Reversed Universe
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer
Three aliens floated a few dozen meters beyond the ship’s forward observation viewport. They were formless blobs approximately two meter in diameter. The center creature was glowing a faint orange-red, with numerous concentric yellow ...
Streetmodz
Author : E.S Wynn
“The 882 looks cool.” Cylea glanced up, grinned. “How much for the 882?”
The old man gave her a quick glance, eyes wary over spectacles that stood out like antique flair garnered from a bygone age. His reply came solidly. “I can’t sell you the 882.”
“Why ...
About Time
Author : Andrew Pang
The global media sighed at NASA's attempt to laugh off trillions of dollars worth of international effort. Its called The L.O.F.T. [Lot of Floating Trash]. The Japanese first encountered it in 2011 at the Second Lagrange point, an area in space where ...
Circadian Arrhythmia
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 ...
Crime Scene
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 ...
Please Pick Up Your Bread Crumbs
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: ...
Sins of our Fathers
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 ...
God Huntress
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 ...
The Accident
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 ...
Instructions
Author : Andrew Hawkins
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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 ...
Skyfarm
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 ...
Ask Not For Whom…
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 ...
Fireflies in a Jar
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, ...
The Caverns of Alpha Doore
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 ...
In Accordance With Prophesy
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. ...
The Factory
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, ...
while (bDarwin) {
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 ...
Growing Pains
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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