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Stupid is as Stupid Does

By Duncan Shields | March 22, 2012
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer Humans had always been looking for a way to legitimately kill the stupid. But where did they draw the line? An outside force had to make the choice. Humans couldn’t morally make that kind of decision. After first contact, Earth was ...
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Kiss Migration

By Clint Wilson | March 21, 2012
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer The Pai-Toxh beings of the twin planet set, Andromedae 2787A and B, were nearing their migration time. The entire flock had just about finished feeding and were full of energy for their upcoming journey. Calls went out as alpha leaders ...
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Triage

By Julian Miles | March 20, 2012
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer Life shouldn't be this easy to take. Flick a switch and listen to the muted swoosh of a section spitting its atmosphere into vacuum. Of course, it's not so easy for those losing it. The agonies of the dying beat against my mind and reduce ...
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Underground

By Stephen R. Smith | March 19, 2012
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer The detective stood just inside the tape at the doorway to Grant's office and surveyed the carnage. Deep maroon fluid had been spattered over most surfaces, some of it obviously while still under pressure as it had reached the ceiling ...
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Star Fair

By submission | March 18, 2012
Author : Kyle Hubbard Humans are remarkably ugly. The kylhu child had never seen a real one before, so it stared with morbid fascination at the man on the stage. The human marched back and forth on two legs, bellowing and waving his bizarre limbs in grand, sweeping gestures. ...
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Shadows

By submission | March 17, 2012
Author : Thomas Desrochers I found her on my way home from a party. She was sitting in the middle of the park's square in the four shadows of the four streetlights, and she was hugging her knees to her chest as if her life depended on it while her head was tucked in behind ...
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The Fine Print

By Patricia Stewart | March 16, 2012
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer The Judge yawned as he seated himself at the bench. “What are we doing here, Mike?” he asked the bailiff. “Your Honor, we are hearing the civil case of ‘Captain Taylor versus Solar System Transportation, Inc.’, a dispute over wages due ...
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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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