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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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I, Rifle

By Julian Miles | December 4, 2012
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer I am a rifle. There are few like me, but I am unique. I will fire true. I will fire straighter than any other. I know that only hitting the target counts. I will maintain myself clean and ready. I will defend my country. I will master the ...
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Hard Currency

By featured writer | December 3, 2012
Author : Desmond Hussey, Featured Writer “That’ll be two-thousand kilowatts,” the droopy eyed clerk said when he finished scanning Sarah’s purchase. She held out her debit battery, which was running depressingly low; prayed she had enough. The clerk barely looked at her as he ...
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Two's a Crowd

By submission | December 2, 2012
Author : Tom Coupland Rob grinds his cigarette on the outside of the window, letting it drop down to the pavement. He knew it’d annoy Dave, but recently he was beginning to care less and less about what Dave thought anyway. Closing the curtains against the sun’s light and ...
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Android CG

By submission | December 1, 2012
Author : Alice Brook I want to say I am alive but logic forbids me. I am metal, silicone and electronics. I have etiquette chips, politeness programs, e-circuits and I am my creator's pride and joy. I was constructed exactly five months ago and have been the center of forty two ...
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The Beautiful Moon

By submission | November 30, 2012
Author : David Stevenson I had never seen the moon so bright and clear. I had brooded all evening until, shortly before midnight, I went outside and looked at the sky. All evening I had heard the sounds of panic and rioting outside in the street, but now, as I looked up into ...
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