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The Bolide Brothers

By submission | February 12, 2009
Author : Glenn Blakeslee Outside Dad's shop stood a steel one-hundred-twenty foot tall hyperboloid structure. My brother had his eye on it. They say Delvin is a genius but he's just my big brother. He's weird, and skinny with piercings and tats. When he's not making stuff ...
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Misunderstandings

By Patricia Stewart | February 11, 2009
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer It began as a simple misunderstanding. The Liturgians were a social-insectoid race. When they negotiated with a graduate student from Cal-Arts, they assumed that she spoke for the entire huwoman hive. The concept of individuality was ...
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Stormbringer

By Duncan Shields | February 10, 2009
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer Glass goes green when it gets to a certain thickness. The impurities gang up. It's a great insulator. It's why my entire suit of armour is made of it. I have grill slits and air-holes drilled into the faceplate. The armour weighs close ...
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The Fragile Y

By submission | February 9, 2009
Author : Terri Monture The funeral cortege rolled smoothly down the boulevard, the faces of the witnessing crowd somber and drawn in the grey light. It had stopped raining but was damp and cold. Amanda shivered and pulled Sylvia and Clarice closer into her body. “Mama, what ...
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The Hunt

By submission | February 8, 2009
Author : Waldo van der Waal The sound of an old-fashioned bugle in his aural signaled the start of the hunt. On cue, the chem depositors in his spine fired a burst of adrenaline. His face flushed from the drug and a mad grin spread across his features. He glanced across at ...
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Perforce Performance

By submission | February 7, 2009
Author : Adam Zabell In the darkness of my private soul, I still can’t believe I get away with it. In the light of my studio, I focus on titles. Honestly, the title is usually the hard part. “SunderS” was brutal and well-received, but too abstract for my personal tastes. ...
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The Blue Weed

By submission | February 6, 2009
Author : George Galuschak The end of the world: we expected mad cows, Y2K, global warming, asteroids, nukes, tidal waves, flu-stricken chickens and angels descending from Starship Christ. What we got was The Blue Weed. We don’t know the delivery method – meteor strike, ...
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Version 5.10

By submission | February 5, 2009
Author : John Logan Drill Sergeant Harvey K. Buicks watched the line of soldiers as they stood taut and strong. Their backs concave, chests out, muscles rippling. He turned to a small man in a white lab coat who twitched nervously next to him. “Things were good until about a ...
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The Peacock's Tail

By submission | February 4, 2009
Author : Ryan Somma "Watch this," Alea smirked at Trin and turned to the four-legged creature dumbly munching on some flamegrass nearby. "Oti," Alea chirped to the thing, and a few dozen eyes opened to look at her. "Oti, what is pi?" A half-dozen orifices sprinkled amidst ...
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Dead Man Breathing

By Sam Clough | February 3, 2009
Author : S. Clough, Staff Writer "Tash, stop right there." Kal barked, raising his rifle, and aiming it squarely at his team-mate. Tash froze, and lifted her hands. She'd known this was coming, but it always caught her off-guard. The rest of the team had gone back to the ...
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Monday

By submission | February 2, 2009
Author : Hilary B. Bisenieks The last time I saw the surface of the moon, it was pristine save for a few sets of footprints. I had been struck dumb at the majesty of the black—an eternity of stars from horizon to horizon—while the others filled my ears with the chatter of ...
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Caught

By Duncan Shields | February 1, 2009
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer Caught. I’m stuck to this wall with thick maglets encasing my glowing hands. My eyes are weeping constantly and I can’t stop my long tongue from flopping down to my chest and tracing lazy circles in the sweat-matted hair there. It’s so ...
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Engaged

By Stephen R. Smith | January 31, 2009
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Revy leaned heavy against the bathroom sink, his reflection in the streaked mirror staring back battered and bruised. Stitches poked through pink flesh behind his jaw and beneath his hairline, bloodshot eyes sunken and dark. How long since ...
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Black Space

By Patricia Stewart | January 30, 2009
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer The Deep Space Explorer held its position one kilometer from the anomaly. “What do you make of it, Cortez,” asked the commander? “If it didn’t sound so stupid, Commander, I’d say it was a massless black hole. It’s spherical, about ...
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Worship

By submission | January 29, 2009
Author : William Tracy Eighteen thousand meters up in the sky, two aircraft dance. The larger tanker hovers above the other, and the two vehicles mate. The space plane drinks thirstily, then releases. The tanker banks to the right, leaving the space plane free to climb. It ...
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Count of Three

By submission | January 28, 2009
Author : Ivy Tyson They meet in the ruins of New York City, rather by accident, right in the middle of what used to be Times Square, back when people actually lived there. They are both armed: she with a pistol strapped to her hip, while he supports a rifle on his shoulder. ...
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Patience in a Handful of Dust

By submission | January 27, 2009
Author : James C. Clar “Shit,” Corporal Sean Collins thought out loud. “I’ve got to calm down. My oxygen will be gone in twenty minutes if I don’t. I need to stay low. If I raise my head above the dunes to take a shot, that Martian bastard will vaporize me.” Collins had ...
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Ability

By submission | January 26, 2009
Author : Ian Rennie People sometimes look at me weirdly when they first see me, and after all this time I can't really blame them that much. I'm disabled. They see me with the goggles and the earpieces and they wonder what's going on. Then they check the nets to see what ...
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