CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I knocked over the beer. On purpose. In front of everyone. And then I ran. I think I saved the starman. The only question is: Can anyone save me? From the raiders and the forest. Can anyone save any of us?   The Starman's Arrival is another colony story from the Odyssey universe, and tells the story of the colony's chronicler's timely encounter with a visitor from a passing ship...and first contact with the planet's primary inhabitants. You can find links to this newly released, stand-alone, science-fiction, urban fantasy short story on this Books2Read page : https://books2read.com/u/3nPxjo , or read an earlier version in A Collection of Lost Ships and Colonies , a collection of urban-fantasy short and flash fiction, and poetry.  

The Starman's Arrival, this month's third short story title is now available for pre-order.  Releasing on the seventeenth, this science-fiction short story is told in first person and set on a colony beset by raiders. What's it About? I knocked over the beer. On purpose. In front of everyone. And then I ran. I think I saved the starman. The only question is: Can anyone save me? From the raiders and the forest.Can anyone save any of us? You can find links to where it is available on this Books2Read page : https://books2read.com/u/4NV0Vx , and subscribers to my ReamStories page will be granted access to it, and many of my other titles as part of their subscription. How Does It Start? He came in a shower of light, a beam that shot out from the orbiting starship and set him precisely in the centre of the town square. It was lucky the bandits shot him before he had fully formed; the round passed right through. His look of surprise, however, is etched, forever, on my mem...