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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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Aurora

By submission | March 31, 2009
Author : Paul Bort The stars twinkled as they always had; a hint of purple in the west showed where we had missed sunset, the better part of an hour ago. But most spectacular was the Aurora Borealis, flickering, twisting, glowing in the shades of green and blue that I could ...
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Sacrifices

By submission | March 30, 2009
Author : Ian Rennie Anton opens the door with a blank face. He is worried, but can't show it any more. "How's she doing?" I ask. "Not good," Anton replies, expression neutral and voice flat, "I think she's dying." I move past him without a word. Laverne is lying in bed, ...
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You'll Never Go

By submission | March 29, 2009
Author : Claire Webber “Excuse me, miss?” he said, raising a finger to get the stewardess’ attention. “Yes, how can I help you?” she said with a smile. Her accent was faint, and a single curl poked out of her modest hijab printed with the airline’s logo. “I’d like a copy of ...
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Punishment 2100AD

By submission | March 28, 2009
Author : John Logan The metal clasps dug into my arms as they strapped me to the chair. I spat on one of the guards and called into question the loyalty of his wife. He raised his hand to strike but the other guard stopped him with a simple movement of the eyes. “Let me up,” ...
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Picture Postcard

By submission | March 27, 2009
Author : Ken McGrath The car pulled to a stop overlooking the city. “There it is kids. Dublin, where your old Dad grew up? What do you think?” “It doesn’t look like the postcard Dad,” Amy said, looking up momentarily from her computer game and at least showing some sort of ...
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Dawn

By submission | March 26, 2009
Author : Matthew Forish It was cold. Of course it was cold. Now though, I could feel the cold. Feeling returned to my body, and a faint light was starting to filter in through my closed eyelids. I was waking up. Thoughts filled my mind. I was shivering, hungry, thirsty and ...
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