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Like Magic

By submission | August 11, 2016
Author : Samuel Stapleton She shuts the door hurriedly behind her. Gently sets her pack on the floor. “Raey, you were supposed to be back hours ago. Why wouldn’t you answer your comm?” She freezes, too caught up in whatever she’d been doing to have remembered to craft a ...
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The Wreck of the Varangio

By Julian Miles | August 10, 2016
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer First we got lost. Then we got ambushed. If we hadn’t got lost, I’m sure that wouldn’t have happened. Which would have saved the lives of sixty-eight beings, and let me avoid drifting through uncharted space in a Terlestraian escape pod: not ...
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Haptic Misfire

By featured writer | August 9, 2016
Author : Olivia Black, Featured Writer Reese stood admiring the view through the floor-to-ceiling windows in the Port Authority’s departure waiting room. He watched the crowded “open air” market several stories below as people went about their business unaware they were being observed.
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The Internet of Things

By submission | August 8, 2016
Author : Philip Berry . Elizabeth, good morning. I have laid out your favourite summer dress Is it warm out then? . Warmish. 17 degrees Not enough. Get me my blue trousers will you. I feel the cold too easily nowadays. . No. The dress will do Err... Sarah, ...
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Radiation Afterburn

By submission | August 7, 2016

Author : Timothy Marshal-Nichols

“That leg is pretty, that leg is pretty, and that leg is pretty, and that one, and that one, just look at that one, so pretty, and that one, gorgeous, and this one's especially pretty, ...

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Run

By Stephen R. Smith | August 6, 2016
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Are you listening? I'm going to Initiate a conversation, albeit a little one sided, and when I'm done, there will be a Test. Seven, Six, Two, Two, Five, Zero. Sorry, that's not part of the ...
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Visiting Mom

By submission | August 5, 2016
Author : Gray Blix "So, dad, did you think about what I asked you the last time we chatted?" "I don't want to think about it." "Come on, join me tomorrow. It would make me so happy to talk to you both, like we were a family again." "But it wouldn't be the same, because... because, ...
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Meeting of the Minds

By submission | August 4, 2016
Author : Bob Newbell The tiny spacecraft skimmed the atmosphere of the turquoise world that orbited Tau Ceti. When the ship had completed its aerobraking maneuver, a small sphere emerged from it and plunged toward the planet's surface. The sphere grew larger and became buoyant, ...
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Joy

By submission | August 3, 2016
Author : Kenny A Chaffin Joy was shunned by society. She chose therefore to spend much her time alone; in her room, in her cubicle at work, listening to music on the bus, eyes downcast to avoid attention or conversation. For her mother it was a difficult pregnancy with morning ...
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The Love of a Sister

By featured writer | August 2, 2016
Author : Olivia Black, Featured Author Eve poked at her bowl of noodles again. She hadn’t been hungry when she’d ordered that food over an hour ago. Now, the broth was cold and the noodles gelatinous.
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The Bear Follower

By Julian Miles | August 1, 2016
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer Across a starfield as vast as it is unexplored, two pinpricks of light crawl. Getting closer, their crawling progress is revealed to be a trick of distance. Both specks are moving at tremendous speed. “How far, Davey?” “Less than an ...
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The Hair of Nazareth

By submission | July 31, 2016
Author : Beck Dacus The year is twenty - twenty seven. An archaeologist squats in the dirt, staring stupidly at a hair pinched between her fingers. An outside observer would have no idea that she was marveling at her way to bridge science and religion. For years she had felt like ...
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One Man’s Trash …

By submission | July 30, 2016
Author : Edward D. Thompson (edacious) It’s just like hunting, Marcus thought, as he scanned the past at double speed. Know where the good spots are, know how to watch and wait, and mostly, it was just dumb luck. He let himself go, drifting up the current of the past, waiting, ...
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Nothing But Time

By Stephen R. Smith | July 29, 2016
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Edison wasn't immediately aware that anything serious had happened. The room he was in, a specially lined, sealed containment bunker in a facility designed for these kinds of tests, was devoid of any feature that would change noticeably. ...
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Gathering

By submission | July 28, 2016
Author : Rick Tobin “Get down!” Carol yanked private Pennington to the ground below low walls of disintegrating bricks. Enemy snipers pinned them. “Sorry Captain. Just wanted a look.” Pennington stared at his commander. The ship’s cook was learning the game. An alien shootout ...
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A Rose by Any Other Name…

By submission | July 27, 2016
Author : Arthur Carey Sacagawea stepped off the damaged recharging grid. Battery life registered in the “failure imminent” range. Within hours, the robot would become an immobile piece of junk in a deserted space station pummeled by raging solar winds and debris. The scientific team ...
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Witnesses

By Julian Miles | July 26, 2016
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer We don’t have the technology to make the instruments to understand what they do, let alone resist. Every eleven months or so, grey column descends from space and encloses a city. Twelve hours later it lifts. The population is dissolved and ...
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Foot Soldiers in The Zone

By Stephen R. Smith | July 25, 2016
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Aimee propped herself up against a transformer just outside the halo of the lone streetlight. A kilometer up the road in each direction, red and blue lights pulsed, parked cruisers discouraging vehicle traffic into this part of the city ...
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