U

Concerning Dark Matters

By Patricia Stewart | May 2, 2012
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer “Damn, there’s nothing there. I don’t like this one bit,” said NASA’s Jim Mason to his fellow astronomer. “Based on the perturbations to the orbits of Neptune and Uranus, the computer says the damn thing has 45% of the mass of the ...
Read More

Double Blind

By Stephen R. Smith | May 1, 2012
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Dr. Darius from the Psychology lab walked along the line of students to Dr. Thorne's adjacent Bio lab, reaching the door just as it opened to emit a thin wiry girl with a pale face and electric blue irises. She paused only a second before ...
Read More

The Ministry of Dirty Tricks

By submission | April 30, 2012
Author : Colin W Campbell When it all started, Duke was just one of these overpaid, do anything, off-home-world operatives. The planet administrators were little impressed when he asked for a Council Meeting to propose a new section for what he called dirty-tricks. What ...
Read More

Vector

By submission | April 29, 2012
Author : TJMoore I'm starting to get a little worried now. Some more kids stopped by to visit Adrian today. At first it was just his friends, kids that I know and have met before. Now, it seems like every teenager in the county is stopping by. Almost as troubling is the ...
Read More

Curtain Call for Feeling

By submission | April 28, 2012
Author : Jack Barton ‘Joy, joy, I wish joy to you all.’ Karl raised his arms as he addressed the crowd. ‘And joy is what you shall have, if you can accept it.’ Beaming, he eyed the hesitant audience. It wasn’t just junkies and religious zealots anymore; there were businessmen ...
Read More

Activation Required

By submission | April 27, 2012
Author : Donald O'Barra “You’re so full of shit, Barry,” said Kent. “No, I’m serious. I was reading about gene activation. They’ve managed to wake up really old genes in lab mice. What if humans thousands of years ago all had superpowers? What if they could fly or something ...
Read More

Jack

By submission | April 26, 2012
Author : David Barber The woman sitting the other side of the table is Jan Fierro, the Department chief. We've never talked much, I mean, I’m just a jack aren’t I? Though once I photoshopped a great nude pinup of her and posted it in the men's changing room as a joke. I never ...
Read More

Revolution

By submission | April 25, 2012
Author : Autumn Humphrey A dog barks rhythmically in the distance, its voice distorted by the noise of the world, sounding a desperate call of, “Come here! Come here!” It has been this way since the revolution, odd sounds ringing out, confirming things are not the same, a ...
Read More

Bug-Eyed Monsters

By submission | April 24, 2012
Author : Bob Newbell The captain repeatedly tapped his mesothoracic exoskeleton contemplatively and looked out the main viewport at the blue and white planet below. Two-thirds of the surface was underwater and its atmosphere was over 20 percent oxygen. How could life, let ...
Read More

Heirloom

By Julian Miles | April 23, 2012
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer “Sarge, that’s illegal, isn’t it?” “Yes Jim, completely against the rules of engagement.” “So we can complain?” “Hell yes, son. I’m sure the Captain will be right on the blower to the moderators as soon as the opposition finish killing ...
Read More

Whipped Cream

By submission | April 22, 2012
Author : Thomas Desrochers Ellie's leg was broken. They couldn't run any more. Andre gently eased her up against a grimy brick wall, trying to ignore the grimace of pain cracking across her porcelain face. “It's going to be alright, love,” he whispered. “It's going to be ...
Read More

Piñata

By submission | April 21, 2012
Author : Daniel M. Bensen Flaming debris rained over Warsaw. "We got another one," Specialist first rank Donaldson sat back in his chair and sighed happily at the red fireball against the blue sky. "Its over non-US territory, but we shot it before the Russians, so we'll get ...
Read More

Comeback

By Duncan Shields | April 20, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer The pins and needles stopped caressing her body. Her muscles twitched to life as she took her first gasping steps out of the cryotube and lit a cigarette from the pack beside her clothes. She tossed back the two whiskey shots provided by ...
Read More

Union Blues

By Stephen R. Smith | April 19, 2012
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer "That suit's not safe on my dock," the voice boomed across the row of vacant lifter pads to the mezzanine, "who gave you clearance to come out here?" Horik's visor was up, the bulky exo-suit exaggerating his movements as he marched across ...
Read More

Anchoring Shot

By submission | April 18, 2012
Author : Ian Hill, of 14 The crimson clothed hunter stood leaning against a large boulder smoking a cigar lazily, his pointed brown fedora angled towards the ground to ward off any unnecessary light. His outfit was a mismatched black and red military formal with large collars ...
Read More

Make a Dog Mean

By submission | April 17, 2012
Author : Jason Frank Breikf was heading back with a fresh beer and he looked over where they had the lead space man all trussed up so anybody wanted could get a kick in. Everybody got in a bunch, looked like. Breikf sure had, but just then something in the cool of the evening ...
Read More

Shore Leave

By Clint Wilson | April 16, 2012
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer Shore leave at last! Ensign Pull Crimson was wide-eyed as he made his way through the dirty bustling streets of Port Tidaria. Thousands of aliens, both humanoid and otherwise shaped, filed past the endless teahouses, massage parlors and ...
Read More

Dispatch Runner

By submission | April 15, 2012
Author : Bob Newbell A thin cloud of red dust trailed behind Orton's motorcycle. I'm running out of time, he thought to himself as he rode across Cydonia Mensae. The temperature was already down to -40 degrees Celsius and continued steadily dropping. The sun would be setting ...
Read More

Random Story :

Today’s Story