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First Date

By Roi R. Czechvala | August 18, 2010
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Staff Writer Paul was nervous. His hands shook violently. Petals from the bouquet of daisies and indian paintbrush he had picked for her fell to the floor. Get hold of yourself man, he thought to himself, you’ve been talking to Lucrezia for over a ...
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A Broken Home

By submission | August 17, 2010
Author : Kent Rosenberger The vidphone at the other end picked up on the second ring. “Family Affairs, how can I help you?” “Customer number 26337NS-24.” The attendant typed in the numbers in her computer. “Ah yes. Mr. Johnson. How can I help you?” Johnson gave a wan ...
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Beyond Your Command

By submission | August 16, 2010
Author : Chris Amies Mewi Lupa suli sat and inspected the heel of one boot, which had come adrift revealing an odd honeycomb pattern in the structure. With her tongue she dislodged a small piece of carrot between two teeth - the relic of her morning’s teethcleaning. On Hydris ...
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The Walker

By submission | August 15, 2010
Author : William P Sanders The man trod the dusty, broken path, poorly-shod feet disturbing the detritus of a hundred years of decay and rot, sending up small plumes of filth as his heels impacted with the grime and rose again, each step propelling him onward into a future ...
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The Lonely Worms

By submission | August 14, 2010
Author : Daan Kogelmans

Harry has wrapped a tentacle around his inner lobe, which means he is thinking deeply. Two of his cigarettes have gone out, he squints in the orange smoke. Then he coughs.

“You smoke too much,” I say.

“I know, I know,” he extinguishes the ...

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Sam

By submission | August 13, 2010
Author : Jake Lane You've never been the most outgoing person, Sam. It's not your fault, I'm sure, but that doesn't stop it from being the truth. As wonderful as you are now (I love you, Sam, you know that), you could be so much more wonderful. From the moment we met I could ...
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Quater-life Crisis

By submission | August 12, 2010
Author : Alec Ow “When are you going to get a new body?” I ping my guildmates, “I’ve got girlfriend aggro, this might take a while,” and sheathe my sword. They only manage a cursory glance and a quick "later mate" before they and the dragons’ den dissolves away into a white ...
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Look Before You Leap

By Roi R. Czechvala | August 11, 2010
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Staff Writer The smell of sulphur permeated his suit. His body absorbed and metabolized it, leaving a permanent foul taste in his mouth. He exuded sulphur through every pore. In short, Martin Petrov stank. This, however, was the least of his ...
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Copycats

By Duncan Shields | August 10, 2010
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer They were a race that liked to live amongst the other races to better understand them. They were diplomatic yet fearsome, possessing great weaponry but very gentle in one-on-one conversations. They looked like starving centaurs crossed ...
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Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder

By submission | August 9, 2010
Author : CJ Bergin Tom rolled over in his sleep and felt his arm fall onto cool skin. “Careful honey” a whisper in his ear said. “Unless of course, you’re trying to start something.” A smile crawled up Tom’s face as he moaned playfully. “No” the word resounded through the ...
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Seventh Contact

By submission | August 8, 2010
Author : Dale Anson Seventh Contact The ship was nothing but a bit of gossamer, wrapped in a smallish chunk of spacetime and plasma, elongated to impossible dimensions. Krista's thougths, stretched by relativistic time, traveled from synapse to synapse in mere seconds. ...
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God Will Not Return

By submission | August 7, 2010
Author : Christopher Booth The life support system wheezed. Not that it made any difference. Yahwee could barely hear. Eons in space and the ability to communicate without making a sound made Yahwee’s ears barely usable. His big black eyes wanted to cry, but the ability ...
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Concept Scope

By submission | August 6, 2010
Author : Daniel Fuhr “The concept is simple enough. We send a very powerful telescope out faster than the speed of light to a calculated area, then zoom in to the Earth at a specific location and hopefully we can watch past events.” “What you’re talking about is time ...
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Sea and Wind and Fishermen

By submission | August 5, 2010
Author : Credentiality "This is our in-system debugger, for when we want to get really close-up. It isn't necessary for setting up hurricanes, but it's a good excuse to go down and play." Bar helped Nim set up his avatar and load in. "Heya Phil, how's business?" asked Bar, ...
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The White Room

By submission | August 4, 2010
Author : W. Kevin Christian The room was not cold. It was not wet. It was not noisy or colorful. It was quiet and white. No pictures on the walls. No carpet on the floors. There was just a table with a man on it and a black-and-white digital clock hung from the ceiling ...
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Missing Lockdown

By submission | August 3, 2010
Author : Andy Mee It would be easy to say that they had disappeared, but that wasn’t quite true. What was once a row of Victorian terraced houses still lingered in the cold swirling air, now just a choking dust, like a visible air-borne virus. An hour before sunrise, as she ...
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Jumpstarting Earth’s Hydromagnetic Dynamo

By Patricia Stewart | August 2, 2010
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer The weakening of Earth’s magnetic field was becoming critical. It had been decreasing five percent a decade since the early twenty first century. If the decay could not be reversed, near-lethal doses of charged cosmic radiation would ...
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Likeness

By Stephen R. Smith | August 1, 2010
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Thomas was spending another Saturday afternoon looking for deals. Today it was furniture, specifically something unique to fill the vacant corner by the window in his apartment. "That's Ralph Lauren," he hadn't heard the salesman approach ...
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