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Limited Options

By submission | April 10, 2011
Author : Steven Odhner "I can already tell you aren't interested in the admittedly confusing equations I've taken the time to write out, which is fine. So to give a quick and imprecise summary I will use the tired metaphor of Schrödinger's Cat, where a cat is placed in a box ...
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Adoption

By submission | April 9, 2011
Author : Harris Tobias It was adoption day at the facility. All those humans slated for euthanasia looking so bewildered, frightened and lost. How can anyone just leave them all to die? Thork and I rolled by the glass fronts of the cages stacked three rows high. So many of ...
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Sorry

By submission | April 8, 2011
Author : Richard Chins Sorry fragments of the dead man's face reflected the white of the setting moon, lighting the ragged road side hump of molten metal and highway slag. His burning flesh cocktailed with a tart tarmac stench that bit at the lip. I thought of burying him, ...
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Red Tank

By submission | April 7, 2011
Author : John Xero "BRRRRRRRMMMMMRRRRRRR" "This is my dad’s tank." "B-B-B-BOOM, B-B-B-BOOM" "It’s red and it has really, really big guns." "And it has scanners." "WJJJJJJJJJJJJ WJJJJJJJJJJJJJ" "The scanners show him where the bad guys are and then he blows the bad guys ...
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For Services Rendered

By Roi R. Czechvala | April 6, 2011
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Staff Writer The place never failed to depress me. You can’t polish a turd. The walls of the waiting area were painted off white and they had made an effort to buy a superior quality of cheap, shabby furniture. Around the corner it was different. ...
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Monitor

By Duncan Shields | April 5, 2011
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer I’m on a steamboat at night. It’s hot out. I’m standing at the railing throwing earthling dimes into the dark water in the Mississippi night. I’m wearing a white linen suit. I feel like a dandy but wool would be suicidal in this ...
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Communal Thought

By submission | April 4, 2011
Author : Patrick Condon Do you remember what it was like before? No. I don’t think so. Do you? We knew our civilization had peaked. The few world leaders left concluded that Communal Thought was the only solution. It is the one thing preventing ...
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The Light of other Universes

By submission | April 3, 2011
Author : Jeremy Wickins It was perhaps the greatest experiment of all time. For a split second, all other possible universes would be aligned, and we’d have knowledge of our place in the great order of things. – I threw the switch that brought the bizarre energies together ...
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Milk Dipped Eyes

By submission | April 2, 2011
Author : Richard Chins Blue Squadron stood swiftly to attention. Milk dipped eyes stared blankly back at me. Unfeeling? Indifferent? I feel a cloud pulse behind its eye, catch a fleck of black spinning uncontrollably in its peripheral vision. Truth and love. A dark, ...
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Something In The Water

By submission | April 1, 2011
Author : Martin Sumner We used to joke that they put something in the water. Cully was the first to go mad, when he was still only sixteen. They don't approve of that kind of language, of course; he had a 'nervous breakdown'. Started sending cigars in the post to his friends ...
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The End

By submission | March 31, 2011
Author : Iain Maloney I can’t recall how long I’ve been here. I sleep at odd hours: fitfully, but in bursts. Because everything else has changed, I do not heed the dregs of the old world. Dark and light, night and day. To the west; where the sun slinks away was my home. It ...
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World

By Duncan Shields | March 30, 2011
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer He based the intelligence of his machine on the process of sibling rivalry. It had long been noted that a constant challenge and attacking of one’s ideas resulted in stronger ideas. A lifelong bond formed around that rivalry but more ...
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Of Stars And Brilliance

By submission | March 29, 2011
Author : Sevanaka It is an unnatural sensation. A man is meant to stand; two feet solidly planted on the ground. Oh, for the sweet touch of earth between toes, grassy shoots tickling bare feet. Instead there is only a sinking sensation while the wind whispers its secrets; its ...
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Looking Glass

By submission | March 28, 2011
Author : N. Thomas Parshall Intro to Quantum Mechanics was the hardest class that I took during my junior year. String theory, field theory, and the Planck constant battered against the walls of my mind, and I was grasping none of it. Weeks, than months passed and my grade ...
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Protocol

By submission | March 27, 2011
Author : Eric Poch "So there's nothing I can do?" "That about sums it up, yes" Martin had been pacing in a damp field for the better part of an hour, speaking to his companion in increasingly hostile tones. "Then why the hell did you tell me!?" Martin rubbed his hands ...
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The Vote

By submission | March 26, 2011
Author : John Tudball A chorus of personalised beeps and buzzing erupts from our laps and in record time we're tapping on our Panels to see if this is the one, if this is the vote we've been waiting for. A chorus of groans, Pete swears at his screen. It's not. "What did you ...
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The First Warp Drive

By Patricia Stewart | March 25, 2011
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer The ship shook violently as it unexpectedly dropped out or warp. The captain was thrown to the deck where he could feel the tell-tale vibrations of explosions occurring somewhere on the ship. He climbed to his feet and activated the ...
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The Mutation Parlor

By submission | March 24, 2011
Author : Jeremy Koch Sasha lay on a rust-flecked chrome slab under the rewriter's dim green light, wincing slightly every few seconds as the self-service amputator locked into place. It slid a sequential series of nine hollow spikes, each six centimeters long, easily into the ...
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