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Life Itself

By submission | November 2, 2013
Author : Richard Halcomb Life Itself… The electrostatic bubble crackled to life around the travellers; two scientists, a politician and a pair of media photographers. Dr. Tim Bilcks, Team Leader of Project Tempus, held the controls of the Temporal Transport Platform, as the sphere of ...
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The Master's Truth

By Desmond Hussey | November 1, 2013
Author : Desmond Hussey, Staff Writer He was sitting in his chair exactly where I’d left him six hours ago, looking out the window of the impeccably reconstructed early 16th Century workshop. His plate of fruit, bread and cheese remained untouched. I glanced at the blank canvas ...
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Weapons of Mass Destruction

By submission | October 31, 2013
Author : Glen Luke Flanagan Scarlet wings aflutter, painted faces twisted into masks of hate, the pixies descend. Their prey writhes on the ground, eyes bulging in terror as the tiny carnivores begin their feast. Fluorescent light filters through golden pixie dust, casting an eerie ...
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Feature Presentation

By submission | October 30, 2013
Author : David Kavanaugh The projectionist’s nimble hands slid the reel into the side of the old machine. The switch was flipped and a cone of illuminated dust particles appeared in the theater outside the tiny window. In the seats below, the scattered audience members settled back, ...
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Free to a Good Home

By Duncan Shields | October 29, 2013
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer YOUNG DOMESTICATED HAND-RAISED HUMAN BEINGS FREE TO A GOOD HOME I have 5 young (13 Earth Years) DOMESTICATED pet humans that are looking for loving nest hives. These humans have been handled since birth, have no problem with tentacles, and love ...
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Gather Unto Me

By Julian Miles | October 28, 2013
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The sea of faces looks like a spattering of pale raindrops against the dark pastiche of their clothing. This demonstration promised to be ‘a spectacular denial of President Lacorn’s policies’ and it is. The estimates place the heaving crowd at over ...
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Yearning for Humanity

By submission | October 27, 2013
Author : James McGrath He would arrive soon. My partner, DA09-V65, was sure of that. "The programming of your 'emotion' is conflicting with your logic," he replied when I questioned his certainty, "With the information we have that is easy to deduce." I sighed, "Ok Dave, no need to ...
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For Everything Else

By submission | October 26, 2013
Author : Phillip Riviezzo -Raw materials for construction of labor habitat modules: Sixty million stellar credits. -Neutronium fuel for supply ship transit: Eighty-five million stellar credits. -Third-generation hostile environment mining equipment: Five hundred million stellar ...
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The Swamp Moon King

By Duncan Shields | October 25, 2013
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer A gas giant named Zeus in the Organa cluster is so big that even its moons have moons. These mini-moons are called moonlets. There are 45 moons and over three hundred moonlets. It makes for very complicated diplomacy. Resources were too scarce for ...
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Unplugged

By submission | October 24, 2013
Author : Tony Taylor “What do you mean a technical difficulty?” Catherine spoke down to him, in more ways than one. Her tone was sharp and her stature intimidating. “Well, I d-don’t know exactly.” A hunched over man replied. “I ran some tests but haven’t found anything.” Catherine ...
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All is Fair

By submission | October 23, 2013
Author : Nathan Witkin “I love you.” Electric and electrochemical signals send chills up the trigger fingers of the sentient beings on both sides, as every one of them wait in attack positions across all the light years of the universe containing the miracle of life and watch the ...
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All Your Realities

By Julian Miles | October 22, 2013
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The trees are huge, thickly crowned with leaves that show a myriad of verdant shades in the setting sun’s light. The undergrowth is burgeoning with a diversity of flora and varieties of animal noises. “Man, this place!” “I know! Never ...
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Reconquista

By submission | October 21, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell Pluto went dark first. Just some technical problem, everyone said. And, of course, we all knew it wasn't. Superconductors operate very reliably on a world with a mean surface temperature of -229°C. One moment the data stream from Pluto's metaprocessor was going out ...
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Junkies

By submission | October 20, 2013
Author : Tyler Hawkins Fifty dollars to go, and I can visit the clinic again. Man, do I miss it. I don't know if you've ever tried it, but you definitely should, dude. Tried what? You mean you don't even know what it is? Wow man, you're so behind the times. Diving™ dude! Its out of ...
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6 ABD : The Gift

By submission | October 19, 2013
Author : J. Louis The day Hell broke through the surface of the Earth was etched in his brain. Sirens blared, signaling the air raid had begun. Shadows of zeppelins blotted out the sunlight, their engines roaring through the endless expanse of the sky. He looked at her, the woman he ...
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Storm Rider

By Desmond Hussey | October 18, 2013
Author : Desmond Hussey, Staff Writer “Doppler readings show primary vortex three hundred meters off starboard and closing fast on my position,” I radio to the control hub, half submerged into the desert mesa two miles away. “Wind speed… 400kph and rising. All systems green. ...
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Even a Non Corporeal Can Get Lonely

By submission | October 17, 2013
Author : David K Scholes Deep Space The Far Future The entity slowed down to take in the grandeur of it all. It had seen much of wonder during what it considered its comparatively short existence. Black holes, neutron stars, binary star systems, magnetic pulse stars, wormholes, ...
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Silence

By Duncan Shields | October 16, 2013
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer The worst thing about their weapons was the silence. They flickered like a strobe light but anyone caught in that beam had a layer of meat burned off for every flash. They melted like snowmen in a microwave but snowmen didn’t have bones or ...
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