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I Would Know

By submission | August 17, 2014
Author : RM Dooley The rogue tampons rolling across the trunk floor and abandoned high heel tell me it’s a girl’s car. Probably this girl’s car. I can’t move much. Duct tape binds her hands, feet, and stretches over her mouth. The taillight is kicked out and the flashlight next to her ...
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Tandem Passenger

By submission | August 16, 2014
Author : Peter R Jennings “It’s not going to work, is it”? Gentry gasped out between huge, sucking breaths. He was right next to me so I was getting his panic in stereo through my earphones. The bright, tight lines of lasers and crumping explosions flashed and strobed the night sky ...
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Prime Numbers

By submission | August 15, 2014
Author : Elijah Goering Justin Perdan sat at communication center of mankind's first interstellar spaceship. The Earth Ship Endurance was truly massive, containing within it tens of thousands of people and the systems to keep them alive and comfortable for centuries. It was the first ...
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The Mind's Lie

By submission | August 13, 2014
Author : Amber K Bryant It belongs to me. Naturally, that’s a lie. What right does a D937 Class-C AutomaGirl have to be in possession of an AI Generator? They say if you tell yourself a lie often enough, you’ll start to believe it. I found it. It belongs to me—I’ve said this ...
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The Last Witness of Memories

By submission | August 12, 2014
Author : Elisa Nuckle The star in the sky doesn’t move anymore. It blocks out all other light. Something new has come. She looks up through her mask and sees the colors of space, not so empty after all. Blues and yellows and browns and reds and whites. The particles that built their ...
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Hate the Player

By Julian Miles | August 11, 2014
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The conspiracy nuts must have wet themselves when the Barraz arrived. In a global broadcast, they announced that they were making a pre-emptive move to protect their main weapons supplier. That was us. Or the chunk of us that worked within the ...
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The Code

By submission | August 10, 2014
Author : Ryan Somma A software bug killed 64 people this month before it was discovered. The administrators have brought the system down and a patch is working its way through the emergency release process. It will cost the ministry $400 million in downtime after you add up all the ...
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The Argument

By submission | August 9, 2014
Author : Suzanne Borchers I polish the sterling silver door handle for the 103rd time this morning. I have been a master’s valet for more years than that. My duties have been reduced but my importance to him has never waned. His father’s father said to me, “Alfred, you are my most ...
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180 Accident-Free Days

By submission | August 8, 2014
Author : Gray Blix The sign on the wall read, "180 ACCIDENT-FREE DAYS." For the umpteenth time since the accident, UR4-51 climbed into an electronic parts recycling bin and positioned itself chest down on the surface of the detritus, its four motive appendages extended out for ...
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Moon Rocks

By submission | August 7, 2014
Author : Gray Blix Addressing a darkened convocation of world leaders, with images projected behind him, Dr. Spitz began, "To summarize events over the last seven months, a meteor-like object exploded about 6 kilometers above China's Wenchang Launch Center, flattening it and leaving a ...
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Pompeii

By submission | August 6, 2014
Author : Anthony Merklinger I sat across from it, and it sat across from me. There was nothing really aesthetic about it—exceptional, remarkable really, but nothing aesthetic. “Hello,” I said. It had arms and legs like I did, a neck as well, and a head, a spine, and entrails too if ...
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A Game Of Inches

By Clint Wilson | August 5, 2014
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer We had barely a minute. The ship was breaking apart. The floor dropped from beneath my feet and then crashed back into me, buckling my legs and smashing me up into the bulkhead. The captain screamed into my earpiece. “Run Ensign, run! It’s our only ...
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Every Angle

By Julian Miles | August 4, 2014
Author : Julian Miles I’m sitting on a rock on Hezbolla XIV. It’s a damn comfortable rock, overlooking an expanse of tundra without salient feature between me and the horizon in all directions. This is why I chose it. After four months of headlong flight, I can stop and have a cup of ...
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Suburban Singularity

By submission | August 3, 2014
Author : TJMoore At 4:53 EST Ben Freen flicked the switch. An instant later the little sphere of quantum foam, gallium oxide and carbon began to get hot. It started to glow red and then white. It was power! Unending, unwavering, ever-increasing power! He had created a source of power ...
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Dissidence

By submission | August 2, 2014
Author : Robert King My grandfather warned me. I never listened. I always thought he was stuck in the past. A remnant of the McCarthy era -- illegal FBI surveillance and all that. I'd say to him, "I don't really care if they listen in. I'm not doing anything wrong." He'd give me that ...
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The Beginning is Impossible and the End is Impassable

By submission | August 1, 2014
Author : Nathan Witkin “So, pushing this button will cause the entire universe to collapse?” the politician asks, still struggling with the situation. With a benevolent smile, the scientist nods. Wiping sweat from his brow, despite the growing chill of entropy, the politician ...
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Wind Chimes

By submission | July 31, 2014
Author : Sara Norja Where there is no air, there can be no wind. I miss a lot of things about Earth. Fresh bread baked by Mona's strong hands. The smell of the sea, salt-tanged like longing. But what I think of most here in this foresaken escape pod is wind. You can't feel solar ...
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Con

By submission | July 30, 2014
Author : S. P. Mahoney There is an utterly absurd amount of mineral wealth sitting in Sol’s asteroid belt. Was. Whatever. A nickel-iron asteroid of middling size contains enough mineral wealth to choke a multinational, if you were to bring it back to Earth. Not to mention so expensive ...
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