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aka. Daniel

By submission | April 18, 2009
Author : Helstrom 'The People versus Serial 0815 aka. Daniel' – even the citation had been an issue of furious debate. The inclusion of the AI's given name was seen as some tacit acknowledgement of an identity, whereas that was exactly the question before the Supreme Court. ...
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One Sound's the Loneliest Colour

By Stephen R. Smith | April 17, 2009
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Caroline walked the long way down from the bluffs, down the winding dirt road and out into the farm fields. To her right the abandoned silo - silent silhouette against the moonlit sky. Impotent concrete rocket reaching skyward, never to ...
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Fool’s Life?

By Patricia Stewart | April 16, 2009
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer Captain Alais Tonk contemplated the house sized asteroid floating a short distance beyond the forward viewport. Its surface was covered with long, slender green filaments that swayed gently in the weak electromagnetic field of the ...
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The Book

By submission | April 15, 2009
Author : Tim Hatton Judith switched her headlights on and checked the rearview. Deep brown hair slid around her shoulder as she turned to the right, looking down the street while the floating panel above the intersection flipped green. She touched a few small switches in ...
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Our Own Desire

By J.R. Blackwell | April 14, 2009
Author : J.R. Blackwell, Staff Writer On my second day on their planet, my amiable host offered to take me to observe Lo’kari erotica. Although I might normally turn down such an offer, for you, dear listeners, readers, and observers, I have taken it upon myself to experience ...
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Decomposition

By Duncan Shields | April 13, 2009
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer I can feel the sickness ripping open bonds between my cells as I fumble the bullet out of the ammo box. It’s a sickeningly pleasant sensation. The sneaky thing about the virus is that it steps on your endorphin throttle pretty hard as ...
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Temp Agency

By submission | April 12, 2009
Author : Paul Starkey The ad said; “I’m rich, you can be too! Call to find out how!” Frankly it was the sort of ad you see in the papers every week, and you always laugh at the idiots who reply. At least I used to, but the recession was pinching, and my redundancy pay was ...
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The Shielded

By submission | April 11, 2009
Author : Christina Kern I don't like to think of it as "running". No, let's call it "traveling with the intent of avoiding a specific party". What you call it doesn't matter, I guess. What does matter is that the Abunari have tracked me through six states up and down the ...
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Lost Outpost

By submission | April 10, 2009
Author : Suzanne Borchers Agnes glanced up at the tiny yellow dot that hardly pierced the vacuum of black sky. She crouched over in her threadbare spacesuit touching Carl as their gloved hands picked through the rubbish pile. Her stomach fed upon itself, while her eyes ...
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Tabula Rasa

By submission | April 9, 2009
Author : Daedalus I look around, one last time, at the empty apartment and the packed bags. One last time? Nicholas Jameson will see those old, beat-up duffels often, but I can't think of him as being me. As being real. It isn't my new face I see in the mirror, courtesy of ...
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Love Sounds

By Stephen R. Smith | April 8, 2009
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer "Mama?" A tiny voice slipped quietly through the room. Between her and the woman in the bed an impenetrable forest of metal stands, tubes and blinking machinery stood guard. "Come in sweetheart, it's alright." Her mother's voice warmed the ...
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Apotheosis

By submission | April 7, 2009
Author : Gwen Harper The math, of course, came first. It took a while, nearly forty years, for the technology to catch up to the possibilities in her set of equations. They said it was impossible, the body of those who considered themselves enlightened thought. Even if ...
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Computerwood

By Patricia Stewart | April 6, 2009
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer “Quite frankly,” said Stuart Whitley, the Director of Operations at Computerwood, “I am not pleased with this vendetta that you’ve launched against our movies. We are clearly producing products that the public wants to see.” “The ...
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Go Northeast

By submission | April 5, 2009
Author : Imran Nazar He found himself waking up in a field. There was nothing unusual about that; he'd camped up in fields many times during his travels. Something was different this morning, though. For one thing, he could feel the wind over his face, and that meant he was ...
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Sorry About the Apocalypse!

By submission | April 4, 2009
Author : Trevor Foley Dear Miss March, I’ve read pamphlets: “88 Reasons the World Will End in 1988”, “Give ‘Em Hell in 2012”, and my favorite “Apocalypse is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose”. I proved the world’s going to end next month: Your month. I’m writing, ...
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Erosion

By submission | April 3, 2009
Author : Steven Odhner Entropy gnaws at the walls, shaving them away molecule by molecule. Jeremy calls it the Nothing, after some story that never existed anymore. It’s as good a name as any - certainly I’m not being scientific when I call it Entropy. "The Nothing is hungry ...
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Airport Security

By Duncan Shields | April 2, 2009
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer I’ve rented my persona out to a smuggler. I’m a chip in the back of his head. I'm a soldier that died a while ago and I’m making a few dollars post-mortem by being an emergency safeguard for morally dubious people. I’m riding in his ...
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Body-Death

By J.R. Blackwell | April 1, 2009
Author : J.R. Blackwell, Staff Writer Was it the crisp hard skin of an apple that hurt her teeth? The texture of sand beneath her feet, soft in summer and rough when bound with winter ice? Or was it the smell of autumn, all bones and fire? I lost my mother to these things; ...
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