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Time Cop

By submission | December 22, 2012
Author : Bob Newbell It seems like it was only yesterday when Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. From my perspective, of course, it literally was yesterday. July 20, 1969. But it shouldn't have happened then. It was April 18, 1966 when Alan Shepard, not Neil Armstrong, ...
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It's Rude to Talk About Religion

By submission | December 21, 2012
Author : Kevin Crisp The segutar’s primary “facial” orifice oozed with puss and gurgled as it laboriously produced sounds that be interpreted by the translator unit. “We have some additional questions for you, Mr. Anderson. Many of your earthly artifacts and customs seem ...
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Up In Arms

By featured writer | December 20, 2012
Author : Desmond Hussey, featured writer “Not a single shot was fired during the Centauri Conquest.” General Kark says, stirring his cold narth-noodle soup. “Little known fact. They just rolled over as soon as our battle cruisers broke atmosphere. Signed the treaty before ...
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Damn Kids

By Roi R. Czechvala | December 19, 2012
Author : Roi R. Cechvala, Alumnus Graham Banyon was enjoying a television retrospective, "2012: The Mayans Were Right and Other Crackpot Beliefs", when a tremendous explosion rocked the house. "Damn kids," he muttered. With a weary sigh he rose from his chair and walked to ...
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Tariff

By Julian Miles | December 18, 2012
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The Neosatian hits me at the base of my spine so hard that I flip over backwards and land heavily, knocking the wind from me. By the time I get my breath, I cannot breathe properly because it’s sitting on me, front paws on my shoulders. I ...
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Grampa's Stories

By featured writer | December 17, 2012
Author : Desmond Hussey, featured writer The red ball ricochets down the corridor before careening off a table leg into the kitchen. A trio of giggling children is in hot pursuit, but when the ball rolls silently across the kitchen floor and slips through the slim gap of an open ...
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Seven Days

By submission | December 16, 2012
Author : T. Gene Davis "Next up: the calendar," droned the chairman over every speaker surface in the colonial ship. Sam yawned. "Excuse me," she said though a second yawn that pushed its way past the first unfinished yawn. "Doesn't get more exciting than this," Rod ...
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Nano Chevall

By submission | December 15, 2012
Author : Morrow Brady Like unfolding origami, my plan emerged making me swiftly forget what disappointed me in the first place. Then it came back. The glowing gold logo of my local planning department told me this email was pre-approved permission for my neighbour to ...
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The Game of Life

By featured writer | December 14, 2012
Author : Desmond Hussey, featured writer The cavernous chamber of the Galaxy Arcade is filled with phantasmagorical colors, super-nova bright and a deafening riot of beeps, blips and core shuddering rumbles. Most of the games – “6th Dimension”, “Quantum Exchange”, “The Abyss” ...
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Bath

By Duncan Shields | December 13, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer There was one thing I missed more than anything else when I was planetside. A zero-g bath. I’d think back. I’d remember turning the taps on and seeing the water spill out in braids of steaming hot water, glittering in the light. Seeing ...
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Lonely Planet

By Clint Wilson | December 12, 2012
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer I wander the jungle alone as always. Ducking beneath thick vines and scrambling over massive fallen logs, some stories high. I do as always. I explore and I record. Earlier today a beast of which I have no file approached me. It was ...
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Caveat Ereptor

By Patricia Stewart | December 11, 2012
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer As far as pirates went, Jack Hoorn was not the brightest star in the constellation. To be sure, what he lacked in reason and forethought, he made up for with guile and spontaneity. Even as he presented his stolen security clearance to ...
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Wake-up Call

By featured writer | December 10, 2012
Author : Desmond Hussey, featured writer I hate psychologists with a passion, but when I saw the ad requesting lucid dreamers for research into the origin of dreams, I couldn’t resist. Besides, they’re offering stipends and I need the cash. I stub out my cigarette and suck ...
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Adaptation

By submission | December 9, 2012
Author : Bob Newbell "This time we're done for. This is finally the end, I think," said Triana. Of course, she didn't really "say" anything. She communicated her thoughts to her husband, Loret, by modulating the zero-point energy that comprised her being. "You say that every ...
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The Things We Do for Love

By submission | December 8, 2012
Author : Ian Florida Jack was grateful he had never been human. He was thankful that he’d skipped out on that entire sliver of Earth’s history. He knew humans: pink bundles of flesh with more emotional baggage then a type IV psychic could ever hope to unravel. That he didn’t ...
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Cerebral Mechanics

By featured writer | December 7, 2012
Author : Desmond Hussey, Featured Writer “Good evening honored representatives of the World Coalition,” Dr. Dretch drones standing near an unconscious patient strapped to an inclined table. The top of the patient’s skull has been removed, revealing grey brain matter. A neural ...
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Indestructabuddies

By Clint Wilson | December 6, 2012
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer “Indestructabuddies! They’re completely indestructible! Drop them from skyscrapers, throw them into traffic! Freeze them, burn them, blow them up reeeal good! Indestructabuddies, your new best friend who will last you forever and ever and ...
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Fliers

By Duncan Shields | December 5, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer My mount is about an acre across from wingtip to wingtip. I’m sitting between her eyes, up near the front. I have a windshield set up, sheltering my sleeping quarters, replicator, garden, fridge, toilet bag and pilot’s chair. She’s the ...
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