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Two Graves

By Julian Miles | August 19, 2013
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer They say that a man who seeks revenge should dig two graves, one for his target and one for himself. I dug two hundred and seventy-nine. Into two hundred and thirty-seven of them I put all that remained of the inhabitants of my home town, Padgest. I ...
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Three Blind Mice

By submission | August 18, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell The crew of the starship looked at the strange yellow star on the viewscreen. The interstellar vessel's enormous magsail was slowly decelerating the vehicle against the star's solar wind. Soon there would be a series of aerobraking maneuvers carried out ...
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Of Quints and Quads

By submission | August 17, 2013
Author : Joshua Ginsberg Jeff sat at a circular table in the cafeteria, going through some of his data captures and interviews. It was an annual assignment – covering the oldest high school tactical combat drone rivalry in the country. Both schools had fallen to a Tier II ranking over ...
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Dreams

By Duncan Shields | August 16, 2013
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer Images of lost socks at the bottom of wells. Trees of math and flesh jealousy cascading through a brain that had no awareness of what a human body felt like. Jeremy Carson was one of the smartest scientists on Earth and the corporation he ...
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Cops

By submission | August 15, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell Officers Castillo and Thrin'Lar heard the terrorist screaming epithets at them both as he was escorted out of the courtroom. With court adjourned, the two LAPD officers who had testified against the man who was accused of bombing four different buildings ...
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Never Going Home

By Julian Miles | August 14, 2013
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer “Tell the Charmian that we can see her.” “She refuses to believe us.” “Oh, for the love of Turing, she got out before sensor tutoring?” “Seems to be the case, sir.” The half-kilometre diameter of the moon Abaddon hangs in near space on ...
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Art of War

By Desmond Hussey | August 13, 2013
Author : Desmond Hussey, Staff Writer I drop from warp-space long before entering the Veretti system - a safety precaution that has become standard protocol on my salvage missions since my near-fatal incident in the Hox system. The extra flight time adds up, but it’s better than ...
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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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