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Mind Over Matter

By submission | May 27, 2014
Author : Bob Newbell "Next on our program, an interview with Dr. John Zellinski, author of the bestselling book 'The Sapience Bomb: Understanding Cognitive Cascade Syndrome'. Dr. Zellinski, welcome to the show." "Thank you." "So, it's been 20 years since the containment breach at the ...
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Head in the Cloud

By submission | May 26, 2014
Author : Cosmo Smith I am knee-deep in snow, holding tight to a dying man. His name is Arkan and he is one of our best fighters. He has stayed alive for an unbelievable two hundred and forty days. Besides that, I know nothing about him. “Hold tight, we’re close,” a voice whispers into ...
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We're Bored

By submission | May 25, 2014
Author : M. J. Cooper “We’re bored.” It was the first message humans had ever received from a higher intelligence. The simple statement was met with cheers and applause from the crowd of scientists at San Diego’s Microsoft Cybernetics Lab. Two dozen of the leading scientists in the ...
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One For The Road

By submission | May 23, 2014
Author : Antowan Rajacel injected the cold neural serum deep into his spinal port. The chemical agent coursed through his nerves, sending a frigid surge throughout his body. “Assimilation complete, neural countdown commenced.” The mechanical voiced chimed flipping on a countdown ...
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From Our Correspondent

By Julian Miles | May 22, 2014
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer “There’s a lot to be said for old technology. Mainly: ‘ooh looky, spares’. Me and the old bus are both getting long in the tooth. But as she’s got six hundred years and I’m only approaching fifty, we’ll not embarrass the lady with ageist stuff. ...
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Condemned to the Void

By submission | May 21, 2014
Author : Bob Newbell "And let all men and women present be witnesses," the Legate was saying, "that what we now do we do without hatred and with a heavy heart. We act in the name of retribution, not revenge. We act in the name of justice..." The Legate's voice droned on. It was the ...
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Deathman

By submission | May 20, 2014
Author : George R. Shirer Jav wakes and the name of his latest assignment is waiting for him on the bedside screen. Simeon Fenchaw. There’s a file attached, giving particulars. Appearance, personality, preferences, patterns. It’s a workday and Fenchaw will be arriving at the transit ...
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Spock Monkey

By submission | May 19, 2014
Author : StanleyJames Gently washed, a warm grey and blue. A comforting fuzzy sock with two big Spock ears and those wide eyes. The eyes cannot see and the ears cannot hear, but the Monkey listens. Arms and legs flop akimbo, easy for clumsy hands to grab, and drag from room to room. A ...
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Buddy

By submission | May 18, 2014
Author : Roger ale Trexler The proximity claxon awoke him from a dead sleep. He jumped out of the storage container he used as a makeshift bed and yelled, “Buddy!” He ran down the corridor that led to the secondary communications center. As he opened the hatch, he heard a familiar ...
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The First Wasp Drive

By submission | May 17, 2014
Author : Brian Varcas John didn’t really understand what all the fuss was about. Ever since he sent out the email invitation for his demonstration he’s been inundated with offers of ridiculous amounts of money for the manufacturing rights for his invention. It looked like it was going ...
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Rabbits & Plastic Foxes

By submission | May 16, 2014
Author : P. S. Walker Day 2: Only day fucking two? I'm pretty sure time's measurements are inaccurate. I'm trapped in my kitchen by my home built robot. How insane that in a world where everything is connected I'm stuck in the only room without any sort of communication. At least ...
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Lie in Peace

By submission | May 15, 2014
Author : cchatfield The child hovers in the doorway, reluctant to abandon the light of the hall. “But it’s dark…” she whispers, “I don’t like the closet. Or the bed.” Her father pats the pillow and proffers a gently humming comfort-bot. “Don’t worry. I promise there’s nothing to be ...
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idog

By Clint Wilson | May 14, 2014
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer I am Charlie. I have been augmented with idog software. I can understand over 6000 words of English. I like food. I like warmth. I love my master. He navigates the garbage-strewn alleyways with the expertise of someone born post invasion. I am only ...
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Sprake

By Julian Miles | May 13, 2014
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer In a room devoid of décor, two chairs face each other across a table barely wide enough to be called a bench. Everything shows the khaki swirls of extruded Replast. In the left hand seat, a young man in filthy rags sits in a pose of tired ...
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Anything To Fit In

By submission | May 12, 2014
Author : Kirstie Olley My name is Leila and I used to be the queen bee at school. If I curled my hair, all the girls curled their hair. If I cut one side short and left the other long, everyone did. If I shaved the Queen of Hearts into the short side of my hair, my class became a deck ...
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Missed Connections

By submission | May 11, 2014
Author : Tyler Hawkins I only just missed you this time. Five millennia in the timescale of the cosmos is a needle in a haystack and then some. I was only 5 thousand years away from you but it seemed like it very well could have been any of the other times I arrived before the Milky ...
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Gold

By submission | May 9, 2014
Author : Roger Dale Trexler They found it. In the most impossible spot, in the most unlikely location, they found it. And the scientists were baffled. On the edge of explored space, Henry Frisk stared out the porthole of the survey ship. The nearby star was just close enough ...
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For the Children

By submission | May 8, 2014
Author : cchatfield It took only a moment of eye contact for the stranger to change his evaluation from “boy” to “young man.” It was a useless habit leftover from before the outbreak: assuming a young body meant innocence or an unblemished mind. Even the smallest child, a girl of ...
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