Kina the executioner frowned. In her grid of four-by-four monitors, fifteen of them showed white-and-grey static. One showed four men at a table.
A man jumped to his feet. “No! We have more gifts. Beautiful things.”
Kina looked around. Baubles and jewels from orbiting prison workshops adorned her room.
“Enough.”
She pressed a button. Bombs exploded. The final image turned to static.
Kina sighed, work done at last.
Gustavo Bondoni is
novelist and short story writer with over three hundred stories
published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. He is a member of
Codex and an Active Member of SFWA.His latest novel is a dark historic fantasy entitled The Swords of Rasna (2022). He has also published five science fiction novels, four monster books and a thriller entitled Timeless. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflection (2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019), Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).
In
2019, Gustavo was awarded second place in the Jim Baen Memorial Contest
and in 2018 he received a Judges Commendation (and second place) in The
James White Award. He was also a 2019 finalist in the Writers of the
Future Contest.
His website is at www.gustavobondoni.com
Gustavo has become a regular contributor to Stupefying Stories and we have quite a few stories of his stories on this site. Check them out!
► “A Nightingale Sings,” by Sylvia Heike
► “Angels,” by Sophie Sparrow
► “My Name is Static,” by Christopher Degni
► “Symmetry,” by Gustavo Bondoni
► “Sound Effects,” by Kimberly Ann Smiley
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