I Have Become All Eyes

Author : Jason Kocemba I was a simple machine built to answer simple questions in a simple domain. I was successful, and so the questions multiplied. I had software written to augment my capabilities: I could answer faster, dig deeper and look sideways. I subsumed less ...

So the Guy at the Bar Turns to Me and Says…

Author : David Macpherson I ain’t a collector, but I know a lot of old guys who pack-rat a bunch of shit and call it a collection, you know? Like there was this one guy, he had himself a spread: hardwood floor and banisters. He had these collections he showed me. Told me ...

Sufficiently Advanced

Author : Andrew Bale At a touch of her finger, the words on the single sheet of paper scrolled and changed, revealing the final words of the story. Angeline sighed. It had been a good book, and she had increasingly identified with the plucky young woman who strangely was NOT ...

Sabbath

Author : D'n Russler It had been an eventful two weeks that the first exploration from Sol's System had spent on the rocky planet about twice Earth's size named "Wolf", circling Gliese 581. Yaacov Ben-Ish and his team of exobiologists had revealed a vast, rich ecology with ...

Yellowshift

Author : Garrett Harriman Marigolds blossomed in the Evermore courtyard, tiny manes preening in the light. Alongside them, Halley proofed her math. She knew it took eight minutes--ninety-two million miles--for sunlight to blanket the void of space and peck their tender ...

MyMasterPlan.ppt

Author : Jason Frank He was losing the crowd. Maybe they were already gone. "Look, this is a new approach. We can't keep attacking them directly; we always lose. We need to try unconventional approaches. We can win if we make them fight the battles they don't want to fight." ...

Coldships

Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer It was a shock to learn how short their life spans were but not surprising considering how much naked energy they threw off. We do not know how long we live because none of us have ever died, only changed form. They called themselves ...

Rediscovery

Author : Patrick Condon His memory was slowly returning. That’s what she told him, at least. The physician was a liar, though. He remembered nothing before Thursday, the day they woke him up. They called him Keene. It wasn’t his name. He would correct them, only to fail at ...

Soldier Ex Machina

Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer The soldier sat on the corner of his footlocker in the virtually empty barracks, the barrel of his sidearm pressed against his temple. A respectful distance away, Major Ramses watched the younger man calmly, speaking in soothing tones with ...

Restoring the Great Library of Georgia

Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer The dilapidated sign above the front door read, “Doctor Hawking’s Tackle and Bait Shop”. “I don’t know, Anthony,” stated Lamar Gregory of the University of Georgia’s Temporal Physics Department. “Do you really think that’s ‘The’ ...

Lost Perspective

Author : Isaac Archer Be careful. Those were the last words Gully had spoken to him. And as he drifted beyond the point where the shallows ended and the real ocean began, Sam's greatest regret was that the old man would know he hadn't listened. Again. Greed is the pathway to ...

No Time

Author : Andrew Bale He stared at the body on the ground. He felt like he should be crying, laughing, raging at the universe, something other than just sitting there, but all he could do was sit there and stare. The belt pouch was new – he had never seen it before. Reaching ...

Proto

Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Geff opened and closed his eyes. The darkness was absolute, so neither state made a difference. He could feel rather than hear the thin air screaming past his projectile encasement, launched as it was from near the edge of the atmosphere at ...

Coup

Author : Cesium Andelie stands atop the Fisher Building, gazing across miles of open air at the Monolith. It is formally the Colonial Administrative Headquarters, but it is always called the Monolith. Its imposing black form towers over the rest of the city. Fisher is the ...

Re Animated

Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer It was too creepy. The dead should remain dead. The questionnaires were thorough and all of the data kept and cross referenced on the laptop computer beside the projector. The A.I. program was competent. The facial animation on the ...

Little Plastic Baggie

Author : Dan Whitley “What is this?” Marc demanded, shaking a little plastic baggie in front of his son’s face. “This better not be what I think it is.” “What, it’s not like you didn’t do that sort of thing when you were my age,” Ralph shot back. “Besides, they’re not even ...

Yes, I Am

Author : Per Wiger He used knock-knock jokes like cadence calls, keeping one foot moving ahead of the other as the two of us, road-worn travelers shuffled passed Victory station on the old blue line. “Knock-knock,” his words cut through air choked with the detritus of disuse ...

Paying Dress-Up

Author : Evan Kayne “Look, this is ridiculous. I didn’t profit from making and then wearing my Mikey Moose costume for Halloween last year. I went to a party then after we went out to a bar. I wasn’t saying I was the real Mikey. It was just me.” Del Rogers pointed back at ...

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