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Scapegoat

By submission | August 12, 2013
Author : Ian Hill At first I thought we were just going on a trip to see the holy city. We, my father and I, boarded an opulent train replete with red carpet and finely crafted oak furniture. The immaculate standard of the church lined the sides of the train, and it charged through the ...
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Storm Clouds

By submission | August 11, 2013
Author : Harshavardhan Rangan It was the day the clouds came alive. We've always thought of them as gentle puffs of water vapor. We were wrong. They weren't gentle, and they'd had enough of us. Our understanding of the water cycle had one small, fatal flaw. We assumed the clouds had ...
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Boundary’s Edge

By submission | August 10, 2013
Author : TPKeating It took me just a few minutes to unpack and activate the robot. “How can I assist you, friend?” she asked, softly. Friend? I could leave her on for a year, for five years, ten, learning and developing and simply being, and then simply shut her down on a ...
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Siren Song

By Duncan Shields | August 9, 2013
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer My name is Clancy. I am a semi-autonomous security program. I guard a warehouse. I am the guns, the cameras, the traps, and the locks. I am the lines in and out. For me and my kind, boredom leads to emotion. This is a weakness. It makes us ...
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Life in the Wild

By submission | August 8, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell The pup frolicked along with his two bigger brothers in the synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula. As they played, their bodies soaked up ...
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No Portraits

By Clint Wilson | August 7, 2013
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer The normally white bulbous head of the spacer became yellow as he indulged in triple Rotten Roxathdons on the rocks over ...
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Djedi's Device

By Julian Miles | August 6, 2013
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The sun clears the mountains and shines across the sylvan landscape, it’s rays sparkling from the dew on the grasses, bringing ...
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An Important Message

By submission | August 4, 2013
Author : Alex Sivier The large door at the bottom of the chrome craft opened with a faint hiss and white clouds billowed out into the cool Swiss air. A ...
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Eve

By submission | August 3, 2013
Author : Sean A Murphy Waking up in the dust. System check, full functionality. Scanning environment. Laboratory, minor damage. Functional assemblers and VI ...
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The Switch

By submission | August 1, 2013
Author : Vince H. “Come with me.” “We’ve already talked about this. I would never do that to myself.” “Honey, we can live forever. Together.” “Live? Is that what you call it?” “Of course. Your brain remains completely intact, and you keep all of your memories… your entire ...
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Thirteen Cities

By submission | July 30, 2013
Author : George R. Shirer The cities float, a mile above earth and water, drifting across the surface of the world. Their positions remain constant to each other ...
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Pulped

By submission | July 29, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell Captain "Jet" Connors of the Planetary Alliance and his sidekick, Cadet Lackey, burst into the secret base of operations of their archenemy, Dr. Sinistral. ...
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The View from the Base

By submission | July 28, 2013
Author : Jim O'Loughlin It’s like flying a kite, Sheila thought. In a way she was right. Just a thin strand of carbon nanotube stretched out of the launch ...
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A License to Kill

By submission | July 26, 2013
Author : C.T. Jackman The late-evening wind wasn’t the only thing that threatened to pull Derek from the building’s roof. A car screamed through the air in front of him, forcing the bounty hunter to stagger his stance for balance and spin his arms, even almost dropping his sub-machine ...
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