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Coin Toss

By submission | October 14, 2008
Author : Chris Sharkey “Call it,” Doctor Knight instructed excitedly. “Call it?” Han replied inquisitively. “Yeah, call it. Heads or tails?” “You asked me to come down here for a coin toss?” Han was skeptical. Doctor Knight almost always had some ulterior motive. “Of ...
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Allegiance

By submission | October 13, 2008
Author : Brian Armitage Iskerreth stood before the assembly, manacled. The humans looked on, waiting. Listening. All was imminently silent. The Korrosk soldier straightened his back, his muscles shifting under his scales, his head quills flat against his scalp. He pressed his ...
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Company

By submission | October 12, 2008
Author : B. Zedan Periodically, the pilot wished he had company. There were some things that were just more enjoyable with another being around. Besides the obvious, there was chess. The ship's helpful AI, such a benefit when it came to the obvious, just didn't cut it at ...
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A Solution

By submission | October 11, 2008
Author : Bill Gale Showing every one of his seventy-two years, the speaker rose to podium of the vast granite chamber. He uttered a single word – "Order". The irony of this formality did nothing for the moods of the three dozen delegates, for whom standing in hushed rooms had ...
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Cypro

By submission | October 10, 2008
Author : Ben 'Inorian' Le Chevalier

I’ve been a cypro for a few years now. That’s a short way of saying I have a cybernetic prosthesis. Technically, I’m a cyborg as is any human with mechanical parts, but people don’t like the word. It’s been given too many bad connotations from old ...

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Deadly Fishconomist Assassins

By submission | October 9, 2008
Author : Andy Bolt Carlton Marx felt only mildly guilty for opening up slice portals in peoples’ thoracic cavities. He was doing it in the hopes of developing a method of deployment for his growing army of genetically engineered combat fishconomists - economist/sea creature ...
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Resistance

By Duncan Shields | October 8, 2008
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer It’s light outside which means that if we leave our hiding place, we will be seen and killed. Not too long ago, human history was exposed and swept clear. Everything we sent at them just bounced off. It's six months later and I have no ...
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Healer

By submission | October 7, 2008
Author : Glenn Blakeslee He led me past a tractor rusting in the rain, pushed aside chickens with his foot and opened the door to his little house. Inside, bleak light fell through dirty windows. "How much you gonna charge?" he asked. The house was cluttered with dirty ...
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Sickness

By Sam Clough | October 6, 2008
Author : Sam Clough, Staff Writer Sacha slumped down in a doorway, gathering her heavy clothes tighter around her. As a prophylactic measure, the cloth and leather were almost useless: it was less about protection, more about appearances. The door behind her was like every ...
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Belle of the Ball

By submission | October 5, 2008
Author : Matthew Forish My call sign is Belle – I don’t have a real name, just a designation: ASC-a217.5. I stand about four-foot-two - pretty short even for a girl - and weigh in at a paltry eighty-four pounds. There are plenty of children larger than I am. Of course, I was ...
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The Europa Transmissions

By submission | October 4, 2008
Author : Glenn Head Transmission 211. Is it on, Greg? Is it? Okay. Today our situation - stranded on Jupiter’s ice moon Europa - has worsened. Todd disappeared last night. He wasn’t in camp, by our ship, and we thought he’d gone on a surveillance trip. We found him dead ...
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Saint John

By submission | October 3, 2008
Author : Glenn Blakeslee It's a disease, I guess, an affliction. My body is bound to a parallel. No, not a geometric form, but a line around the earth. I'm bound to the 38th parallel. I woke one morning dizzy, with throbbing pain in my limbs and abdomen. I hurt for days, ...
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Radio Free Earth

By Duncan Shields | October 2, 2008
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer The aliens dug our tunes. It was sweet. They came to down to us in these big blue ships, all curves and awe-inspiring slowness through the clouds like settling continents. Freaked us right out. We, the human race, didn’t even try to ...
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Think Tank

By submission | October 1, 2008
Author : Ben 'Inorian' Le Chevalier

Insanity. That’s the first thing I thought when they told me about the project. Insanity.

I felt a sharp shock, followed by pain at the back of my head.

Well, there goes another one. Another one of the thousands they have taken from ...

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The Old Man and The Sea Redux

By submission | September 30, 2008
Author : Andy Bolt WELCOME, Chip Winkler, TO STORYWEB 9.0! PLEASE INPUT LITBASE: Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea LITBASE FOUND! LAUNCHING . . . Enrique was mindswiped by the storybot as he dangled from the 93rd floor window of the Kentaka building. ...
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A Study in Logic

By Patricia Stewart | September 29, 2008
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer Inspector Jeffery Lastrade greeted Philip Homes and Bruce Wattson at the entrance of the Metropolitan Police Headquarters in downtown London. “Thanks for coming on such short notice,” said Lastrade as he pumped Homes’ hand. “I ...
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Lifeboat

By submission | September 28, 2008
Author : Bill Lombardi He had been awake for seventy-two hours – twenty-four spent in an acclamation unit. His legs hadn’t adjusted yet and he had trouble standing, so he sat at an unshielded viewport in the common area looking off into space, sipping from a nutrient pack. ...
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Bug Catching

By submission | September 27, 2008
Author : Alec Ow

My parents always told me the Cold was a gateway bug. All throughout middle-school and for most of high-school I was pretty clean. Then I saw one of my friends coming to school with the sniffles.

He didn't really try to hide it from anyone, thinking back now ...

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