No One Beats Us
Author: David Sydney
"We're running out of bronze."
"What?" Mel Schwartz squinted at his partner in disbelief.
"Look at these greaves, Mel."
"My God. What must his shins be like?"
What was true of the greaves applied to the javelin, spear, scimitar, and bronze mail as ...
Pants
Author: Alastair Millar
Most people don’t meet the love of their life with their pants around their ankles, but that's what happens when you find a rip in your EVA skinsuit and don't have any patches handy. Fortunately there are emergency suits near all the airlocks; ...
Chained Reaction
Author: Majoki
“The world is a Rube Goldberg machine, a bowling ball on a teeter totter, and all it will ever do is scratch someone’s ridiculous itch,” Amira d’Kay coolly observed to Riisa who nodded thoughtlessly, content to let her aunt ramble in the smothering warmth of ...
Seventeen Thousand Fires
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer
Will burn across the worlds.
From shoreline to mountain top, from wrecked vehicle to ransacked fortress, they will light a night like none will ever see again, and will start a conflagration that will blaze so far onwards we will never ...
The Boy and The Android
Author: JH Mentzer
The boy was getting lonelier every day. He could almost not stand how many hours he would spend sitting in the woods, watching the babbling of the creeks, as the sun would rise and set, set and rise. Moss grew on his southern-facing side. He traveled home ...
The Madhouse
Author: Bill Cox
It’s amazing what you can learn in a bar. All kinds of secrets come out with the liberal application of alcohol. Let me tell you about one such occasion.
It was a Friday night and I was knocking back the beers on my lonesome. The regulars were in, along ...
The Banquet
Author: Matthew Scott
The article that started it all appeared in Progress in General and Special Relativity. Andrey Ivanov’s Development of the artificial cosmic string as a method of time travel was as welcome to Theodore as a sudden geomagnetic reversal was to a ...
Titans of Industry
Author: Becky Neher
Something enormous strode through the double doors of the dilapidated, rust-begrimed warehouse. Not quite whale, not quite elephant, not quite ogre, but nevertheless a creature hefty, fleshy, and odorous. Sporting purple and magenta beads glittering ...
The Z-GNOME Project
Author: Majoki
A little problem, she’d reported. Fatima was a master of understatement. In some ways, Jorge felt she’d deserved to be eaten by his monstrous spawn.
Though, it probably wasn’t the time to be reflecting on Fatima’s missteps. Explosions still rocked the ...
The Axe Forgets, The Tree Does Not
Author: David Barber
The final part of the plan involved capturing a Jirt Princess.
Morgan led one assault team, a band of Earthers who took terrible losses before the Jirt security swarm was destroyed.
A last Jirt warrior blocked the way down into the palace. ...
Waiting for a Being
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer
I thought the skinny functionary nodded my way. The two of them are approaching, all eager smiles, curious glances, and whispered asides.
"Are these seats taken? The server said they weren't, but you know, they sometimes get things wrong. ...
Medium.net
Author: Rainbow Heartshine
“Internet porn is succubi terraforming. Is what you’re telling me with this.”
“We embrace all kinks and fetishes that can be worked out with love,” Dylan typed as if in response to himself, though he couldn’t really say it was either 'typing', ...
Space Genies Sometimes Run Late
Author: David Broz
There is plenty of time to think out in space, in the middle of nowhere, just me and the dark and the pinpricks of the stars.
And I think about how I miss you. I want to ask you, do you ever think of me?
My mind is wandering.
What if I was given ...
Solitude
Author: Kristen Henderson
Her right hand was so chewed up by the churning machine at the mill that she was left with little choice. Little choice but to have a dowdy female surgeon attach a claw-like contraption to what straggly shattered pieces were left behind. If only ...
City of Light: Origins
Author: Maria Brekke
Myrna zipped toward the city. A ten-ton mosquito pursued her, wings drumming annihilation. Colony security was rudimentary, but her kidnapping had raised insectile alarms.
She leaned hard across her hoverboard, praying her cargo was secure as she ...
Long Legs of Summer
Author: Majoki
Summer’s long legs, the daylight stretching late in almost eternal dusk. They sat on the back stoop, the three friends fixed on the glow of the horizon, city and sky, a widening maw ready to devour them.
They were not a poetic group. Hyperbole and metaphor ...
Department Q
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer
“John?”
“Yes?”
“Got another one. Big cable channel. Going out past Bindenhouse into the wilds.”
“Okay, pop my contacts open and scroll to ‘D’.”
“Got it.”
“You’re looking for ‘Department Q’.”
“Found it.”
“Open it. Click on ‘action ...
Systems Update Available
Author: Patrick Hueller
Published 3:34 PM, Wednesday, July 31, 2030
Associated Press
NEW AI A THREAT TO HUMANITY?
Today was supposed to be a big day for technology fans. Instead, software engineer Miranda Cartwright issued a dire warning ...
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