2020 Hindsight
Author : Sean Austin Murphy I was 19 when I first heard them. I thought I was crazy. They assured me I was not. I told my family. My family agreed I was crazy. I went to the doctors. The doctors gave me pills. The pills donโt work. They said they were from the future. ...
The Great Leap Ahead
Author : Matt Matlo Jeremy Davenport awoke in an apple orchard outside Somerville, Massachusetts, sometime in June, 12,459 A.D.. Back in the 2200's, some genius invented the temportation machine. They used it to see into the future, and then, before anyone asked if they ...
Ergo Sum
Author : Scott Angus Morrison There is a small metal ball on the table before me. An object at rest shall remain at rest. I touch it. It rolls away from me. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It rolls until it reaches the edge of the smooth white ...
Turistas
Author : Make Penmarche โIsnโt it just lovely, Jenm?โ Mary pulled her sunhat off and tossed her hair in the sea breeze. โItโs nothing like home!โ โJim. Itโs Jim.โ He glanced at her, then turned back to watching the crowd. โKeep slipping up like that, and someone will hear ...
First Stop
Author : N. Thomas Parshall The world blinked and Martin found himself surrounded by a wide plaza filled with people in odd clothing. Time travel to the future worked and Martin had discovered it. Seventeen years of work, and now Iโm standing one-hundred years in my own ...
Intra Machina Sine Deus
Author : Martin Berka Nothing about hell could be pleasant, and that included departure, but joy matched pain. Slowly, my consciousness was drifting through the wires. A thought or a memory would drift away from the others, accelerating, then slowing. More would follow, and ...
The Worst Part
Author : J.D. Rice I twist my ankle as I land in the ditch. Mud spatters over my uniform, filthy water pooling in my socks. I ignore the stench, the reek of the jungle, the pain stabbing up my leg, and press on. If I can only make it another ten minutes, Iโll be free. Ten ...
Caveat Emptor
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer Viisas signaled the plaintiff that it was ready to receive its opening statement. โYour Honor,โ transmitted Rotalutsop, โReus sold me a planet that is completely unusable, and I want a full refund.โ Viisas processed the opening ...
Kulbit Blindness
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Nicola pushed the throttle further forward, feeling the massive airframe surge as he tripled the speed of sound. "There are now eight aircraft in pursuit, finger four formations, over under," Sev, the aircraft's control system, broke the ...
Time To Think
Author : Clint Wilson It always felt lonely when the ship sailed off to tow more rocks. After all, being the only companions for eighteen light-years Jim didnโt want to see them wander too far. But somebody had to stay here in the processor and make sure things ran smoothly. ...
C is for Light
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer She was giving me a lecture and I didnโt like it. However she was the captain so I listened. โIf you go any faster than 2C, you start to travel backwards as you travel forwards. You get to your destination before you leave. That is ...
Transit
Author : Julian Miles We met at a parts fair. We simultaneously laid hands on opposite ends of an Emptor storage array. She smiled and brandished a handful of gigaflex at me. "Mine." She said. In one of those moments of prescient genius, I replied "Ours." It started for ...
The Weaknesses of Revision
Author : Brian Bartolomeo Apparently I have a face that invites unsolicited advice. โAre you even listening to me now?โ my brother asked from the driverโs seat of his semi-classic car. โArenโt you supposed to be a genius or something? What you need to do is to get a job that ...
Staples of Life
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Staff Writer They watched him through a one way mirror. He sat in a corner of the room in a pool of his own excrement, legs pulled up to his chest, arms tightly wrapped around his knees. What was left of his clothing had been reduced to little more ...
Leisure and Medication
Author : Cael Majin There was a spider on his ceiling. It hadnโt moved for as long as heโd been staring at it, which wasโฆ probably an hour now. Maybe two. He wasnโt knowledgeable in the acclimate taste of arachnidkindโwere there brown recluses in this area? Thereโd been ...
The Cupboard Was Bare
Author : Cesium When the food ran out, we all responded differently. The Cythalans engineered themselves into cold-blooded pygmies, with slow perception and quiet metabolism, tending their meager crops with careful patience. They lay on the hills and watched the sun wheel ...
Outsmarted
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer Raising a pair of binoculars to his eyes, Captain Anderson peered out the warehouse window toward City Hall. โAny indication that our snipers have spotted Baskan?โ โI am no longer receiving telemetry from Cooper,โ replied the android, ...
The Djinn Effect
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer The boss was drunk and telling me a story. I didnโt mind. These long-range voyages could be boring and it was my first one. โIt had been noticed for centuries that accidents on the longer-range ships increased over time. It had always ...
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