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Pest Control

By submission | January 13, 2012
Author : Sarah Crysl Akhtar They said no pets. I'd felt a little guilty, a little bit not quite truthful, but I hadn't made a home for it or anything, no tank on the windowsill; just sometimes carried it inside, from the garden, and then took it back out again. If it wanted ...
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The Uncanny Valley

By submission | January 12, 2012
Author : Page LePage My wife is angry. I have no idea what I've done. "DESTRUCTION SEQUENCE INITIATED." It's at times like these that I know my brother Shen was right when he told me I should have married something with more sophisticated logic calibration — or at least a ...
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The story about The Clouds Exchange

By Matt Thomas | January 11, 2012

If you are looking forward for some counseling when it comes to picking just the right personnel for your newly created business or already exciting corporation you want to expand, the Staffing Exchange is one immediate solution. Featuring fast and reliable staffing services, we can ...

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Revolution Out of Darkness

By submission | January 11, 2012
Author : Gordon Day The man was dressed in ivory and on his chest for all to see was a red bolt, declaring his allegiance to the Militant Atheist order. His audience did not know it yet, but he would be the last to publicly wear it. His lightly freckled cheeks begin to ...
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Googling Tinkerbell

By submission | January 10, 2012
Author : George S. Walker Before the EMP went off, the sky over Stonehenge had been aflitter with fairies scattering pixie dust. Agent Jack Bishop pulled off his mirrorshades as tourists around him tried to blink away the afterimage of the electromagnetic flash. "Mummy," ...
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Xenosympathizer

By Duncan Shields | January 9, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer Do I consider myself a citizen of Earth? Do I consider myself a human? Am I an alien sympathizer? Members of the council, I fear I no longer know what these questions even pertain to. They are meaningless sounds to me now with no more ...
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Greener

By submission | January 8, 2012
Author : Z. J. Woods Crowley said, "You sure you wanna do this?" I brushed at the front of the faded jumpsuit. Nothing on it, of course. Nervous habit. He took a long drag from his cigarette, sighed the smoke out. "Well," he said. Expecting me to fill the silence. With ...
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Edwin

By submission | January 7, 2012
Author : Suzanne Borchers Creak. Edwin stopped his writing stylus. The screen pulsated waiting for the next letter. Silence. Once more, he began gliding the stylus, writing his letters with meticulous care. Edwin did not know why this was necessary when thoughts could ...
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Dry Lightning & Providence

By submission | January 6, 2012
Author : Shaun.K.Adams South of his lofty position in Tempest stations observation tower, Kane De Souza observed a vast cyclonic column of dust drifting across the Syria Planum. He marvelled at its frenetic energy as it tracked slowly across the highest plateau elevations on ...
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Jen-6

By submission | January 5, 2012
Author : Erin Cole Dawn fractures through the glades of the development. Solar-paneled rooftops refract the cadmium light of sun and men prepare for their busy days, hefting briefcase to hybrid. Jen-6 wakes and rises erect. Inside a petite helmet, embedded with black silks, ...
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Nervous

By Julian Miles | January 4, 2012
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer It looks too soft. This thread-like network of blue filaments and their pale red host substrate cannot possibly give me my right arm back. For the eighteenth time, I reconsider my decision to volunteer for this experimental ...
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Skeletons

By Roi R. Czechvala | January 3, 2012
Author : Roi R. Cechvala, Staff Writer Helmut Rose made his way down the broad avenue to his office at the Aerospace Centre. He looked up at the hundred foot long banners displaying the movie star good looks of the President's face. Hitler's picture was everywhere. The only ...
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In Good Times and in Bad, Er, Never Mind

By Patricia Stewart | January 2, 2012
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer "Receiving a distress call, Captain," reported the communications officer of the SS Diciotti. "It's coming from Lavello III." "Lavello III?" repeated Captain Campbell. "What idiot would land on Lavello III? It's a death trap." "Captain," ...
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Fame

By Duncan Shields | January 1, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer My entire celebrity life is online for people. There are over a million people looking out through my eyes, breathing in time with me, feeling my exhilaration as six months of rehearsal come to a head and I perform my number-one hits to ...
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Orbital Debris

By submission | December 31, 2011
Author : Aradhana Choudhuri "No. There's no funds, Mr. Lawrence. None. We work with what we've got." "Then you have to repurpose this satellite, Mrs. President, or we start losing vital assets. We're deep in Kessler syndrome time — LEO and GEO are going to have one ...
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Glass

By submission | December 30, 2011
Author : TJMoore Sam squinted into the dimly lit cupboard, the all but extinguished ICL held out in front of him like a jar of fireflies. With a sigh he gave up on the fading lamp and began searching for the rye seeds by hand. He did like a good seeded bread and if he didn't ...
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Lost In Time

By submission | December 29, 2011
Author : Ian Rennie It's not really time travel. Not how that expression is traditionally meant, anyway. It has long been a maxim of those involved in my kind of research that you can look back and travel forward, but never the other way round. In a way, everything we know ...
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Goodbye Jenny

By submission | December 28, 2011
Author : Tris Smith She sat down on the bench, overlooking the local park. She and James used to meet here. It seemed a fitting place to say goodbye. After the operation, she might never come here again. Worse, she might never want to come here again. At 13, it had been ...
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