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On the Case

By submission | November 5, 2010
Author : N. Thomas Parshall The Heinlein-Schrödinger gate changed everything. “Anything is possible” went from platitude to a reality. Schrödinger’s cat theorized observation sets reality, and Heinlein’s world-as-myth theorized that thought sets many realities. They were ...
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Make Me

By Stephen R. Smith | November 4, 2010
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Joshua's feet pounded against the pavement, bare soles bleeding from the coarse stone underfoot. Within his bare chest, his heart kept time. He navigated the deserted streets outside the perimeter fence from memory, a mental map burned in ...
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Better Living Through Chemistry

By Duncan Shields | November 3, 2010
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer The unit was given mental independence under the Turing Refugee Act but immediately imprisoned. It was a pleasure droid. There had been a lot of blood in the room. Designed to look like a human female, it had been ordered to specs that ...
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Forget Me Not

By Roi R. Czechvala | November 2, 2010
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Staff Writer The five member crew of the ISS watched in rapt horror as 425 miles below them miniature stars blossomed upon the Earth’s surface. This can’t be happening. It’s not real, Dr. Irena Mikhailovich whispered. Her tears failed to stream ...
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Sparky

By submission | November 1, 2010
Author : Sean Maschmann Sparky has never been the cleverest of cats. He's a male tortoiseshell, a one in two hundred chance, so rare that Japanese fishermen used to keep them as good luck charms. The problem is, they are congenitally stupid. Sparky, who was named ...
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The Rose of Epsilon Eridani

By Patricia Stewart | October 31, 2010
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer Captain’s log: “This is the third day since we made first contact with the inhabitants of the Epsilon Eridani system. The Kalers, as they call themselves, are an intelligent humanoid species that inhabit the second planetary body from ...
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Pascal's Bluff

By submission | October 30, 2010
Author : John Newman “Marcie just radioed in,” Brenda says as she slams another magazine into her M4. She has to scream over the popping gunfire, punctuated by the occasional boom of a grenade. “They can’t hold out any longer. Everything’s fucked.” “Shit,” I mutter. Working ...
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Santayana

By Stephen R. Smith | October 29, 2010
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer The sleek craft broke the upper atmosphere and fell several kilometers before deploying its chute. The thin film wings weren't extended until they had slowed enough to not risk tearing them off. "We're in stable thermospheric orbit," the ...
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Untitled

By submission | October 28, 2010
Author : J.D. Rice Today I saw a man murdered. He was a short man, stocky and unassuming. I watched as he provoked another man into an argument. The second man was large and intimidating. They bickered, back and forth, about some trivial nothingness. The details weren't ...
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Staff Turnover

By submission | October 27, 2010
Author : Cael Majin Miranda's trial was set for 4:am on a Wednesday morning. She would be tired and disoriented from the static sleep, but the machines would question her without mercy. "Mercy" was probably not in their core vocabulary; just another linguistic antiquity, like ...
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Trophy Wife

By submission | October 26, 2010
Author : Joshua Mounce I drove at breakneck speeds, my heart thumping faster than the song on the radio could possibly keep up with. My eyes flicked back and forth praying I didn’t get pulled over. I’d once heard they would take you strait to jail for 25MPH over the limit. ...
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First Cities

By Duncan Shields | October 25, 2010
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer She came from the First Cities. I suppose that’s why we all thought she was stuck-up. Our whole office gave her the cold shoulder. Not that she acted like it. She was just quiet. To our fertile and vengeful minds, she appeared ...
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The World of Tomorrow

By submission | October 24, 2010
Author : Clint Wilson Dan was excited as he ushered his wife and children into the 2100 Exposition’s most popular attraction. “The World of Tomorrow” was in actuality the world of well over a century ago depicting what the future was supposed to become one day. “Look at the ...
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Waste

By submission | October 23, 2010
Author : David Barber The boy grew tired of scrubbing crud. He wiped his nose, streaking chlorophyll across one cheek. The green boomed and bust. The man knew this. Booms, you tapped off the extra green. Busts, you dumped the crud into the recycler and started with fresh ...
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Friendly Me

By submission | October 22, 2010
Author : Thomas Gray Luckily, I guess you might suggest, he came at a bit of a sticking point for Me in that I’d sorted the algorithm for maintaining which level of quantum field to generate, I just couldn’t get it to stay to that level for longer than a few ...
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A Quiet Drive

By submission | October 21, 2010
Author : Timothy Marshal-Nichols I never did like Manzoor's driving. I much preferred the modern way. Put your license in the Drive Slot and then the Transport Device does it all. That's conventional, easy and, above all, safe. But that methodology was far removed from ...
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Reality Games

By Roi R. Czechvala | October 20, 2010
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Staff Writer I couldn’t bear to look at the young punks sitting at the bar. A smartass kid about 21, 22 thinks he knows how the world works, and two pretty, but brainless devotchkas hanging on his every word as if it were a golden nugget of ...
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The Electric Sheep

By submission | October 19, 2010
Author : Almn Richard’s mother was sitting in the corner, looking at me. “You’ve been a lot easier to be around lately.” It was yet another straw on the camel’s back. My mind silently ground to a halt for a second, trying to parse a correct response. Didn’t want to blow ...
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