Possession is nine-tenths

Author : Gray Blix I'm awake before dawn. No alarm, but my internal clock must have a reason. Another job interview today? Can't remember. Might as well get up, check messages, have something to eat. Might as well get up. Can't move. Frozen in my favorite sleeping ...

Lost Love Lost

Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer I hear the mugger running off as the echoes of the gunshot fade. Opening my eyes, I’m still standing. There’s a bleeding body at my feet that hadn’t been there when I closed my eyes. He rolls over. “Michael!” He looks up, tears ...

Varsity Blues

Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Jessica sat in the corner booth at the back of O'Tooles with the best sight line to the door. She wanted to see him when he arrived, Taylor Jacobs, highschool sweetheart. Well, he might have been. He'd always been polite, and they grew ...

The Pursuit

Author : J.P. Quinn Arron sat on an outcrop of rock. He’d stopped to watch the sunset. He knew he shouldn’t have, but he couldn’t help it. It was the shift from copper to blue. That extended interlude between day and night, where, for a few fleeting moments, he could almost be home. A ...

Concerned

Author : Daniel Fairbairn A wind that started a billion years ago ended today. It sighed past my apple tree and ended its journey. The breath of an age of warriors, poets, beasts and storms lay in the marks in the dust. The grass stood still as if in some moment of ...

Alive!

Author : Matthew Harrison It was a struggle, but they managed to get the trainees ready just in time for the cocktail. “I don’t see why we need to bother,” Simon said as he surveyed the work. He had crumpled his suit, and didn’t have a spare. “We can just explain the ...

Getaway Car

Author : Bob Newbell Wachter ran out of the bank just as the alarm sounded. It was not an auspicious beginning to what Wachter had imagined would be a long and successful criminal career. The teller had initially thought he was kidding when he'd asked for $20,000 in cash. ...

Red Planet

Author : Alicia Cerra Waters “Don’t touch that,” I said as I slapped Henry’s hand. His doughy cheeks formed a pout as he let go of the zipper of his thermo suit. Somehow, hiking through the mountains of a planet on the brink of being engulfed by a dying star had not helped ...

Two Legs Bad

Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer I look human. In this new world, that is freakish. I am stared at with disgust. My taboo choice of structure is offensive. I have two legs, two arms, no tail, a cranium and a chest cavity. I walk around, balancing from stilt to stilt, ...

Old Habits

Author: Steve Smith, Staff Writer The bench seat complained loudly as Thom7 lowered his armoured bulk into it. Waitresses hovered near the cash register nudging and whispering to each other before one, having apparently drawn the short straw, ventured over. "Would you ...

The Hive

Author : Leanne A. Styles “Welcome to your new life,” the foreman says, thrusting a set of gardening tools and a pair of overalls at me. I take them and file in line behind my little brother. “Have you ever seen so much green in your life, Della?” my brother says, ...

A Better Spycatcher

Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer My dad was a spy. A really good one, according to mum. I couldn’t get her to understand. How could he have been any good if he got caught? It meant there was a better spy, or spycatcher, out there. That was who I wanted to be. Twelve ...

Waiting

Author : Callum Wallace "Forward! Move forward!" I duck the humming blue blow as the throng presses me onwards. "How much further?" Davos looks afraid, scared of the dark, frightened of the ubiquitous pressing weight above. I grip his hand, "We'll know soon ...

Zealotry

Author : Bob Newbell As the sun went down over the giant dome that covered Mesogaea on Mars, moisture condensed on the dome's inner surface. Soon, it was raining over the enclosed metropolis. Detective Vogt had read that rain was common on Earth before the Great Asteroid Collision. But he ...

Revelations And Resolutions

Author : Perry McDaid (Falcon) Revelation did not come as a rosy warm feeling of wonder, but a rending, ripping divestment of accepted resentment. It left a vacuum: a void greater than that between his adopted planet and the existence into which he had first … ‘been born’. This space ...

Seven Years or Always Read the Fine Print

Author : Travis Gregg Indentured servitude has been illegal for centuries, at least on Earth. Mars though, Mars is the new frontier. The Wild West. On Mars a lot of things that used to be illegal are being revived. The deal was seven years of labor, seven years of running ...

Noodles

Author : James Riser Tetsuo kept a collection of five hundred yen and one hundred yen coins that was worth a lot of money to an antique dealer. Instead, he used them on a noodle vending machine set against the wall of a hollow, ancient building near, what history said, was Akita Port ...

Busy

Author : Callum Wallace The heavy perfume of roses assaults my nostrils; the smell of youthful summers spent in glittering woodlands, diamond rivers, fields of grass blowing in the wind. I barely remember now. I stink of my work; darkness, shit and fear. The rank taste sits ...

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