Author : Sam Clough, Staff Writer Out of the inhabitants of the world, Conrad was the trend-setter. He'd sparked off the craze for playing as gods when he'd discovered a cache of ancient texts. He'd painstakingly recovered audio platters from the less senile databanks in the ...

Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer “Meteorologists, you can’t live with ‘em, and you can’t vaporize ‘em. That’s what I always say,” bellowed Jose Vargas, Prime Minister of The United Countries of Earth. The large dark skinned Brazilian reached across his antique ...

Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer “Hey baby, how are you?” I replied to the phone. I had told my wife that I had gone to Earth for business. Angela lay, limbs spread wide and gloriously naked on the bed behind me, a beatific smile on her face. We’d been hedonistically ...

Author : Rob Burton Dear Victim, I am writing to you to tell you that, in a short while, you are going to be arrested for killing the Prime Minister. You didn’t do it, right? Wrong. Here at MI6, when we want to kill someone and say that you did it, you can be sure that we’ve ...

Author : Denni schnapp Oil painted rainbows on the pavement. Franklin coughed as he dragged Chrissy behind him. "Keep your mask up," he rasped, holding his own to his mouth with his free hand. The fumes made his eyes sting. He paused, squinting. "Not--" Deep breath "Far. ...

Author : Bill Richman Bobby had always been a little different. His family felt it. So did the neighborhood children. His friends would have felt it too, if he'd had any. Of course, the other kids were quick to pick up on his oddities and use them to taunt him. He was ...

Author : Chis Sharkey The sign read: P.B. FARNSWORTH'S TRAVELLING CIRCUS PRESENTS: THE MYSTERIOUS HOVER-CAT WITNESS THIS MYSTICAL CREATURE OF GRAVITY-DEFYING MAJESTY THREE NIGHTS ONLY OCT. 5TH, 6TH, AND 8TH Special Agent Smith studied it intently. The font was, of ...

Author : B. Zedan Periodically, the pilot wished he had company. There were some things that were just more enjoyable with another being around. Besides the obvious, there was chess. The ship's helpful AI, such a benefit when it came to the obvious, just didn't cut it at ...

Author : Bill Gale Showing every one of his seventy-two years, the speaker rose to podium of the vast granite chamber. He uttered a single word – "Order". The irony of this formality did nothing for the moods of the three dozen delegates, for whom standing in hushed rooms had ...

Author : Ben 'Inorian' Le Chevalier

I’ve been a cypro for a few years now. That’s a short way of saying I have a cybernetic prosthesis. Technically, I’m a cyborg as is any human with mechanical parts, but people don’t like the word. It’s been given too many bad connotations from old ...