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Buying Out

By submission | April 25, 2009
Author : Ryan Somma Kheen stared out the window of his top-floor corner office, completely oblivious to the hustle and bustle of his city stretching off into the horizon below. Planes, spacecraft, gliders, unicorns, and more were cruising right past his window, citizens ...
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Karachi, America

By submission | April 24, 2009
Author : Joshua Willey Every morning a giant Seller’s Jay lands on the railing and sings until given some caloric morsel. The fog shifts constantly, burying the trees. I choke my dirt bike, kick it, and we’re off, down empty trails, to an empty highway along the empty ...
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Teleportation

By Patricia Stewart | April 23, 2009
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer Tom Erickson smiled as he greeted his guest, “Ah, General Kelly, welcome to the Ames Advanced Research Laboratory. This is my partner, Dr. Mark Montgomery.” They all shook hands. Erickson continued, “Are you ready for the dog and ...
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Seeing Clearly

By submission | April 22, 2009
Author : Carter Lee Everyone can see me. I can’t see them, of course, but I can tell by the way that they shy away from me on the street and in stores. Their grey, featureless forms flinch, and drift away from me. No matter how crowded the area might be, I always have room to ...
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The Birth Mother and the Whole Living Child

By J.R. Blackwell | April 21, 2009
Author : J.R. Blackwell, Staff Writer We drank poison to prove that we were real. My mother fed me the poison herself, holding me in six of her twelve arms, cooing to me while I sipped the foul liquid. She had fed me things I thought were awful before, but I was obedient - ...
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Kiln

By Duncan Shields | April 20, 2009
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer I weigh six tons and my back is on fire. I’m treading slowly through the hot bowl of what used to Los Angeles. Walking on these streets brings back a memory. I remember walking on a thick crust of snow in the winter as a child. I ...
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Rise and Shine

By submission | April 19, 2009
Author : Debbie Mac Rory My heartbeat is sluggish. My breathing is equally slow. My eyes, when they blink, take an eternity to open and on the other side of the glass, people appear and move as blurs and streaks of colour. Panic struggles to rise as the primitive parts of my ...
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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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