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Circadian Arrhythmia

By Stephen R. Smith | September 18, 2009
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer This is the first time I've been awake in... I don't know. Months? Years? The sentence they gave me was a twenty year stint in this meat locker. There's nobody around to tell me how far in I am. The air in here is brutally stale; heavy ...
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Crime Scene

By Duncan Shields | September 17, 2009
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer It’s late. I’m smoking a cigarette in the ruins of a burned-down orphanage. I’m standing in what used to be a room full of cradles. The scorched floor is cluttered with little black bones and black charcoal cribs. It’s all I can do to ...
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Please Pick Up Your Bread Crumbs

By submission | September 16, 2009
Author : J.E. Moskowitz An explanation of Manna “And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is Manna: ...
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Sins of our Fathers

By submission | September 15, 2009
Author : Helstrom

Dear Lucas,

By the time you read this, you will probably already have noticed that a number of your home appliances no longer function. In fact you may well have overslept as a result. I know how you are before you get your first coffee, so in case you ...

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God Huntress

By submission | September 14, 2009
Author : Nitz She woke up from her nap damp all over. The sky was grey with clouds and the air stayed still, heating up the city. After she felt a sweat drop rolling from her chin to her breastbone she decided to take a cold shower. Refreshed by the water she dressed with ...
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The Accident

By submission | September 13, 2009
Author : Iva K. When you start your career in time traveling they tell you it’s safe. They tell you there’s only a one in thirteen billion chance of getting into “The Accident” and that fixing such a problem is usually easy. You can call it simply a collision of time fibers ...
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Instructions

By submission | September 12, 2009
Author : Andrew Hawkins ... 34. Spray yourself with the scent neutraliser. 35. Move west through the woods towards the royal enclosure, being aware of your surroundings. 36. Remove knife from sheath, remember to dust thoroughly with charcoal powder in your belt pouch to ...
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Skyfarm

By submission | September 11, 2009
Author : Martha Katzeff They came riding into the City. Some in cars, some in rusted tractors from another era. Some looked up at the greenhouses glinting in the sunlight. Others stared straight ahead, refusing to acknowledge the life above. Shorter buildings allowed a full ...
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Ask Not For Whom…

By submission | September 10, 2009
Author : Q. B. Fox Subject: No man is an island. From: ISowending@EarnestPeople.com Dear Robert, I know that’s not your name. They call me Jane. That’s not my name. Does that remind you of something? If you’d rather, you can call me Maria; because some things we can’t ...
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Fireflies in a Jar

By submission | September 9, 2009
Author : Jennifer C. Brown aka Laieanna One, two, three fireflies into the jar. Just like that, all at once. Probably some kind of pact. I check the remains. Two girls, one boy, none over eighteen. Nobody brings anything to the jar except the young. They don’t plan, ...
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The Caverns of Alpha Doore

By Patricia Stewart | September 8, 2009
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer Alpha Doore is a Mars size planet orbiting an orange-red main sequence dwarf star called BD+56 2966 in the Constellation Cassiopeia. The oxygen and water rich world had several large continents and a flourishing ecosystem. The ...
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In Accordance With Prophesy

By submission | September 7, 2009
Author : Steven Odhner Gerald Forsythe was still too weak to move, his mind still partially asleep, but he knew the walls didn't look how they should. Ever so slowly he was able to take in bits of information in an attempt to solve this riddle. The walls were flat. Good. ...
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The Factory

By submission | September 6, 2009
Author : Bill Owens Shift change is a slow-motion affair. Everything is. They lost the ability to move quickly a long time ago. He's patient; no sense getting uptight, it only hurts him - they don't care. They lost that ability too. The last spot on the line is filled again, ...
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while (bDarwin) {

By submission | September 5, 2009
Author : Q. B. Fox “Are you suggesting it’s alive?” Calvin was incredulous. “Of course it’s not alive,” Mary was withering. “It’s a computer program.” “Strictly speaking,” Glen interrupted, “It’s a suite of software.” They both glared at him and he fell silent again with a ...
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Growing Pains

By Duncan Shields | September 4, 2009
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer We lived in a tribe outside the main disc. The arm struts of the cogshield branched out above us like a gear. Where we lived was all angles. It had been this way ever since our creation. My little one was sick. I’d built him according ...
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Resourceful

By submission | September 3, 2009
Author : Steven Odhner

Come closer to the monument, child. Do not be afraid. You have done well to make it all the way here - I know the journey from your village is hard. Your brother had to turn back the first time, and your mother arrived with an injured ankle and had to wait ...

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Alex

By submission | September 2, 2009
Author : Daniel Bensen Alex This has been a humbling experience. I can admit now that I was a little arrogant. I suppose I had reason to be. I was—I suppose I still am—the best mathematician on Earth. Funny. I know I should have expected this. But then, most of us ...
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Sky

By submission | September 1, 2009
Author : Michael Varian Daly Junior Lieutenant Menat Borsa, Space Force Marines, had the Third Watch on Barracks Platform 2/26 [2nd Regt/26th Batt] because, bluntly put, she was a 'noob', barely four months out of the Academy. And she was fine with that Tradition from 'beyond ...
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