Danielle Ste.Just
science fictionizing and fantasizing
Each story shines with inventiveness…. The tales grab you with well developed characters and imaginative plots and won’t let go… even long after you finish reading them.
Danielle’s Latest Short Story
The Untold Heartbreak of Mrs. Claus
Every midwinter, Mrs. Claus can bring her daughter back to life for one short day…
Their daughter was the love of their lives. After she died, Santa Claus started a magical workshop to bring joy to all the other girls and boys in the world. Mrs. Claus, however, couldn’t forget the one little girl they’d called their own. She shut herself in her own little workshop to learn the ultimate spell: resurrecting the dead. And for fourteen years, she’s brought her daughter back on midwinter day.
But this year is different. This year, her daughter has ideas of her own.
As she is dragged out of her workshop to face the life she’s put aside, Mrs. Claus is forced to confront her relationship with her husband, her daughter, and herself. Just maybe she can realize what she’s been missing and regain happiness before it slips away.
The Disk Mirror Solution
Welcome to 2422, a time of implanted technology, exotic exoplanets, and the apex predator we ourselves created.
Now two women from opposite ends of the galaxy threaten to expose the secret behind the most dangerous killer humanity has ever spawned.
Armintor Vess is days away from receiving her first cranial implant when a technology-fueled plague strikes her homeworld. Fears of contagion condemn Armintor and the other survivors to a planet ruled by autocratic technophobes. She fights to stay alive in her new, pitiless, low-tech world. Seizing a better opportunity seems like the answer to her dreams. But her chance at a new life uncovers a danger that threatens the entire human race.
Intel-broker Redcholate Parise buys and sells information in virtual reality. When a mysterious client offers a fortune for a job that can only be completed in the real world, the job takes over Redcholate’s body and her life, and she learns more than she ever wanted to know.
As their two stories collide, both women find themselves facing a foe they could never defeat alone. They must find the truth before time—and humanity’s existence—runs out.
