Author : D'n Russler "Quick! Someone get Raul some water, he's nearly finished!" The Survey team rushed to follow Hallie's shouted command, as, verging on panic she checked her barely-moving team member's vital signs. Yahn, the team's medic, slowly moistened the dark-haired ...

Author : Damien Krsteski Just as I made my way next to an older lady on the pew, the general climbed on the stage. All the commotion died down, everyone's ears eager to hear him speak. After some quieting down, he began, his tone as morose as the weather outside. "My fellow ...

Author : Cal Glover-Wessel I guess I thought there would be more turmoil, more mounting panic, but when you know the date and time of the end I guess it's easier to accept it. There were no riots; there were no religious upheavals. It was as if the whole world had skipped ...

Author : David Shute They've had me running assassination jobs for awhile now. Terrorists, political loose ends, and the occasional despot in between bigger jobs. It kicked off with Nan Kang-Dae, a North Korean defector picked up by the Chinese authorities. His government ...

Author : Dan Simon He didn't remember signing the death waiver. He didn't remember enrolling in University at all. But he was at University, so he must have signed a death waiver at some point. He was beginning to crack under the pressure. That was all. He had gotten an A- ...

Author : Julian Miles, Featured Writer That was what they looked like. Tongues. In every possible colour you could conceive that a tongue could turn. They came to earth as refugees from a conflict of such horror that only the vaguest rumours and hints escaped, the details of ...