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Emily Goes To Mars

By submission | January 27, 2014
Author : Liz Shannon Miller When she opens her eyes, she expects... Well. She doesn't expect to be in space. At first she's floating, adrift, the starlight from far away galaxies flickering into her view as she waves her fingers across the void. She fell asleep so normally. Well, ...
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Like Two Ships

By submission | January 26, 2014
Author : Eric Spery The starship's Captain stood in the causeway between the dining module and the guest berths. As he stared at the observation port, one of the guests came through from the berths. The captain knew every passenger he carried on the two month run between Sol ...
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Apocalypse On Time

By submission | January 25, 2014
Author : Jedd Cole The hours have become mere tick tocks of clock hands since Lonny flipped ahead on his desk calendar this morning, noting with some surprise that the pages stop tomorrow with the End of the World. He eats his bowl of wheat puffs contemplatively. On his commute ...
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When the War is Over

By Julian Miles | January 24, 2014
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer I can hear them inside, their voices loud and fast with teenage enthusiasm. This was a bad idea; I should never have taken the assignment. “Look at that! Hyper-alloy combat chassis, full-spectrum vision, cross-frequency hearing, graphene ...
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Heaven In Their Own Minds

By Clint Wilson | January 23, 2014
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer After my initial arrival I concentrated mainly on research. This is what I found out in those first couple of minutes. They had all been once trapped inside cumbersome organic bodies like I was used to. Some dozens of centuries ago though the final ...
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Copyrights

By Desmond Hussey | January 22, 2014
Author : Desmond Hussey, Staff Writer Detective Wu found Hitari in an executive hotel on Luna reveling in bohemian delights involving a low-G hot tube, two kilos of Moon Dust and four, identical, hermaphrodite pleasure clones engaged in activities both indescribable and illegal on most ...
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Speech Crime

By submission | January 21, 2014
Author : Haydn Kane The Sergeant sat down across the table from me. “Commencing interview with Daniel Ambrose,” he said to the room in general and then to me, “you are a resident of Mars?” “Yes, Olympus City.” “Ah yes, capital of the North, North Eastern Accord” he said, ...
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Sadness

By submission | January 20, 2014
Author : J.D. Rice “What’s wrong?” she asks, dialing her emotion control implant down to ‘concern.’ I watch as her brow furrows and her mouth turns from a smile to a frown. The shift is gradual, like a water droplet running down a window. “The damn thing’s broken,” the words sound ...
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Digital Footprint

By submission | January 19, 2014
Author : Sean P Chatterton ‘How long has she been dead?’ ‘We don’t know.’ ‘How come?’ ‘Katherine Danderfield was a plugged in person. She had autresponders for her email, bots to update her social network status and MyFace Blog. Her web presence had auto updates scheduled. No one ...
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The Ascent of Man

By submission | January 18, 2014
Author : Bob Newbell The Landreb fleet didn't travel across space. It simply appeared suddenly and without warning in low Earth orbit. One of the fifty starships fired an energy beam that obliterated an uninhabited islet in the Dodecanese Island chain mere moments after the vessels ...
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Just Desserts

By Duncan Shields | January 17, 2014
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer Their blood was like a cross between egg nog and hollandaise sauce. Their skin was like bacon jerky. Their internal organs tasted like pecan pie filling with veins of peppermint running through them. Their muscles tasted of tarragon and ...
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Into the Void

By submission | January 16, 2014
Author : Ian Hill “Please, I don’t want to be here. Just- just help.” The voice was distorted and compressed, only decipherable after being ran through an extensive quality recover system. “I need- I need to leave. I don’t want this.” The message went on for about a minute, a minute ...
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Convoy

By Clint Wilson | January 15, 2014
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer None of us would have signed up for this had we known of course. There were now sixteen ships left in the convoy. Sixteen left from the original forty that had set out from Earth all those years ago. I had been a much younger man then. This was ...
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Remember Then

By Julian Miles | January 14, 2014
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer It’s not like I meant to end the world. I was just scared. “Mike! Another side of fries for table fifteen!” He should be shouting for bread and cheese. It’s my fault that he isn’t an innkeeper. I found it lying in a clearing, limbs turning from ...
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Heaven's Gate

By Desmond Hussey | January 13, 2014
Author : Desmond Hussey, Staff Writer “I assure you, Mr. and Mrs. White, the procedure is quiet painless.” I steeple my fingers together and settle deeper into my chair, smiling with cunning charm at the elderly couple sitting across from me, their doubt and fear clearly at odds ...
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They

By submission | January 11, 2014
Author : Roger Dale Trexler They knew that it was the end. They saw the mushroom cloud grow out of the ground, a bright, blinding light providing the seed. They knew about seeds; they were farmers who grew corn and soybeans and milo. They were simple people who did not understand the ...
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Getaway Gear

By Julian Miles | January 10, 2014
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer “We are in so much drek.” “Did I not say that you were to be nice to him?” “Nice? Emmett, he had his cyberpaw so far up my skirt I thought he was a gynaecologist!” “Easy, Celene. Watch the tollway.” “We’re only doing two hundred. I can ...
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Daily Dose

By submission | January 8, 2014
Author : David Kavanaugh “But I don’t want to!” she whined in her little voice. “Why do I have to? It’s. So. Boring! I hate it there.” “I know, baby, I know,” said her mother. “But it’s good for you. Just for a few minutes. Understand? Then you can come back in.” “Humph!” If only ...
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