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Antique Pink Panties

By submission | March 28, 2015
Author : Suzanne Borchers Xoman yearned for the vast world outside the gates of her private hell. Her life was: follow the regulations or face the consequences, eyes in the back of your head, and sour-faced guards. She rubbed her temples where each day electrons purred positive ...
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The Last (pound of) Astronaut (flesh)

By submission | March 27, 2015
Author : Gray Blix "At that point, the technology was reliable, but human factors still caused failures. To continue manned missions, they had to modify us. News headlines screamed 'Astronauts Mutilated.' The public hated NASA, but we willingly submitted. All of us, in perfect health, ...
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This is How I Sleep

By submission | March 26, 2015
Author : Matt Forshaw This is how I sleep; in a sarcophagus amid the stars, my body quiet and unmoving. There is no blanket to keep me warm, no pillow, no mattress that I rest upon. I do not toss or turn. I do not shiver, though it is cold. My chest does not rise or fall, there is no ...
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Bioforms

By Duncan Shields | March 25, 2015
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer The ship had recently shaved a comet at close to metaspeed. Nowhere near light but still enough to cause pretty serious damage. With silicates, sparks would be flying around the cabin. Since they’d used the bios instead, it was juices and ...
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Salt

By submission | March 24, 2015
Author : A. Katherine Black Sweetie sat rigid with revulsion. Wet lumpy kale dotted with soft pine nuts lay rejected on her plate. She stared at the thickly curtained window, denied the right to watch the normal world go by. Relentless ticking of the grandfather clock echoed through ...
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This Man Needs Help

By submission | March 23, 2015
Author : Gray Blix The music was driving him crazy. Or rather, he feared, he heard music because he was already crazy. "Which came first" he asked himself loudly, so he could hear himself speak over the music, "the Louis Armstrong or the lunatic?" Others sorting through clothes in ...
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First Kiss

By submission | March 22, 2015
Author : Rick Tobin Tender tickles rippled through her as freshly wetted lips touched the delicate blonde hairs along her right wrist—slow, furtive, pressing hesitantly; the feelings were different than the peach or the park’s marble statue she so carefully disinfected. “What in ...
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Revolting

By submission | March 21, 2015
Author : Helstrom THE MAN It's been a long day. Lewis has been on leave for over a week now and I've taken up the slack. THE BOT I can't take this anymore. Every day, every single day, he makes me do it. Humans keep pet-slaves and measure their age by stretching it out to their ...
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Second to Last Man Standing

By Julian Miles | March 20, 2015
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer “At the sound of distant murder, there will be precisely three humans left.” I used to find Dave hilarious. These days, after nineteen years surviving the end of an age in his company, he’s been bloody irritating for about the last eighteen. Of ...
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Fodder

By submission | March 19, 2015
Author : Tony Giansanti We became aware we weren't alone in the universe when Ganymede disappeared. Well, that and all the small bursts of light which were actually massive explosions which were in the vicinity of Jupiter's moon just before it imploded. All those events were already ...
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The Theory of Fiction

By submission | March 18, 2015
Author : Gray Blix The theory of fiction is similar to the theory of gravity in that it's the best explanation for what we observe as reality. The average person knows that gravity is not a wishy-washy "theory" but rather an immutable force that must be reckoned with. Who among us has ...
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Tyrania

By Duncan Shields | March 17, 2015
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer It’s a little ticklish when the needles go in but the anesthetic keeps her from moving. It keeps her laughing on the inside. Grown from a vat of jaguar with a splash of greyhound and a swirl of human, she’s extremely thin and toothy. This is her ...
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Not Suitable

By submission | March 16, 2015
Author : Suzanne Borchers “How long have we been out from Base surveying these idiotic planets?” Shar slapped a metallic cloth on the shielded wall to collect filings from her husband’s work on a port glass. “I’m ready to slurp down some authentic concoction while slouching on a ...
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It's Not a Racial Issue

By submission | March 15, 2015
Author : Emily Stupar I’m falling and I’m not sure when it started, or when it’s going to end. Although, I do have some theories. Maybe I’m falling because I’m fulfilling a lifelong wish to go skydiving. There’s a bot instructor strapped to my back and all I can think is that I may as ...
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Flicker

By submission | March 14, 2015
Author : Leif Hansen Terra didn’t laugh. Not because I pushed my joke too far, as was typical, but because she suddenly realized what I was. Within the few seconds it took for me to deliver my puerile punchline, her mind had grasped the meaning of my eyes’ incautious flicker from blue ...
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Mutter

By Julian Miles | March 13, 2015
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer “Did you see them? Silver streaks through cumulus, probably an Andorini scout formation. It’s not like anyone here would recognise them.” Officer Peters looked over at the shuffling, muttering figure. Taking in the irregular gait, the handful of ...
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Time Streams

By Duncan Shields | March 12, 2015
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer If I was tripping, my colleagues must have been as well because we all saw it. Just us four janitors on the night shift, mops and brooms dropped, staring at the nightmare in the corner of the building. It spoke to us but I couldn’t see where its ...
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At The Bottom Of The Well

By submission | March 11, 2015
Author : Bob Newbell Consciousness returned slowly to Inderak and Wynep. Memory took a little longer but in short order the events that lead up to the present flashed back into recall: The malfunction with the hyperdrive. The failed attempt to enter orbit around the moon of the third ...
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