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What I Wasn't

By submission | April 18, 2014
Author : Tony Bertauski It started with a flash. Like the Big Bang, an explosion that swallowed everything. The pain sunk deep into my head, and then was replaced with blurry colors. There were no edges to the blobs floating before a background of gray. The pinks and the browns and ...
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Man vs Nature

By Desmond Hussey | April 17, 2014
Author : Desmond Hussey, Staff Writer I call it World War Bee. Perhaps not an apt label for what’s really going on, but it gets the buzz out. Sorry, bad joke. Levity is the only thing keeping me sane these days. In all fairness, the war wasn’t the bee’s fault, but it did start with ...
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The Missing Element

By submission | April 16, 2014
Author : C.T. Jackman There was no flash of light. There was no puff of smoke. Such a waste of energy would have been unacceptable during the teleportation, and so Dr. Mueller was very happy to have missed the flower and its pot disappear when he blinked. His colleagues on the other ...
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Who Wants to Live Forever?

By submission | April 15, 2014
Author : John Raymond Wilson My mother was hesitant because of the burden it would put on my wife and I. She didn’t want to be a bother. But she also didn’t want to die, so when she relented and asked us if we would take care of her while she was an infant, we were prepared. We knew ...
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Infantem Gradus

By submission | April 14, 2014
Author : J.P. Flarity We were too busy planting flags and making speeches those first times our planet's inhabitants touched the moon. But eventually, hidden in the crevasses on Luna's dark side, we found it. The first Tablet. Made from a tungsten superalloy of impossible purity, it ...
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Prometheus…?

By submission | April 13, 2014
Author : Mark Jacobsen In the middle of a dark, lightly wooded area, three figures can be seen moving against the black background of night. An older man is talking with a younger man. The older man is trying to start a fire by friction. There is a third man there, who remains ...
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Rachel's Treasure

By submission | April 12, 2014
Author : Suzanne Borchers Rachel closed her eyes to the grayness surrounding her. She shut out gray clouds overhanging the gray sky and gray broken concrete and the metallic landscape. Heavy eyelids shielded her green eyes from the present gray existence of hopeless humanity. Her ...
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The Zoo

By Desmond Hussey | April 11, 2014
Author : Desmond Hussey, Staff Writer “The Vulturi Zoological reserve is home to the most dangerous collection of species within the galaxy...” The dull-as-Arcosian-Slug-Art tour-guide is a spastic, Mark-VII resembling a stick-figure assembled from recycled gas cylinders, ...
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Runaway Groom

By Julian Miles | April 10, 2014
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer “Where are you?” “Same continent.” “That’s a relief. I was so worried when the news said you’d been cornered in Rio.” So was I. It was only after fleeing I found it had only been media hype, not a snatch team. “Doctor Flowers says we ...
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Continue

By Clint Wilson | April 9, 2014
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer All six of my previous brothers had gotten past this point with little difficulty. The smoldering remains of my crashed lander blended in nicely with the gray hillside behind me. My atmospheric and biofunction readings continued to flash in my view ...
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Routine

By submission | April 8, 2014
Author : Morrow Brady I scared myself again. But only briefly. Bored with routine, my mind zoned out. Wandering like a hungry dog. Dragging extraordinary notions to hell and back with me at the centre of it all. The snap-to was always a break in that routine and this morning it was ...
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Raised by Wulvs

By Desmond Hussey | April 7, 2014
Author : Desmond Hussey, Staff Writer The air is rent with screams, alien klaxons and a violent thundering that threatens to crush Kaam with raw acoustic power. All is dizzying confusion, a chaotic kaleidoscope of hauntingly familiar images, intertwined with deep inscrutable wells of ...
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Of Fields, Half-Sown

By submission | April 6, 2014
Author : Kurt Hunt "Failed," said the ship. Its transmission burst into jagged waves, a white noise elegy. But the station didn't understand. "Greetings, Generation-32! Welcome to Centauri Colony!" It beamed yottabytes of data, everything from advertisements to ...
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Revelation

By submission | April 5, 2014
Author : Bob Newbell The Agent established contact with the High Command and prepared to deliver his latest report. Nothing about his outward appearance betrayed what he was doing. The entire procedure was telepathic. There were hidden machines in the vicinity that were able to ...
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Barroom Theories

By submission | April 4, 2014
Author : Jay Haytch “So I walk into the warehouse, right? Was just looking for a quiet place to have a smoke – and it's full of the damned things!” “Wait, full of what things?” “Of them. Of... robots. Must've been thirty-five or forty of 'em in there. Dead quiet, just ...
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The Angler Fish

By submission | April 3, 2014
Author : Eric Spery Teena Tolstarre's Interplanetary Cultural Archeological Team (ICAT) had been onsite on Gliese 163c for over a year. A warm super-terran mesoplanet, Gliese 163c had evidence of at least one extinct sentient culture. So far, the team had discovered camps, ...
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Reintroduction

By Julian Miles | April 2, 2014
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The bridge is quiet. Non-essential systems are shut down as avoiding detection by this world’s dominant species is essential. Two figures stand by a darkened control panel that has a single node illuminated; the white glow of the ring about the ...
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Sunset

By submission | April 1, 2014
Author : George R. Shirer They sat on the porch of the retirement home, in matching wooden rocking chairs. The late afternoon sun beat down on their aged, seamed faces. In the distance, they could hear the soft hum of traffic from the freeway. Closer, a bird warbled to its mate ...
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