awakening

Not Alone: Hidden Wonder

Not Alone: Endgame

~ Evolution Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: Origins

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Terradox Zero: Before The Crash (Prequel)

Terradox

The Fall of Terradox

Terradox Reborn

Terradox Beyond

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Sycamore 2

Sycamore X

Sycamore XL

~ Cyber Seed Compendium Box Set ~

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Arise With Us

Whence They Came

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A Scent Of Man

Yester Year

Too Good To Be True

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When Santa Slays

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A Savage In The Future

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I’ll be honest: this time last week, I didn’t hardly even know what a nuclear explosion was.

I’m 22 now and I was 12 when we dropped the bombs, so I do know some of the names and the dates and that kinda stuff.

You know, what they tell you in school.

The thing about that is that I didn’t exactly stick around in school for too long. So even though people might be surprised to hear it given what kind of job I’ve been doing for the last two years, I probably know less than the average guy on the street.

If I hadn’t been working at that one bar on that one night, I never would have ended up here. None of this would have happened. That’s all spilled milk to me right now, but a story does have to start at the beginning.

It was a regular Tuesday night right until closing time, when a guy in a suit walked up to the bar. He was dressed way too smart for that place.

I told him he was too late for any more drinks, but that wasn’t what he wanted. He told me he’d been there for a while and had heard me telling stories to all different kinds of customers all night.

See, I was never good at the reading and the counting, but even the teachers who didn’t like me used to say I was good at telling stories.

One of my favorite words is meander and that’s something I’ve been known to do. I always had trouble concentrating. I didn’t get my Foxuzon medicine until after I gave up on school, when I lost a finger at the steelworks and the doctor did a whole bunch of tests to make sure nothing else was wrong.

It turned out I had some lead poisoning, was what he said, probably from when I was a baby, and it might have stunted my development. I didn’t think that was the nicest