Most Things Do
Author: Eva C. Stein
After the service, they didn’t speak much.
They walked through the old arcade – a fragment of the city’s former network. The glass canopy had long since shattered. Bio-moss cushioned the broken frames. Vines, engineered to reclaim derelict structures, ...
The Bitter Smell of Success
Author: David C. Nutt
It was an alien invasion, not in the sense of “War of the Worlds” but more like what historians called the “British Invasion” but without the Beatles. What invaded us was close to five million overprivileged alien tourists, all here for one reason: to ...
Smoke
Author: K. Andrus
Where was the best place to murder someone and get away with it?
A question that had been fun to ponder, back when Albert had been at home accompanied by nobody else but a chilled glass of scotch, the comforting roar of a June snowstorm, and his most ...
Mourad Du
Author: Majoki
Standing among some of the oldest living things on earth, Mourad Du, felt his age. Not just in years, but in possibilities lost. And, now, the impossibility he faced. Who could he tell? Would it even matter?
They would all be gone soon. Nothing he could ...
Upon Reflection
Author: Hillary Lyon
“I’d do it in a flash,” Jason declared, tightening the lid of the cocktail shaker. “Clone you, I mean. And how about you? What would you do?” In his hands, the shaker was a percussion instrument. The rhythm was enticing; it made Kerra want to ...
Home Turf
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer
The bright lights look the same. Sitting myself down on the community server bench, I lean back until my spine hits the backrest. My gear starts charging. Diagnostics start scrolling down the inner bars of both eyes. The trick is not to ...
On a clear sky, you can see forever
Author: Lydia Cline
He had always had a quiet appreciation for blue. Not loudly, he would never be as conformist as to declare a love for, like, the number one colour for boys and men. No - he was loud in his love for green - the thinking man’s blue. And yet, as he stared ...
The Animal
Author: Emily Kinsey
“Jessie! Get over here, I think I found something!”
Annoyed, Jessie said, “You always think you found something.”
“It smells good,” I offered, hoping to entice him.
It worked, because Jessie only ever cares about his stomach. He discarded his ...
Not Heartless
Author: Stephen C. Curro
Veema peered through the glass pod at their latest subject. The human was young, perhaps eighteen years by his species’ standards. Her four eyes noted physical traits and the style of clothing. “Flannel shirt. Denim pants. Heavy boots. This one was ...
Request No. 155439
Author: Rebecca Hamlin Green
I honestly didn’t know where else to turn or if you’re even accepting these requests yourself. I hope you hear me out at least.
The day she came, she was perfect, she really was. I almost couldn’t believe it. Everything I thought I knew was, ...
A Copyright Issue
Author: David Barber
Inhabitants of Earth, (read a translation of the first signal from the stars)
Our clients wish to bring to your attention a copyright infringement with regards to your use of replicator molecules. As the dominant species on your world, we hereby inform ...
Faust Electric
Author: Fawkes Defries
Stuck out in the black sand, lodged between trunks of thin stone, Kayt lit life to her cigarette and drew the clear smoke in.
Her silicon eyes fluttered between the deactivated droid she’d excavated from the Rubble and her sister’s body lying ...
Field Combat Intervention
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer
Kinswaller reads the report with a mounting feeling of doom: another failure, this time with casualties on both sides. The appended note from the monitoring A.I. cements the feeling.
‘Have recommended Field Combat Intervention. Combat ...
Harbinger’s Arrival
Author: Orin Might
They covered the sky like the blanket of the Milky Way. From horizon to horizon, twinkling and watching, countless points of silver light in the black void of the night. They arrived in a flash, sentinels of silent defiance, ominous and horrible.
I ...
Lovely Against the Trichomes
Author: R. J. Erbacher
The wispy antennae that lined the perimeter of my mass sensed a fluctuation. I do not have traditional vision, but I can pick up changes in molecular atmospheric disruption allowing me to judge shape and movement most accurately, and what was ...
Oh, Snap!
Author: David C. Nutt
I was having trouble with my rotator cuff again. “Shouldn’t have bought that cheap snap in online sweety” the spouse says. I just grumble and nod. She’s 100% correct of course, but what’s a guy to do? The cheap part offered free same day delivery. ...
Bloodfall
Author: Francesco Levato
The end of the world was fast, like a ruptured heart, a laceration tearing ventricles apart, flooding the chest cavity with one final gout. It rained actual blood for weeks after, and muscle fiber, and an oily substance like rendered fat. In the ...
Sellout
Author: KM Brunner
Nora didn't mean to yell. She knew better than to make noise in the city. First rule of running: keep quiet.
So her question, “Where were you?!”, desperate and sharp in the stillness of the Park Street station, startled both of them. Mac winced at its ...
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