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Casting Memories

By submission | January 30, 2016
Author : Paul Alex Gray I must have been last to die. "Mountains? You're thinking of mountains." As she speaks the fog lifts and sunshine spills down upon a barrier of rocky hills. The ground trembles as the hills grow larger, becoming jagged peaks, white capped like teeth. Sunlight ...
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City Lights

By submission | January 29, 2016
Author : Mark Tremble ‘No moon, no stars,’ she used to tell him. She had been about two years old then and he used to carry her in his arms down their front path. They had been a little sad on those nights because the cloud cover meant there was no chance they could see the moon and ...
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New Under the Sun

By submission | January 28, 2016
Author : Janet Shell Anderson All our executions are political. Of course, that makes them right, and no one rich or well-connected dies. The poor man’s on his knees in his orange jumpsuit, with the red waves of the pitiful surf of this prison world, Kepler 435b/Gilgamesh, behind him, ...
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God Complex

By submission | January 27, 2016
Author : Tristan Krahn It was a miracle of science, a triumph of the Human mind over nature that allowed them the chance to be gods, but it was careless hubris that destroyed them. The Large Hadron Collider, the largest particle accelerator on Planet Earth: ten billion dollars worth ...
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Ghostsong

By submission | January 26, 2016
Author : Justin Permenter The Earth was silent upon the Last Day. The Great Mother, once resplendent in the verdure of youth, now wretched and barren in Her twilight, shuddered and trembled as tectonic forces slowly rent Her to pieces from within. She had outlived Her children by ...
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The Measure of a Man

By Stephen R. Smith | January 25, 2016
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Consciousness came back slowly, from the extremities in. First pins and needles in the fingertips and toes, then the crawling burn of some painful memory winding its way along the arms, up the legs, gathering speed until it exploded in a ...
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Saving Andie

By submission | January 24, 2016
Author : Lars H. Hoffmann “And for the love of humanity, please come save me.” Concluded the video. Andie’s voice very nearly broke towards the end of the sentence, making the plea sounding as heartfelt as possible. There was a moment of silence before anybody spoke. Jason looked ...
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Die Laughing

By submission | January 23, 2016
Author : Rob Francis Hyenas owned the dry, dead city. They watched as Abal guided the rover down the empty roads, rolling around and over the scattered debris of civilization. His home was gone now, forever. It seemed absurd. Ridiculous. Perhaps that was why he couldn’t stop ...
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The Message in the Moon

By submission | January 22, 2016
Author : Beck Dacus My team and I came to the exomoon Talursa expecting to find extraordinary things. Every new world was an exciting adventure for science-- life, evolving completely isolated from the rest of the galaxy, making completely new life forms. It was expected to change ...
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Let Me Tell You About Falling

By Julian Miles | January 21, 2016
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer CLOSED FOLIO ZERO-ONE (NEVER REVEAL) INCIDENT GTMO-379 TRANSCRIPT 241-6064 – REDACTED – SUBJECT REPLIES ONLY “There was a man called Zelazny who wrote of a monarchy who could travel parallel universes at will, able to switch from reality to ...
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Creative Currency

By submission | January 20, 2016
Author : John Collins I remember when they used to tell you that you can do anything. Now they say that machines can do anything. That is, except for one thing. There have been countless debates about the nature of intelligence, but one of the best, in my mind, is the argument that ...
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The Anniversary

By submission | January 19, 2016
Author : Benjamin A. Friedman Roland and Martine enjoyed their Diamond Anniversary gondola ride down 5th Avenue towards the Old Village, sitting together in comfortable quiet as their oarsman, a Latin-American boy named Robert, strained again the azure sea. The water level was low ...
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Traffic Barriers

By submission | January 18, 2016
Author : David S. Golding If seen from above, the highways appeared to be carved in symmetrical patterns. Beneath, the trails of people on foot were more spontaneous, clustered here around a cheap water spigot, there around a bus lot. Footpaths led tiny ways through the forests and ...
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IXAT

By submission | January 17, 2016
Author : Rick Tobin “Good Lord, where am I?” Taylor Smith, astronaut extraordinaire, sat nude, baffled and embarrassed on the plush back seat of a vehicle flying through unknown star fields. He could see all about the craft through the wrap around windows. His nakedness terrified ...
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“Immortality”

By submission | January 16, 2016
Author : Faris Naimi “Is that what you call a life?” The woman was shouting at him. She was wearing a black dress, like she was going to a funeral. She was beautiful, but her face was contorted with so much anger that you wouldn't expect it to be able to fit into such a small, delicate ...
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A Human Dream

By submission | January 15, 2016
Author : Cody Brooks "I tried! I tried!" The man called out. No one answered. All sound was an empty wind buffeting over crumbled rocks. A tree stood before him, grey and leafless, its bark peeling from the wind. The blood of the tree had withered and dried; now it was gone. The man ...
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Strawberry Fields Forever

By submission | January 14, 2016
Author : Rick Tobin “I wonder about the strawberry jelly, Gran Papa.” Madeleine’s brother Corso kicked at her feet beneath the sterile stainless steel table but instead struck a metal leg. He groaned softly as to hide his actions from the family figurehead. His black shock of hair, ...
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Multitasking

By submission | January 13, 2016
Author : J.A. Prentice Lily was halfway through a dissection when she got the first call, faintly buzzing in her skull. With a sigh, she blinked her eyes and was standing in the oak hall of an old mansion, under the shadow of an old moose head. She looked down at her fingers, seeing ...
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