A Difficult Time

Author: Colin Jeffrey "Your order will be ready eleven months ago next Tuesday," the drive-in automat informed me. "And your bill will be minus eighty-four dollars, less tax." I put the car in reverse, drove home backwards. When I got there, I put the newspaper back into ...

Life’s a Parade

Author: Colin Jeffrey As the steam-powered Queen Victoria chugged its way across the palace forecourt, the sound of a volley of cannon shots rang out through a public address system. A troop of mechanical horses paraded noisily in front of the queen, boilers whistling, ...

Lots of Corpses

Author: Majoki Carpenter counted out loud while trying to carefully step over the swollen bodies. In the clunky hazmat suit his boot came down on the neck of a child. Swynton jerked away from the sight, but there was really nowhere to turn from the reality of hundreds of ...

Here be Showers

Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer Water drums upon my helmet, makes a low hissing as it streams over the audio pickups, and fills the air with splashing sounds as it cascades from my armour to fall inside and outside my impromptu shelter. There’s a rhythm to this. It’s ...

Soft Landing

Author: Bronte Lemaire “Oxygen level is at 1%. Please follow the emergency protocol.” Sarah sighed and let her head fall against the window. The stars flowed gently over her cheeks and created extra pinpricks of light between her freckles. She felt me staring and I ...

Below the forms

Author: Colin Jeffrey "The total value of your haul," said Twopenny Armchair, eyeing the console, "is twelve point five dweebles." Kentish Town sighed. It wasn’t enough. It never was. But there was no haggling with Armchair - Town had two fewer fingers on his left hand ...

What a Piece of Work of Man!

Author: David C. Nutt “What I can’t stand about humans, being human when I’m on vacation, is how cold- (is that the right word?) No. Isolated? Isolating? How isolating it is. I mean, here you all are, in some cases millimeters apart from each other and sometimes inside each ...

Blissful Ignorance

Author: Daniela Tabrea I loved my husband. I really did. I would’ve followed him into the desert, gone blind, sold my soul for him. But when I got home earlier than usual that day, something in the mechanics of my love for him broke. You see, up to that point, I had no ...

Change the Root Permissions

Author: Eva C. Stein Weeks passed before they met again, at what they still called a café: legacy infrastructure, where some devices failed to detect low-spoken words. Vines snaked through fractured steel. Light filtered through old purification nets. Mae’s fingers ...

Diagnostics

Author: Majoki A wicked wind rattled the gravel and it pinged against the rims of the truck parked on the sloping shoulder. The strikes were constant enough to keep Malloy from dozing peacefully. He was dead tired. He’d been three weeks in the unforgiving Badlands. ...

Greater Force

Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer “They’re fighting again.” Bryr-na-ne rouses from her nap and looks up at Bael-la-le. “What’s new?” “Nuclear warheads.” She launches herself off the recliner. “How long?” “Their spears launched as I came to tell you it looked bad. I’d ...

You Can’t Save Everyone

Author: David Bors There is a break in the fighting. Zaira surveys the battlefield. The horrors have retreated for now. An Aegiswalker limps over to her and tells her that one of them is badly injured. Zaira rushes to the injured Aegiswalker, barely breathing. She kneels ...

Perfect Copy

Author: David C. Nutt I remember the day as if it were only yesterday. I walked into the room. Adrian was adjusting a painting- Starry Night by Van Gough. It was breath taking! “Is it the original?” It wasn’t a stupid question. That’s how powerful Adrian was. I also noticed ...

Spadehammer

Author: R. J. Erbacher “I… am… the summoner… of Spadehammer!” The herd of oafs began ‘hoolering.’ They could not clap and a ‘hool’ was their equivalent of a cheer. The inhabitants of this planet were basically bipedal, semi-intelligent cattle with thick arms that had curled appendages ...

That Old Black Magic

Author: Neil Weiner By the time you read this, I’m no longer what I was. My space pod is being dragged—no, devoured—by a black hole’s event horizon. The engines scream. Alarms flash in panicked red. But I feel nothing. Just the tug of acceleration pulling at my bones. Did ...

Exit Ticket

Author: Brian Genua When the mirror-toxin was injected in the base of my skull, it rendered me paralyzed from my eyelids down. What happens when big-tech, big-pharma, and the NLP community come together to solve the national education crisis? The hybrid protocol known as ...

2-4-6-8 Who Do We Appreciate?

Author: Hillary Lyon “And we’re back,” Rob, the chiseled sports announcer chirped. He nodded over to his cohort, Ike, an elderly sports commentator of great reputation. “Thanks to all our viewers for joining us for the 130th annual Collegiate Cheerleading Competition. Next ...

The Wishing Well

Author: Ashwini Shenoy The first time, I think it’s a dream. You and I are holding hands. The night-blooming jasmine spreads its fragrance, sweet and soothing. The fruit trees sway in the twilight. The birds chirp and butterflies swirl. Our garden, our labor of love, built ...
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