U

Strange Encounters

By submission | October 29, 2012
Author : Desmond Hussey Sodium lamps paint the night phlorescent orange, reflecting off the oily, wet pavement. Vermin, human and rodent, litter the streets. I took a wrong turn somewhere and find myself navigating the wretched slums of humanity’s cast offs looking for ...
Read More

Warriors for the Working Day

By submission | October 28, 2012
Author : Jake Trommer When the Terran Hegemony declared war on Nouveau Katanga, they weren’t lacking for cockyness. General Janssens boasted about how his intrepid soldiers would march over N.K.’s “rabble in arms” within the week. As the rabble in question, my colleagues and ...
Read More

Freedom

By submission | October 27, 2012
Author : Bob Newbell Two minutes to go. Two minutes from now I and my fellow soldiers will come out of hiding and overrun the enemy base. Or try to, at least. And the same thing will be happening all over the world. The United States, China, Russia, India, Brazil, dozens of ...
Read More

Fallen

By Stephen R. Smith | October 26, 2012
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Gabriel pushed open the cockpit canopy of his shattered craft and watched as it broke free, tearing away at the hinge to fall to the earth below. He wept. Ahead of him, a tree many times as tall as his craft was long lay broken, it's roots ...
Read More

Old Cars Never Die

By Clint Wilson | October 25, 2012
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer Flat and wide like an evil grinning manta ray; the 1966 Pontiac Parisienne two-door hardtop is, in my opinion, the sexiest automobile design to ever grace the streets of our planet. That was my first car way back when, a present from my ...
Read More

The Thinking Cap

By Patricia Stewart | October 24, 2012
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer “Status, Mr. Ortega?” was Captain Edgington’s terse request to his first officer. “Not good, sir,” replied Commander Ortega. “It appears that Chief Engineer Koshiba had ordered all of his senior engineers into the engine room in his ...
Read More

Food Chain

By Julian Miles | October 23, 2012
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer Imagine a blue spider. One of the big hairy ones that move really fast. Make it the size of a tomcat. Replace the back pair of legs with bat wings. Add venomous spurs to those wings. That’s what is watching me as I sway head-down in the ...
Read More

Surprise Party

By Duncan Shields | October 22, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer “Okay, they’re coming! They’re coming! Quick hide! Oh man this is going to be great!” All the people scattered snickering behind bushes, trees and rocks all around the clearing as the cryopositor's trunk arm extended down from the ...
Read More

Thought Supplier

By submission | October 21, 2012
Author : R. Michael Cook Knuckles knocked against the truck window. Mary leaned over and cranked the window down. Rain and the diesel engine nearly drowned out her voice. "Phil, buddy?" "Yeah," said Phil, leaning down to the window. His breath fogged up the glass as Mary ...
Read More

The Uprising

By submission | October 20, 2012
Author : Bruce Meyer It could have been the simplest of conquests. One properly-placed shot and the rebel city would be nothing but ocean. “I’ll sink ‘em all,” Lam said, his red face was projected as an image ahead of Enoch’s cockpit window. “I’ll blast the monsters to the ...
Read More

Mining

By submission | October 19, 2012
Author : Nathan Martin Jev killed a cop. Technically, he pushed an undercover narcotics agent into an airlock and blew the outer hatch. Technically, it was the loss of pressure and lack of oxygen that killed the cop. Jev just pushed the button. Would've gotten away with it ...
Read More

A Practical Trip

By submission | October 18, 2012
Author : Robert White “Wait. I don't get it. I thought transit was supposed to be instant” “It was. It is.” The scientists are always so snarky. “We did all the tests, sent animals and clocks back to the beyond and everything was instant. So this here cannot be ...
Read More

They Stole My Soul!

By submission | October 17, 2012
Author : David Barber "Welcome back to the Stirling Surprise Show, with me, Haydon Stirling. Later, we'll be talking to fash sensation, Jess Marlboro, but first, They Stole My Soul." His earpiece murmured and Stirling turned smoothly to camera three. "Yes, my next guest, ...
Read More

Gamberol's Clock

By submission | October 16, 2012
Author : Alex Grover He breathes in with speckled time undivided, and he breathes out with golden dust. His body is bulbous, a multicolored neon affair, reds and greens and blacks all in lines like that of a heated circuit board, charred from overuse. His beard is human flaw ...
Read More

A Chance

By Clint Wilson | October 15, 2012
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer For a person thrust into such bleak and hopeless beginnings David had done well for himself. His parents, murdered by a slum gang when he was but a boy of five, and he himself taken into slavery, he had spent over a decade in their chains, ...
Read More

Flying Things

By submission | October 14, 2012
Author : Skyler Heathwaite The moonlight bled through thick overhead leaves and massive drosera. Lokshin blinked away sweat, peering up into the seething body of the forest. Sarant was up a tree nearby, much too long in coming down. The fighting of the flying things had ...
Read More

Chelonia

By submission | October 13, 2012
Author : Rachel Verkade The killer told me he'd had a turtle in his head. He seemed perfectly calm and reasonable about it. A turtle, living nestled in his brain. I asked him if the turtle was what had made him kill. He didn't know. If it did, he didn't hold any ill will ...
Read More

The Alchemist

By Julian Miles | October 12, 2012
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The elegant décor did nothing to lift the atmosphere in the room as the small group of officers and dignitaries parted to let Inspector Carbeth through. He strode up to the sprawled body and rapped his cane on the parquet flooring to prompt ...
Read More

Random Story :

  • Self-Regulating

    Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The spiders are watching …
Today’s Story