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Walkers: Akira and Brenna

By submission | February 12, 2016
Author : Callum Wallace They stepped into the city, ignoring the barrage of smells assaulting their nostrils. People swam in and out of view, chatting animatedly, gracing the travellers with only the most cursory of glances. The first Walker patted her Pair Mate gently on the ...
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They Shall Leave None

By Julian Miles | February 11, 2016
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The Arnen are beautiful people, even more so when they are angry. Consequently, we have been seeing a lot of heartrendingly beautiful people killing us. We are getting slaughtered, and a few people are beginning to fear extinction. The few voices ...
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This Is The Most Important Job You Have To Do

By submission | February 10, 2016
Author : Danielle Bodnar Listen. In the basement, there is the shelter. You’ll find everything you need: canned goods, camping gear, cell phone, travel router, multilingual slang phrasebook. Inside the phrasebook there is a list of numbers and letters. This is the code to unlock the ...
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Gift of the Gods

By submission | February 9, 2016
Author : Travis Gregg The grizzled man, draped in furs, trudged his way up the mountain side. The morning air was crisp and he could see his breath as he slowly made his way to the crevice. The location was a sacred secret and he checked behind him often, double backed more than ...
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Spider Bytes

By Stephen R. Smith | February 8, 2016
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer They waited at the mouth of the service corridor, the mezzanine railing just a few meters away. Above them somewhere, the heavy thumping of the security spider marked its progress in its pursuit of them. Across an open space broken at ...
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Network Wisely

By submission | February 7, 2016
Author : Suzanne Borchers Within a huge classroom, Professor Stella watches what appears to be a wild party. Twelve divergent beings converse in languages of uttered speech, thought, movement and touch. Shouts, laughter, and slaps resound. Is this a scene of galactic insanity? ...
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Fin

By submission | February 6, 2016
Author : Christos Tsirimokos You would think living in paradise is easy. And it is, physically, since our creations provide for everything. But mentally? Have you tried to keep sane when you have nothing interesting to do? Even the most extreme experiences can become trite given ...
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The Prostitute in the Pond

By submission | February 5, 2016
Author : Ben Sixsmith John Byrne woke up, a hundred and ten years after he had died. He had the vague impression that he had been sitting at his desk, but now he was suspended in the air. He tried to move his arms and legs but found they were immobile. “Mr Byrne?” John found it ...
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Round

By submission | February 4, 2016
Author : Beck Dacus “Sorry,” Merida said, “but why did we let him come aboard with a gun?” She looked warily at Jonathan's holstered pistol, his hand guarding it from her and preparing to draw it. “You do know why he's here, right?” Vennix asked her. “Right?” “Yeah. To show him the ...
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From Region V

By submission | February 3, 2016
Author : Jared Lynch The water quit flowing from the taps shortly after the sirens stopped. I hadn’t paid my rent in three months, but I didn’t expect to receive an eviction notice. None came. There hadn’t been a train for four months. Karen and I were always in before curfew. At ...
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Friends Forever

By submission | February 2, 2016
Author : Elle B Sullivan The taxi pulled up outside of the school, right into the center of the large circle dive. This driveway had been the barrier between me and the rest of the world throughout my entire childhood - and I was terrified to leave it. My caretaker walked me to the ...
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Retribution

By submission | February 1, 2016
Author : Bryan Pastor An officer sprinted down the hall, past superiors and subordinates alike. Nearing the end of the hall, he slid to a stop, upsetting two chairs outside the deputy legate’s office. He quickly set them back in place, then checked himself in the reflection of a ...
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Taze

By submission | January 31, 2016
Author : Chris McCormick There was no dramatic music swelling, no handsome actor reciting prose. Instead there was my friend the dev, lying on her back in the grass convulsing as the electricity ran through her, arms and legs unfolded from the lotus position she had assumed only ...
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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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