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Humans Don't Belong in Space

By Duncan Shields | October 2, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer The robot pirates picked The Royal Flush because it had humans onboard. The ships warped into realspace like darts coming to an abrupt stop, surrounding The Royal Flush in a sudden and precise pincushion ambush. Onboard The Royal Flush, ...
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Parallel Quantum Universe

By Patricia Stewart | October 1, 2012
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer “Uh oh, I think we ended up in a parallel universe,” said Senior Technical Specialist Jim Wright. “What are you talking about,” replied Ensign Vince Saccomandi. “We teleported to exactly where we were supposed to, the lobby of the ...
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Chips

By submission | September 30, 2012
Author : Kevin Crisp The four rotary blades of the harvester chopped violently at the dank, cold air as it rested with spidery legs on the jagged rock. The sickly sweet smoke of its four combustion engines wafted faintly up the heights. Every thought was punctuated by the ...
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Commercial Break

By submission | September 29, 2012
Author : Desmond Hussey Black rain streaks the windows of Mr. Nielson’s 35th story apartment. Beyond the aqueous smear, a tiny room is illuminated by the hypnotic flicker of an enormous, wafer thin television screen. Outlined by the electric glow, a mass of limp flesh, ...
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Trinket

By submission | September 28, 2012
Author : Thomas Desrochers “Hi Kristen, it's your mum...” Jaques picked up a picture of Kristin Trinket off of her bedroom nightstand. Twenty years old, red hair, stunning green eyes. Crooked, imperfect teeth at home in one of the warmest smiles he had ever seen. He set the ...
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Immersion

By submission | September 27, 2012
Author : Andrew DiMatteo "Now, there are a lot of channels down there. Some of 'em may surprise you. Be careful . It's easy to get distracted when you're Immersed. Always remember to pay attention to your surroundings and…" The dive operator was giving us condescending ...
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Generation Gap

By Clint Wilson | September 26, 2012
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer The one-hundred-and -eleven year old man stood at the transit stop listening to an antique MP3 player. His electric blue faux hawk practically glowed in the afternoon sun. Suddenly an eighty-eight year old man came strolling up, twirling a ...
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Hacker

By Julian Miles | September 25, 2012
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The pastel decorated walls were hung with tasteful art that changed as needed to offset any negative morale the system garnered from the gestalt of everyone’s mindnets. Since the advent of the cranial implant, society had changed beyond all ...
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Evolution

By Duncan Shields | September 24, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer We were so wrong. We saw evolution as a paring down to essentials. Our pinkies were getting shorter and soon we might only have four fingers, for instance. We theorized evolution as a process that winnowed away the unnecessary. It ...
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Correspondence

By submission | September 23, 2012
Author : D. Ahren Bell “Peregrine, this is the ship. I… I have an important issue that I must discuss with you. Our fuel reserves have run out, and photovoltaic energy is not enough to keep me in orbit for much longer.” Peregrine’s response time was, per usual, long delayed, ...
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I Friended an Alien

By submission | September 22, 2012
Author : Brian McDermott “This could be the single most important event in the history of our planet,” Jake leaned over the formica. “I think I've been friended by an Alien,” Amir's stunned silence was broken by the sounds of his legs peeling off the vinyl bench. Jake slowly ...
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Salvage Operation

By submission | September 21, 2012
Author : Bob Newbell Ship's Log, 1330, 24 June 2533. Captain April Green recording. Al-Basri and Sanchez continue to work on the alien ship's engines. The vessel appears to use an antimatter-enhanced helium-3/deuterium fusion rocket not unlike the interstellar drive on the ...
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Cargo

By submission | September 20, 2012
Author : S. P. Mahoney “Freighter Tigris, Control. You’re straying out of your flight path -- explain. Now.” Maria and Crone shared a look, before Maria put on her headset. Rank hath its responsibilities. “Control, this is Tigris. Something hit us ...
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Ticket to Paradise

By Clint Wilson | September 19, 2012
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer Two-hundred and twenty years had finally passed. We had reached our destination. From our sleep tubes we could see the first images of the beautiful green planet on our displays. But I did not care about any of it. Then as our ship ...
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Big Brother

By Julian Miles | September 18, 2012
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The battlefield is silent and empty. In the city beyond, we can see figures on the remaining vantage points. All of us gawking like children as the spectacle continues. The dawning light reflects from angles or scatters in rainbow flashes ...
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Sisters of Mars

By Duncan Shields | September 17, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer I watched as the Martian women came down the stairs from their shuttle onto the tarmac. Regular Martian humans smeared red clay into their skin but these Ambassadors had tattooed their entire bodies red. They believed that if your skin ...
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Twitch

By submission | September 16, 2012
Author : Christina Richard More often than not, pretty girls do not get master’s degrees in neurorobotics. I am as ugly as your worst nightmare, but the bots I design have made grown men forget how to pronounce their own last names. And considering what happens to some of the ...
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Before Ruin

By submission | September 15, 2012
Author : Cruz Andronico Fernandez People were getting sick everyday. Scott could care less. It was just something talked about on the television. So when he fell off his bike and tore up his arm he was only thinking about when he could get back on and ride again. The day ...
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