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Something In The Water

By submission | April 1, 2011
Author : Martin Sumner We used to joke that they put something in the water. Cully was the first to go mad, when he was still only sixteen. They don't approve of that kind of language, of course; he had a 'nervous breakdown'. Started sending cigars in the post to his friends ...
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The End

By submission | March 31, 2011
Author : Iain Maloney I can’t recall how long I’ve been here. I sleep at odd hours: fitfully, but in bursts. Because everything else has changed, I do not heed the dregs of the old world. Dark and light, night and day. To the west; where the sun slinks away was my home. It ...
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World

By Duncan Shields | March 30, 2011
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer He based the intelligence of his machine on the process of sibling rivalry. It had long been noted that a constant challenge and attacking of one’s ideas resulted in stronger ideas. A lifelong bond formed around that rivalry but more ...
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Of Stars And Brilliance

By submission | March 29, 2011
Author : Sevanaka It is an unnatural sensation. A man is meant to stand; two feet solidly planted on the ground. Oh, for the sweet touch of earth between toes, grassy shoots tickling bare feet. Instead there is only a sinking sensation while the wind whispers its secrets; its ...
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Looking Glass

By submission | March 28, 2011
Author : N. Thomas Parshall Intro to Quantum Mechanics was the hardest class that I took during my junior year. String theory, field theory, and the Planck constant battered against the walls of my mind, and I was grasping none of it. Weeks, than months passed and my grade ...
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Protocol

By submission | March 27, 2011
Author : Eric Poch "So there's nothing I can do?" "That about sums it up, yes" Martin had been pacing in a damp field for the better part of an hour, speaking to his companion in increasingly hostile tones. "Then why the hell did you tell me!?" Martin rubbed his hands ...
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The Vote

By submission | March 26, 2011
Author : John Tudball A chorus of personalised beeps and buzzing erupts from our laps and in record time we're tapping on our Panels to see if this is the one, if this is the vote we've been waiting for. A chorus of groans, Pete swears at his screen. It's not. "What did you ...
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The First Warp Drive

By Patricia Stewart | March 25, 2011
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer The ship shook violently as it unexpectedly dropped out or warp. The captain was thrown to the deck where he could feel the tell-tale vibrations of explosions occurring somewhere on the ship. He climbed to his feet and activated the ...
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The Mutation Parlor

By submission | March 24, 2011
Author : Jeremy Koch Sasha lay on a rust-flecked chrome slab under the rewriter's dim green light, wincing slightly every few seconds as the self-service amputator locked into place. It slid a sequential series of nine hollow spikes, each six centimeters long, easily into the ...
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Final Exam

By submission | March 23, 2011
Author : Ian Eller At Gemin’s command, “Begin,” Arwa activated her station along with the rest of the students. The lab, spacious and white, was bathed in intense light from a dozen moments of creation. Arwa sacrificed a brief moment to look up from her work station. Ever so ...
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Fly Trap

By submission | March 22, 2011
Author : Brian Varcas

OK, time to get going again. I mean, what else is there to do but try to get back to the ship? I can see it only a hundred yards away. It shouldn't take more than another couple of hours to reach it.

If only we'd known before we landed that this planet ...

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Biding

By Stephen R. Smith | March 21, 2011
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer The conversation had started in the lab, but while I could work there, I never was at home with my thoughts in that space. I suppose that's how we came to be in the study. I took a scotch, neat. He declined. "You can't honestly be ...
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Anthropic

By submission | March 20, 2011
Author : Ian Rennie The sky is bright, not noonday bright but rather like the flickering of old fluorescent tubes. You can make out clouds against the light, a sort of dirty grey, but nothing beyond them. No stars any more. Everyone's panicking, and I'm not sure why I'm ...
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Seeding

By submission | March 19, 2011
Author : John Wallace The subtle, pulsing "bing" alert of an unread MindMessage -- MM for short -- punctuated the Jazz-Trance track she was listening to through her MindTunes channel stream. She switched to the chatView window on her interface, minimizing the music to the ...
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The Things Between Us

By submission | March 18, 2011
Author : Jason Frank This is how it ends. I turn the corner with coffees for us and everything, everything, is on the front yard. I don't know how she did it (I wasn't gone long) or how she did it (I thought she loved me). My eyes race over it all and stop at the porch, at ...
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Traveler

By Duncan Shields | March 17, 2011
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer He reeled out of the stinking alley into me. He was nearly eight feet tall and looked too skinny to stand. His hair was several different colours but as I looked at it more closely, it appeared to be made of metal. It sparked just ...
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The Wrong Question

By submission | March 16, 2011
Author : Jordan Whicker We'd been asking the wrong question all along. It was first posed by some fringe intellectuals: “Do they feel pain?” Initial research showed that yes, stimuli that might be regarded as 'painful' would invoke any number of reactions that could be ...
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The Anomaly

By Patricia Stewart | March 15, 2011
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer Lieutenant Robinson studied the sensor readings. The Captain stood behind him, patiently waiting for his science officer’s technical assessment. “It’s clearly artificial, sir,” Robinson finally said. “Although its surface composition ...
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