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Mechanic's Blues

By featured writer | March 18, 2014
Author : Jay Knioum, Featured Writer I'm getting grease on my sandwich when she walks in. The whole hangar pretends to be busy while throwing glances at her. She looks around, finds me, smiles. She's walking my way, but her eyes are all for her baby. I've been pulling extra shifts ...
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Rapunzel

By submission | March 17, 2014
Author : cchatfield The small group marched forward in loose formation, swaggering with the confidence that their training would kick in when needed. The sandy landscape offered no threats, no hiding places, no life. Their destination: a lone tower, hidden in a secluded valley lined ...
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One Exception

By submission | March 16, 2014
Author : Jay Haytch One exception She stood at the threshold and looked out at a burnt world. It wasn't really a proper threshold. There was no welcome mat, for starters. Just a trod-over pile of rubble where one last stray missile had hit the city wall and left a person-sized crack. ...
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Stealth Education

By submission | March 15, 2014
Author : Glenn S. Austin “Well do you think it did any good at all?” The President asked the others sitting around the large oval conference table in the command bunker. The President asked the question to the entire room, but his tired eyes looked directly at his Press ...
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Symptoms and Side Effects

By submission | March 14, 2014
Author : Rachelle Shepherd The streetlamps sputtered on, spilling buttery fluorescence on Broadway Street litter. Sparrow opened the kitchen cabinets where chrome rows of Midnight Oil hissed in the shadow. “Another night, Sparrow?” He didn’t answer. He never talked anymore, only ...
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Lowlander

By Julian Miles | March 13, 2014
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer Have you ever heard bagpipes played properly? No, not some five-dee render job. I mean by half a dozen three-hundred pound ballbreakers wearing armoured skirts and gravtac boots under their blades and slugthrowers. It’s terrifying. Makes your blood ...
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Builders

By submission | March 12, 2014
Author : chesterchatfield I woke up one morning and found a small robot living on my leg. By the time I stumbled up to the bathroom, I could feel the little parasite burrowing, trying to get at my mind. After an hour, I’d become a passenger in my own body, watching this little creep ...
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Bad with Time

By featured writer | March 11, 2014
Author : Jay Knioum, Featured Writer Is this Waterloo? This is Waterloo, isn't it? That was the question that sealed it for me. That bright day in Hyde Park, with the pigeons. It wasn't a great feat to hide the Professor's keys from him after that. The Apparatus, however, was another ...
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Those-Who-Came-Before

By Desmond Hussey | March 10, 2014
Author : Desmond Hussey, Staff Writer It’s oily, amber light which finally penetrates the hazy atmosphere as the first forays of dawn dimly paint the coastal shoreline. Ook-Pak emerges from his dome-like tent and stretches his many limbs, shaking off sleep’s lethargic blanket. ...
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Prototype

By submission | March 9, 2014
Author : Roger Dale Trexler “No, no, no!” he said. It just won’t do.” He looked at the workers and shook his head. “Do you call those hands?” He motioned toward the thing lying on the slab in front of him. “And feet? Those look more like claws!” He shook his head again. “It ...
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Bad Reception

By submission | March 8, 2014
Author : Rocky Hutson “They're incompatible: He has no income and she has no patability.” The middle aged couple entered the reception hall. Invited guests of the groom's family, they were eager to give their condolences to the happy couple, Herkus and Midge, get back to ...
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Running Late

By submission | March 7, 2014
Author : S. L. Gilbow Nancy is running late again. Not surprising. She’s the type who shows up after you’ve already decided the movie you wanted to see isn’t really worth seeing or after you’ve figured out that the dinner reservation you’ve had for a week was a mistake in the first ...
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The Breeze From Beyond

By Julian Miles | March 6, 2014
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer They put me in a mansuit again. I objected until the Hnth decreed and I had to comply. Then to my surprise, they acted upon the other half of my request. The Krntch dropped me on a beach. I stood there, watching men of both genders flee in terror, ...
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Love Beatrice

By Clint Wilson | March 5, 2014
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer Time travel has always been possible. We’ve been doing it for centuries. Even the most archaic craft in our earliest space faring ventures used to bring back brave voyagers aged a fraction of a second younger than they would have been had they never ...
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Lost and Found

By featured writer | March 4, 2014
Author : Jay Knioum, Featured Writer He thought he heard crows. When he found the noise, it was just a loose telephone cable blowing against the remains of a wire fence. Crows wouldn't have survived. Crows built nests, not bomb shelters. "Ramon? Hey Ray!" "Yeah. You find anything, ...
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Conflicted

By Desmond Hussey | March 3, 2014
Author : Desmond Hussey, Staff Writer “Who am I?” Karen asked the reflection in her bathroom mirror. For years now she couldn’t shake the feeling that the face looking back at her was somehow alien, not really a part of her. As usual, the unspoken response was instantaneous, ...
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Birth

By submission | March 2, 2014
Author : Matthew Allen A mechanical appendage lifts away from her, its claws curling back as it settles next to the table she is lying on. "And breathe." Her diaphragm tightens and the pressure in her lungs drops, dragging warm air in from outside. It feels ...
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Genesis

By submission | March 1, 2014
Author : Robert Spencer When Dr. Fassenbiender both stepped out of the capsules, it took them half a second to realise who was Dr. Fassenbiender and who was not. And so, in a small laboratory at the back of the Centre for Untested Technologies (or the "Creators of Unspeakable Terrors" ...
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