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Welcome Aboard

By submission | June 27, 2016
Author : Chris Limb Patrons and customers, my name is Azure Gemollua and I’m your chief flight attendant. On behalf of Captain Swaran and the entire crew I would like to welcome you aboard this Paragon Starline scheduled flight to Nu Phonecis. We are particularly delighted you have ...
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Slippage

By submission | June 26, 2016
Author : Hannah Lackoff “Do you feel as if time is passing by more quickly?” he said, “As though you’re missing bits and pieces, chunks and change?” She hadn’t wanted to say anything, thought she was just getting older, that maybe her mind was going, maybe she had a brain tumor ...
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Blue Planet

By submission | June 25, 2016
Author : Christina Richard The walls of our Ford Starblazer convulsed as we broke the atmosphere of the tiny blue planet and hurtled through the gray haze of clouds, down towards a sprawling, rocky plane. Outside, there was a violent noise of metal ripping away from the body of our ...
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Poet224

By submission | June 24, 2016
Author : Suzanne Borchers “Armpits must stink, be hairy and itch, While snot pours down the hooked- nosed witch.” Threading his fingers through his hair, Robert squatted next to his prototype. The Poet224 bot definitely needed more work. Okay, his rhythm and rhyme senses were in ...
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Cheap Eggs

By submission | June 23, 2016
Author : Callum Wallace “A spray bottle?” “That’s right,” she smiled merrily, pulling her gloves further up her arms. “To make it easier to apply.” I stared, deadpan. “A spray.” She nodded. “Have you tried pouring a bath of this stuff? It’s difficult to test the effects on larger ...
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Manter’s End

By Julian Miles | June 22, 2016
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The office is derelict, with many more overturned chairs than collapsed desks. Filing cabinets stand crooked and burst, the once-precious burdens they held now repurposed as nesting materials or fodder. A few plasticised pieces of paper flick or ...
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The UFO

By submission | June 21, 2016
Author : Harris Tobias The night Janet saw the UFO was the night she threw Frank out of her life. She had just finished dumping all his stuff—clothes, records, comic book collection—into several black plastic garbage bags and placed them on the lawn in a neat row. Let him come ...
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One Way

By submission | June 20, 2016
Author : Rosalie Kempthorne “Are you quite sure you want to do this?” He was asked that question again. And once again he answered “Yes.” “This is a one-way trip.” “Yes, I understand.” I know what I'm signing up for. But not without signing yet again. Another form, crawling ...
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Genius!

By submission | June 19, 2016
Author : Beck Dacus “We noticed from orbit,” said the commander of the fleet form Quijote III, “that you have quite the renovation project going on here, and we have to commend you. Taking on a project of that scale is very admirable. And the foresight that involves! I think we could ...
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Fallen

By submission | June 18, 2016
Author : Kristin Kirby I caught him in my arms as the others ran for safety in the shelters. The fires began to die around us. I sat on the ground and held him while the sliver rays took their inevitable toll. An agonizing way to go, the rays. They moved fast and deadly through your ...
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Consecutive

By submission | June 17, 2016
Author : Carter Lee Keith Samuels woke when the lights came on, and while it had been getting harder for the sallow-faced senior citizen to pull himself out of bed of late, this morning it proved impossible. It was only with supreme effort that he managed to turn on his side, allowing ...
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Unmoored

By Julian Miles | June 16, 2016
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer “Where did we find him?” “Outside a pizzeria on the Alpenring in Walldorf.” “Obviously a man who travels first class.” Hans chuckled. Dolf stretched: “So, before he vanished, on camera, from a locked cell, and the infestation of sharp ...
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Aster

By submission | June 15, 2016
Author : John Carroll The killer whale that I had dubbed Aster and the robotic companion dolphins that he was chasing erupted into view, flashing across the length of the viewing window and back out of our field of vision so quickly that by the time Maria could squeak with surprise ...
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Escape

By submission | June 14, 2016
Author : Bob Newbell The sound of the ship's klaxons faded over a span of a minute. "Air pressure is at zero, Captain," Ramirez heard a female voice say in south Vietnamese accented English from the speakers of his space helmet. "We're in hard vacuum throughout the vessel." Typical ...
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Mom and Dad’s First Teleportation Ring

By submission | June 13, 2016
Author : David Henson Mom's holo-image comes into focus in the viewbox. "Johnny, I'm glad you contacted us. You have to talk to your father." "Everything OK? Where is he?" He's usually next to her at the table when we talk. "He's been popping in and out all day with that darn ...
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Eternity Plan

By submission | June 12, 2016
Author : John Tippett After what seemed like an instant, he awoke. 700 years of cryostasis had passed like a good night’s sleep. Immediately he noticed the partially healed incision in his abdomen. “They all called me a fool, but who has the last laugh now?”, he smirked to ...
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The Pact

By submission | June 11, 2016
Author : Steven Journey I watched her sleep as I cradled the gun, pausing only to wipe the silent tears rolling down my cheek. We had made a pact last night, a deeper pact than even our wedding vows had been many years ago. I was about to betray that pack. I stared out at the ...
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Hills

By Julian Miles | June 10, 2016
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer Even before everything came apart, I hated hills. And, back then, I had gears. This old clunker only has one cog at each end. So there’s nothing for it but to push down on one side while hooking the other side under the pedal to pull up. If that ...
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