Retroactive Futurism
Author: Steve Smith, Staff Writer
Jodi pushed open Jane's door, knocking while it was already swinging inwards and waited until it had closed behind her before speaking.
"Next Tuesday at quarter past noon he'll have stopped Bob McKibbon's heart." The announcement was ...
Robots Are Our Friends
Author: Sam Davis
The wind swept down the valley, once dotted with trees but now covered in soot and ash, and rolled through the trench causing Elijah to pull his coat tighter around him. It didn’t help much, it really never did when winter set into southern Kansas. It was ...
It’s Not Like They’ll Miss It
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer
The last words my Pa said to me were: “Down where the rocks run free, and the colours run like blood.”
Not the traditional deathbed wisdom for the young buck, but certainly something to stay with one. After seventeen years of prospecting, ...
Dark Passage
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer
“Now I have a little time to think”, she whispers to herself without moving her lips. Nothing new in that.
Her escape pod lays upon a forlorn acid plain. A monotonous mountain-less sweep interrupted by nothing but the cusp edge of newly ...
High Noon
Author: KevS
I sit nursing the beer, the bar noise a background thrum. The place is full of tech voyeurs. My Fingers absentmindedly circling the jack at the back of my skull.
I used to grow my hair to cover it, now, well now I simply don't give a fuck.
I'm a remnant of ...
Toxic Relationship
Author: Rick Tobin
Joshua Vergiften shuddered, strapped within his tired, bruised ship plummeting through heavy cloud cover over colony UW26, an indistinct recent colonial outreach from Earth’s solar system. His goal: fresh provisions and clean water from a source he had ...
Space Oatmeal
Author: Richard M. O'Donnell, Sr.
Frank Blair woke up confused, but that was okay. Confusion in the morning was normal, a challenge. His caseworker used that word a lot. “Frank, you have challenges and that’s a good thing.” So when the robot woke him from his night-night ...
Relinquish / Metamorph
Author: Logan Thrasher Collins
Anabelle and Enrique lived on Mars in a prim antebellum cottage with white walls. Each morning, Enrique emerges and dusts away the maroon regolith which accumulates on the walls during the nighttime. He typically wears lime green overalls and ...
All rights reserved
Author: Philip Tudball
“You know what the worst part of it all is?” Harper reflected “It’s the codpiece. Definitely the codpiece. I mean the food is rubbish and my health plan is currently non-existent” Harper picked another louse from his hair, just to reinforce the point ...
He Wore Sorrow; She, the Crown
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer
The bright lights seem colder, shining from tall glass towers, set against a sky made starless by clouds. Nearer are the lights that adorn the forest of Christmas trees on the plaza above. Closer still are the control boards that flicker ...
Dirty Little Coward
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer
The Dentist turns onto Fremont Street. Pausing, he slips a hand beneath the lapel of his jacket and massages the laudanum that eases the needles that scratch in his chest.
The double-action Thunderer that hangs at his hip will feel ...
Faith Will Provide
Author: KevS
I watch them squabbling like vermin. Vicious, pathetic vermin. 3 months ago they arrived, answering the beacon. In 2 months they exhausted the food.
Like vermin they have numbers, so I watch, I wait.
In the first month, they harvested rocks, heating them ...
The Waymarker
Author: Philip Tudball
We explore. As a species, it is both what we do and defines who we are. It is what we have always done, since the first of us gazed outwards and wondered. We took ships and travelled out into the unknown, planting our flags on distant shores. The ...
Negotiations
Author: Rick Tobin
Charlene, a bubbly, buxom blonde graduate student from Rutgers, acting as a freshly appointed aide-de-camp to a hatchling President, turned sour overnight. Her daily briefing notes were disheveled, poking from her leather daily briefing binder, held close ...
A Pasture of Stars
Author: Mark Joseph Kevlock
"I'm finished at last."
Tommy pulled Mariel by the hand as they ran through the nearby woods.
"I've retrofitted the structure with twin rocket pods sufficient to achieve orbit."
Mariel did not know what her best friend was talking ...
Flowers From Another Time And Place
Author: Irene Montaner
“So, what is it?” Dan asks.
I don’t know. I think it’s a flower but I don’t remember its name. I add another brushstroke to my watercolour painting. Another red leaf, longer than all the other ones and I paint some green leaves too. Red and dark ...
Sonnengott
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer
I was going to say that everyone knows of Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid for many years, not knowing that the war had ended. But most, probably, do not. His war and its scattered detritus have now long since been replaced by ...
Arterial Drive
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer
I’m sitting in a luxurious café on the seafront at Torslit, watching ten-metre-tall purple waves break across the dome, when a news article catches my eye on the ever-present infofeed.
“Police today released the constructed image of a ...
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