Nick Neim's Stories

Tag: love

  • WHY I DON’T LIKE KING DAVID

    Characters of modern times are fabled by the author. Any resemblance to living or deceased people is purely coincidental. A short story If you presume that you can create a new plot in this life, then you either don’t muse deeply enough about it or you don’t know much enough. And it doesn’t matter where…

  • THE STORY OF CHEVALI

    A novelette PRFACE This novelette arose the following way: readers liked the story “Cool Game”, and many of them persistently asked me about the further fate of its main character, a bully guy named Chevali from a princely family exterminated by the Revolution and Soviet authority. Then I decided to share those meager information, which…

  • SIGH OF ETHER

    A fiction short story Dr. Simon Ether left the room and no rushing walked to the nurses’ station. Now at the counter he will write down his observations and recommendations in the patient’s medical history. Perhaps not all observations. Moreover, not all thoughts about what is happening… This was the second time in a week…

  • OPERATION “SINGAPORE”

    NICK NEIM FOREWORD I don’t know how important this preface is, but in case anyone is curious to know how sometimes a short story transfers into a novella, I’ll give you an example. I once presented to readers a story of two friends living in different countries in different hemispheres. It was associated with a…

  • TO CROSS THE RUBICON

    Sci-fi short story 1 It was a typical ritual. The graduating cadets were reporting their readiness to travel on a temporal launch boat into the past. There they studied a selected episode of history and in practice tried to violate the theoretical law of invariance of the past. And professor Sacks advised and admonished the…

  • KEYDOOR

    A Christmas sci-fi story Closer to a Christmas holidays, when every fifth order to be wrapped at the Prime Delivery Company is a toy, Singing Santa, I often make fun of young packers, “How many of you know where this Santa Claus, who spins and sings to the sounds of “Jingle Bells”, came from?” No…

  • THE PARADOX

    A SCIENCE-FICTION STORY 1 Lenard quickly put his things into his backpack. Toda y he had a lot to do. First lectures, then classes in the sports section, and in the evening, in the computer room, an important conversation with Anna. And his work, of course. They got acquainted here – they happened to clean…