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Step On A Crack

By Duncan Shields | March 15, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer The thing about the planet Kuroshka was that it had seventeen centers all orbiting each other. It was several times the size of Jupiter but had managed to create a mantle. The centers had formed their own molten-core solar system deep ...
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Performance Art

By Roi R. Czechvala | March 14, 2012
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Alumnus I stood over him. His blood made a growing pool as it exited the wound in his back. The ounce slug of lead had gone all the way through. He looked up at me with crazed eyes. He raised his hands to me. He tried to speak, but choked on pink, ...
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The Big Game

By Clint Wilson | March 13, 2012
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer As they lowered into a spot outside the arena and Jeremy’s father shut the hove’s engines down he continued to give his son the pep talk. “A year enslavement. Do you even know what that means? Of course you don’t,” he answered himself. “You ...
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Safety First

By Julian Miles | March 12, 2012
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer “The view from here is mighty fine, it sends a shiver up my spine.” I laugh at Kara’s ditty as it arrives. Nothing but the truth, even out here. My suit keeps me spread-eagled on the side of cannon four as it thunders along with its seven ...
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The Digital Dame

By submission | March 11, 2012
Author : A. Zachary Spery I was looking good when I wheeled into Chaucer's, the hottest singles bar in lower downtown. I just had my corpus bridge upgraded to a new Mitsushimi DX900q and installed prominently on the side of my Neodynamics' engramatic coprocessor case. My high ...
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Drudge

By Stephen R. Smith | March 10, 2012
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Mark stood a few feet from the doorman and presented his ID, which was accepted with apparent derision. The heavily muscled bouncer glanced over the details of the badly forged photo card and tossed it back. "One point eight meters? No way ...
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Snap Decision

By submission | March 9, 2012
Author : George R. Shirer Thraewen hangs in the middle of the view-pool, pretty and pristine. Dillon and Three can see the nightside’s cities, bright constellations scattered across the Capwen Archipelago. Three strokes the Starfish’s controls and the bioship moves. Night ...
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The Preacher

By Roi R. Czechvala | March 8, 2012
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Alumnus The sky was dark. So dark the streetlights came on at noon. A storm was on the rise. He paid the weather scant attention. The sudden cold gust barely reached him. He merely rolled his shoulders deeper into his battered leather duster and ...
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Sun Dragons

By Clint Wilson | March 7, 2012
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer “The satellite passes above us now.” “I know my lord. I can sense it up there too.” “How dare they… spy on us like this?” “They are unaware of us my lord, they only study the planet.” “They have their own planet. We don’t travel there, ...
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Orbital Decay

By Patricia Stewart | March 6, 2012
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer The maintenance spacecraft pulled alongside Lunar Array II, located in selenocentric orbit approximately 500 miles above Crater Korolev on the far side of the moon. Lunar Array II was the second of six lunar satellites to be visited by ...
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Little Boxes

By Duncan Shields | March 5, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer Only the super-rich could afford these beachfront houses. The houses were green, fully off the energy grid using their own geothermal, wind, wave and solar energy collectors. The houses were maintained by computers that informed the ...
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Ancient Evil

By submission | March 4, 2012
Author : John E. Geoffrey It was at the time when the stars were right and a full moon stood over the desert, when a rose bloomed over the ruins of the ancient, nameless metropolis, the name of which had been banished and forgotten over the course of the millenia (but which ...
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What They Are Afraid Of

By submission | March 3, 2012
Author : Ion Jim was excited. He gleefully danced about as the elevator slowly squeaked downward. He was thinking about the popcorn he had saved from that convenience store he found a few weeks back and how this would be the perfect opportunity to pop it. Its not like he ...
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Icarus

By submission | March 2, 2012
Author : J.D. Rice “Icarus to Daedalus! We have primary stabilizer failure! Repeat, we have primary stabilizer failure! We're losing altitude. Please advise!” The lieutenant was shouting, screaming into his microphone, trying to raise his voice over the sound of his ship as ...
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Hell Comes to Slug City

By Clint Wilson | March 1, 2012
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer Agent Rockton was all on his own here in the heart of the city. He appeared no more than a shadow, creeping stealthily through twisting service alleys under the cover of the ink black night that hung perpetually above this remote rock that ...
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Dry County

By Julian Miles | February 29, 2012
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer Imagine a frontier settlement from any decent cowboy film. Then substitute troops of the Galacta Navir for every cowboy. Make the planet it sits on something beyond arid and set the humidity to nearly zero. Welcome to my world: Rumbleday; ...
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Jack

By submission | February 28, 2012
Author : Asher Wismer Jack realized he'd been shot. The pain lanced up his leg, shooting through his hip into his chest, and for a moment, he thought that another of the flying bullets had struck home. Instead, the pain receded, only a slight twinge as his armor took over and ...
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Delilah

By Patricia Stewart | February 27, 2012
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer “I’m sorry to report Mr. Jones, that your suspicions were correct,” said the private detective that I had hired to follow my wife. “Delilah has been cheating on you.” He rotated his padd so that I could see the cascading slideshow of my ...
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