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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

#PennedPossibilities 821 — What is the spookiest thing you’ve ever written? Share an excerpt.

Probably "A Colder War".

Here's the whole thing: https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

A Colder War - a novelette by Charles Stross

Roger isn't a soldier. He's not much of a patriot, either. He's just scared when 20 pages of sheer terror land on his CIA desk.
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Daniel
@anotherdaniel@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@cstross I love this story. Plus it contains a phrase that I really have to adopt in my professional live: „you’re minimally correct“ 😂

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Dave Wise
@davetheresurrector@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@cstross "A Colder War" is a story I reread every so often. It never gets old.

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AllyPally
@allypally@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@cstross I like the names. Professor Gould talking about the Burgess Shale creatures for instance. And many others.

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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@allypally REALLY WEIRDLY, Oliver North and Fawn Hall showed up in the news earlier this year—apparently they reconnected at North's first wife's funeral last year and got married this August:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3yexvvl34o

Iran-Contra figures Oliver North and Fawn Hall marry after 40 years

The pair shredded documents to cover up secret arms sales to Iran in a scandal that rocked Ronald Reagan's White House.
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DeterioratedStucco
@SoftwareTheron@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@cstross
I return to that one
(among others, he added hastily).

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robb
@dlx@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@cstross probably my favorite Mythos stories

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James Smith 💾
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@cstross I've loved all your work, but A Colder War is still my number 1 of the lot. I remain desperate for someone to make it into a graphic novel :D

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johnrohde
@johnrohde@helvede.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@cstross I once wrote a thing in JavaScript. That thing were pretty spooky, but then again, that language is scary.

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