Science Fiction: Welcome to my Worlds

of his antagonist vaporized. Lower legs and head and shoulders that remained thudded to the pavement.

He looked at the gun and the hand and the remaining body parts in astonishment. “Damn, these people are serious. What did you do?”

There was no reply as he lost control again and began to run toward a rusty blue door. Getting trapped inside a building with people coming after them didn’t seem like a particularly good idea, but he couldn’t even speak now so there was nothing he could do.

“We’ll be safe if we can make it into the building.”

Then a figure stepped out of the shadow of a doorframe in their path. A woman. A very striking woman. She was obviously unarmed, wearing only a short shift that didn’t conceal much of her, much less a weapon. “Stop please. I only want to talk to you.”

Alarmed, Nate saw that the slender hand still holding the gun was aiming it at the woman and tensing to fire. “No! She’s unarmed. What are you doing?” He struggled for control with every ounce of his will and managed to deflect the aim slightly, but not enough. The gun fired, and there was a loud POP as if from a bursting bubble.

A small portable forcefield around the woman flared and disappeared. Her midsection didn’t vaporize, except


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