Last Minute Code Push
Author: Katlina Sommerberg Joe has until the automatic build at 12:05 am sharp to submit his feature. It’s a stupid button that does in one click what used to take five, and the UX designers loved it in his presentation last month. It hadn’t been done before because…
read moreCuriosity
Author: Samuel Stapleton “What do you think it is?” I asked as Clarence stared at the dataset I had collected. By accident. He was stumped, so I went to get Sean to see if she could help. “I promise it’s worth your time,” I said as I walked into her office. “If you…
read moreThe Charge of the Iron Brigade
Author: Jae Miles, Staff Writer We raise our fists and give a round of hearty ‘hurrahs’ for our intrepid leader. He waves from the engine deck of his Chieftain before clambering up into the turret and taking command position at the top hatch. He brings a loud hailer…
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Author: Mina There was a pause in the trial being held in the starship court Serendipity just before the cross-examination began. If the wall behind the Alpha Nebula circuit judge’s chair had not been filled with stars, the room could have been anywhere. Only the…
read moreThe Trans-Universal Remotes
Author: Joshua Fagan Universe 277A: After a decade spent wandering Andromeda, General Louis Patterson arrived at the conclusion that his dream of ruling an entire galaxy was nothing but a cheap fantasy, something out of the discount paperbacks he’d read as a child….
read moreThe Reflection Nebula
Author: Bill Gillard Vic bellied up to the counter at Plaskett’s Diner and ordered a donut and coffee, black. He smiled, waited for the waitress with the glistening bald head—to each her own—to respond with a smile at his joke, but she dropped the menu in front of him…
read moreGift
Author: Ken Poyner I do not know what I want to be today. The people who serendipitously gave me the ability to wrap ambient electromagnetism around my DNA and in seconds remake my body thought I would have a natural state, some pleasant default configuration that I…
read moreAlternate Self
Author: Arun Bahari It has been four months since Mary came from her reality to this reality. The migration between alternate realities was legalized last year. There are two laws for migration. First, your alternate version should be dead, and second, you can not go…
read moreShielded
Author: David Henson I extend my personal force shield to encompass the cart when I get inside the grocery store. Heading for the bread aisle, I push a little too close to a woman. Our shields glow slightly when they graze, and we squeeze past each other like two…
read moreThe Great Red Spot Freestyle Championships
Author: Michael Anthony Dioguardi Chris dipped down on a spiraling vortex and examined the jet stream beneath him. He crept in on his board and inspected the area—as if searching for something. “And we’re back at the 113th annual Great Red Spot Freestyle…
read moreI Will Miss You In The darkness
Author: Palmer Caine There is nothing until the buzzing and ringing disturbs my deepest thoughts, my darkest dreams, and I am awoken. I’d heard tales of dreams unlike any terrestrial imaginings where memories are colours organised in a table of elements. A place where…
read moreCool-Stuff
Author: R. J. Erbacher I’m writing this down because at some point there are going to be questions and I want to keep the facts straight. And no computer, don’t want anybody catching wind of this. About three weeks ago I got a call that my grandparents had died. Not…
read moreConvergence
Author: Arkapravo Bhaumik As I recall, at first it was a middle-aged woman from Sicily, Ariana Antonella. It was then I realized that though the feminine anatomy is a work of art but it felt out of context as I am derived from a man. On the brighter side, it was very…
read moreContent For Optics
Author: Morrow Brady The four magic words. Complimentary Bed and Breakfast. Javed smiled. Somewhere, someone needed his critique. Rolling green countryside sprawled forever below the single white dot of a departing pod-cab. Mossy grey granite outcrops peppered the…
read moreThis Was Never Our Intent
Author: Renée Jessica Tan When we had isolated the predator gene, it was with all good intentions. The idea was to build a hyper-focused, unrelentingly driven, unapologetic and fearless Alpha. We knew these characteristics aren’t always considered a positive in…
read moreJacknifed
Author: David Barber “Yes, I remember this one. His ex called it in. We found a bookcase full of porn. Vintage 2D on magnetic tape,” said Frank. The woman sitting on the other side of the desk is Jan Fierro, the Department chief. “When you say we, for the record.”…
read moreSavage and Chill
Author: Jae Miles, Staff Writer A savage chorus rises about us and I start running, dragging Mitchell with me. “What? Why are we running? I didn’t see anything.” I say nothing and try to hit my sprinting speed with a hundred-kilo doughball in tow. “Slow down! They’re…
read moreOne In 7.9 Billion
Author: Timothy Goss Mother watched from the kitchen. Johnny witnessed her disgust, she no longer recognised her son, neither recognised nor understood him. It was strange, one night three weeks ago he went to bed and everybody was acting and speaking normally, using…
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