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The Calm

By submission | January 17, 2015
Author : Ian Hill “You look like an angel.” the old woman croaked between breaths, her voice strained and genuine. She lay on her back in a large Peach Medical Industries bed, all arrayed in tubes and healing equipment. Allison Stafford looked down at her patient and beamed. “Now ...
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Aqueous Solution

By submission | January 16, 2015
Author : Bob Newbell "Ministers," said the large aquatic alien that looked like a hybrid of a dolphin and a spider, "this parliament must vote to approve the funds requested by the Director of the War Department to eradicate once and for all the blight of humanity from this ...
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Remote Angels

By Julian Miles | January 15, 2015
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer I am the reason for the silence. It is if there is an invisible column of peace centred upon me. Far to starboard, I see an entire flight of Black Dragon assault drones holding station. Upon detecting my regard, the lead drone tilt-salutes in my ...
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Colour Me

By Stephen R. Smith | January 14, 2015
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Eratz perched on the last of the big branches reaching out from the forest towards the massive clearing the space-farers had scorched into his landscape . His body stretched almost flush with the limb, lost in the blue leaves and rough ...
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The Futility of Flight

By submission | January 13, 2015
Author : Lydia Devadason The whirr of the surveillance drone broke the silence. Georgie looked beyond the mountains of waste and makeshift huts housing her family and the rest of the excludes; she scanned the sky above the perimeter fence to try to locate the sound. ‘Quick, pass me ...
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Relocation

By Duncan Shields | January 12, 2015
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer We are on a planet whose proper name is unpronounceable by us according to the aliens who left us here. We call the planet Here, Prison, Earth2, Re-earth, Zooplanet and many others names. We haven’t been here long enough for one single name to ...
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Awakening

By submission | January 11, 2015
Author : Michael Hughes Remer opened his eyes, but the room was coming into focus more slowly than it should have. The synthetic glare of the fluorescent bulbs made it difficult to think. Where was he? He searched his mind for the last thing he could remember, but kept coming up ...
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Interview With A Dictator

By submission | January 10, 2015
Author : Bob Newbell (Thunderous applause over a musical flourish) "Thank you! And welcome to 'Interview With A Dictator'! We've got the old quantum teleporter warmed up and ready, so let's bring on tonight's guest!" (Applause) (Computer voiceover) "Tonight we have a despot from ...
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Box of Rage

By submission | January 9, 2015
Author : Rollin T Gentry In the lift, Lieutenant Andrews asked herself how she, of the two hundred telepaths in the fleet, had been so unlucky as to be assigned to the Vulcan's Anvil, a third rate science vessel with an idiot for a Captain. She wondered what his latest discovery ...
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Revolution

By submission | January 8, 2015
Author : Connor Harbison The villagers accepted the occupation as a fact of life. After all, where were they to go? The spaceport was heavily guarded, the surrounding jungles were filled with ravenous monsters and cannibal tribes, and beyond them the jagged mountains offered even less ...
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The Spectator

By submission | January 7, 2015
Author : Elijah Goering The light from the unstable star took four hours to reach the scientific survey ship that was orbiting it. Consequently, it was four hours after the warning was sent before the ship's one man crew reacted to it. The star was now too unstable, and the jump gate ...
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Walk-in Bistro

By submission | January 6, 2015
Author : Rick Tobin One unusual woman carved through me—cutting rivers in my desert landscape. I met Rebecca during my second career—writing, which was stalled. My haunt, when hunting ideas and caffeine, was a spartan coffee shop near San Antonio. The Walk-in Bistro had a counter ...
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War No More

By Julian Miles | January 5, 2015
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The mists swirl about our feet and the cold blues of brushed steel surfaces surround us. There is distant hubbub, like a monster stirring in its lair - which is an accurate analogy. The Major’s eyes open and focus on mine. She sits up: “War?” ...
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Spectacular

By submission | January 4, 2015
Author : David Botticello We only discovered them by mistake. Waiting out in space, watching, listening. Deliberating. We had this exploration drone, for a comet. It was supposed to land, take samples, send back pictures and analysis—you know the deal. The physics of the thing was ...
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Frblls

By submission | January 3, 2015
Author : Gray Blix The first one I saw was at the auto repair. My neighbor, Al, recommended Hans, who fixed a problem even the dealer couldn't find and did it in one afternoon for only fifty bucks. "I hope the guy's still in business," Al said. "I told him he needs to charge more. ...
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Divinity Rescinded

By Duncan Shields | January 2, 2015
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer I create gods. So far I've created sixty­eight. If one puts an all­powerful deity in the middle of a primitive society, one can get a lot accomplished. It's essentially a victimless crime except for the centuries of religious squabbles that can ...
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Fideles Regenerati

By Stephen R. Smith | January 1, 2015
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Zenn realized fairly quickly he'd misunderstood the conversation. Terrance Hopter had said "I'd like to hire you. Party at the beach house, Friday night, seven thirty." Zenn agreed, and upon asking about the dress code Mr Hopter had said ...
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Trapped

By submission | December 31, 2014
Author : Philip McNeill Kris looked out the viewport into the void of space. She hated it here. She hated space, she hated the ship, but most of all she hated the engineers who still hadn’t got the gravity turned back on. It was like a prison. There was a small hiss as the door ...
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