Mobius Revisited
Author : LaTosha Hall The three children stared at the table top. “How’s it doin’ that?” the fair haired boy whispered, reaching two fingers out towards the dull metal object floating above the center of the cracked table. The only girl of the group, tall and gangly,…
read moreGuardian
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Zero hour is struck on an instrument of time beyond the grasp of mortal men. Above the sky over the northern pole of the earth, a great creature slowly shakes off the remnants of a rather lengthy slumber. Eight bristling legs unfold…
read moreNext of Kin
Author : Ashley Bonkajo The old woman had not been seen for quite a while. Nor was it unusual for a person to not be seen for months at a time. Robot or (for the very wealthy) android assistants handled the details of day to day life. The old woman had not answered…
read moreRenegotiations
Author : Benjamin Fischer Basajaun sighed and rubbed the sweat from under his eyes. A shadow had fallen across reflected rays of his private sun. “What is it you want?†he asked, blinking and groggy. The shade resolved itself into the slim image of a woman…
read moreNecessary Fictions
Author : John Mierau “Mr. Jerome?” Pen and thoughts still pressed to the page, the writer looked up: a tall man in an old-fashioned suit weaved his way through the happy hour crowd. “David Jerome. It’s really you!” Another fan? God, why can’t people be happy with the…
read moreThreshold
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer The big bike tugged at his gloves, pleading for the roll of the wrist that would send the 6 cylinders into a frenzy of combustion and release. Patience. He eased out of the garage, coasting down the parking ramp onto the drive before…
read moreThe Career of a Psychic
Author : J.R.Blackwell, Staff Writer The recruiter says that you are a dumbass. He tells you he wouldn’t put you in the infantry for the eighteen worlds, because you would get someone shot. Later you learn this is the worst insult he could give. The recruiter tells…
read moreEinstein’s Last Words
Author : J. S. Kachelries I walked into the offices of Temporal Travel Inc. A bored agent three rows back motioned me toward him with his free hand, as he peered around his upturned coffee cup. “Good morning, Sir.†he said as he placed the empty coffee cup…
read moreAlternate 7816JS
Author : Joshua Reynolds Dinosaurs thundered through a post-industrial city on their way to work. Suits and ties. Briefcases built to fit thick, knobby talons. The stink of mammal bacon on the breath of some, boiled plant on others. Pollution choking the air and…
read moreThe Last Beautiful Thing
Author : D. Magliola Ron was sprawled on a park bench. His dirty hands were tucked into the kangaroo pouch of his salvaged Nike hoodie. He exhaled a cloud of vapor and wheezed with his next breath. A single tear ran down his cheek and was absorbed in the dust mask…
read moreSky Marshal
Author : Phill Arng It was wet work, being in the Sky Platoon. Yawning decades hunched in the basket of those primitive balloons with nothing for company but the clouds and the telescopes for watching all our friends below. Time moved differently in the chronosphere…
read moreSpace Walk
Author : Duncan Shields The helmet amplifies my own breathing and makes me feel uncomfortably confined. It’s like when you can hear yourself chewing and it sounds so noisy because of the bone conduction going on with the sound but outside of your head its fine….
read moreOne Step Forward…
Author : Michael Shreeves The call had gone out, and they came. Across land, sea, air, hundreds of miles, they came, three million all told. No one in United Dissent could afford to miss an opportunity like this. Still, especially with a pig like Beauregard being…
read moreStronghold
Author : Kenny R. Brown A very sweaty, very fat man with a rifle paces back and forth at the top of the wall. He is guarding the only entrance, but he is more for effect than for any real purpose. An entire army would be unable to break down these doors. Made of an…
read moreEternal Life
Author : Patrick Supple At the peak of the technological firestorm of the mid-21st century, few would have forecast a second Dark Age. The advance of dogma started with the unification of the world’s major religions into an evangelical philosophy in the 2050s. Many…
read moreClarity
Author : S. ‘Hrekka’ Clough “So what are you?” “I told you. A meme.” She pronounced it like ‘theme’. “A memeplex, to be precise. A self-propagating collection of ideas and concepts. A unit of culture, my dear.” “I don’t quite understand.” “Let me give you an analogy,”…
read moreFootnote to War
Author : Graham T. Swanson Move. Somewhere inside the soldier’s brain, a neuron crackled and died sending a signal to a limb incapable of receiving, or doing anything about it had it actually done so. He had long ago lost all link or power to the armor’s…
read moreTechnical Knockout
Author : Stin Final round. Just don’t get knocked out. Just keep on your feet. You can do this, you need to do this. You need this win. CRACK! He’s too fast. I can barely touch him. It’s not fair, they shouldn’t be allowed to fight like this, they have too…
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