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By submission | October 13, 2015
Author : Brad Crawford {BLINK} There it went again. This time he noted the time and severity of the event. For the last two days or so, Dr. Samuel Coughlin, world-renowned physicist had experienced a strange phase in/phase out effect. It started with a gradual feeling as though he was ...
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Watching the Telemetries

By Julian Miles | October 12, 2015
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer “Section three. All clear.” That’s Christov. Which is clever, because according to the heartbeat monitor I have, Christov’s heart stopped beating ninety-four seconds ago. My claw comes down on the ‘Section Three Purge’ button as people about ...
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In The Light Of The Red Sun

By submission | October 11, 2015
Author : C. James Darrow There was a time when man set his eyes on the stars beyond our own. Yet as the centuries passed man still found himself stuck on the world upon which he began. Through our own advancements we eventually found ourselves setting foot onto the Moon and Mars. But ...
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The Collated Shore

By submission | October 10, 2015
Author : John K. Webb This was not South Carolinian white sand beach. He'd instructed Jacobson—the spherical little Dispensation Drone with its twitching antennae and the prying, bulging crystalline eye—to direct them to a nearby exoplanet with a white sand beach. Corporal Weyer had ...
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Recruiter

By submission | October 9, 2015
Author : Rick Tobin “Major, Allen’s alive. He got through Iraq. He didn’t disappear in a Nevada training mission.” Reed Winston leaned over the small table in a cramped conference room filled with file boxes, copy machines and a coffee mess. Burned coffee aromas perforated Reed’s ...
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Of Stars and Disposition

By submission | October 8, 2015
Author : Sevanaka It is an unnatural sensation. A man is meant to act; meant to take measured, deliberate steps after rational thought. Oh, for the keen, decisive edge of ideology, or the white-hot flurry of passion to drive thought from mind to hands. Instead there is only the unknown ...
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The Perfect Match

By submission | October 7, 2015
Author : Bhavin Siri After an hour, Jason realized that he did not like his “perfect match” very much. Everything was supposed to be in order. He had turned eighteen, and he was meeting his chosen partner for the first time through “Match Made in Heaven”, a service that you entered as ...
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CodeMe

By submission | October 6, 2015
Author : Morrow Brady As long as it was bug-free, they didn't care how the code was written. That is why I built the interface. 
The interface subdivided the programming work into tiny code packages and globally farmed it out using Layman's code. Before long, I was earth's ...
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Practice Day

By submission | October 5, 2015
Author : Ian Clarke The air-bike hovered perfectly still and silent a couple of cms above the floor of his apartment. It resembled an old style jet-ski he had seen once but had a toughened clear canopy that completely enclosed the rider. He tapped the console and selected his ...
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Indistinquishable

By submission | October 4, 2015
Author : Rocky Hutson Opius peeked out from behind a small birch tree. Seeing no sign of his adversary, Burhan, he stepped into the open. He'd only gone a few yards toward the portal when Burhan stepped into the open and pointed at him. ...
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Cold Night

By submission | October 3, 2015
Author : Sarah Mendonca “Luke.” Slumped in the alley, the woman repeated the name like a prayer, mostly forgotten long ago. No, that wasn’t it. “Jason.” Passersby ignored her: just another failed rebel unable to move on. She looked at them all, so young and old, so clean and ...
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Hollow Medal

By Julian Miles | October 2, 2015
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer There is always an uncertainty after you’re restored. The time between your last backup and the point when you died is an unknown. You can get various synopses if you ask, and you can catch up with the events via media reports or conversations with ...
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NanoCop

By submission | October 1, 2015
Author : Morrow Brady I sensed the click of my empty handgun moments before I heard it, while impact shrapnel, ricocheting across the upturned chassis of my downed cruiser sang out cries of retreat. 
With the soft belly of vulnerability in the air, I made my exit from the ...
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Hummingbird

By submission | September 30, 2015
Author : José A Harkhan He flew that night. His dreams flooded with visions of ecstasy. The blue of that river. The black of those eyes. They hove into the light of day that shone through the Pleasure-Dome’s glass shell. Like white-cloaked wraiths. Fixated. Forgotten legions in a ...
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Emotion

By submission | September 29, 2015
Author : Henry Peter Gribbin Most of us have been home alone late at night when we heard a strange noise coming from downstairs. Clutching a baseball bat or a golf club we proceeded slowly down the steps, all senses on alert. Finding nothing we felt a sense of relief and headed back ...
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Mechanical Gentleman

By submission | September 28, 2015
Author : Mike Corrao “Come one, come all. See the beautiful intricacy that is my friend right here,” The salesman slid to the side of the stage, moving as one with the curtain behind him. On the old wood floor stood two metal feet, in shoes like hooves. They held up a man who was not ...
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The Voider

By submission | September 27, 2015
Author : Rollin T. Gentry Dr. Morris turned away and tapped a few times on the holopad projected from the bracelet on his left wrist. "Well, Ensign Peters, one thing's for sure. You are not turning invisible, or into a ghost, or whatever it was you called it." Jared ...
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Hollow

By submission | September 26, 2015
Author : Sam Larson You couldn’t even call it rain, this weather. Just an insistent, pissing drizzle that creeps its way into your collar and your shoes so that, suddenly, you’re soaking wet. That jingle from the infonets keeps running through my head, “You’ll never get wet when you’ve ...
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