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Visits

By Duncan Shields | January 12, 2009
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer I’m no stranger to visits from my future selves. The first time I showed up to myself, I was only nineteen. I was in the backyard, smoking a cigarette with my hand cupped so that my parents wouldn’t see. An older version of me stepped ...
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Stillness

By submission | January 11, 2009
Author : Carter Lee My world is motionless. I remember making cuts in my forearm, back near the beginning. The skin would separate, but blood wouldn’t flow. As soon as I looked away from the almost invisible incision, it would disappear. I remember cutting off a finger, ...
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A Waste of Time

By submission | January 10, 2009
Author : Jason Kocemba The time train was late. His great(x5) Grandfather's birth certificate felt massive in his pocket, a nano-singularity. Did that flimsy piece of paper (wood based!) really cause him to lean to the left? They had caught up and were closing in and the ...
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Virus

By submission | January 9, 2009
Author : Matthew Forish I stood there fighting back tears, her hand held in mine, separated only by the rubber surgical gloves I was wearing. They were a perfect match for the rubber smock that covered the rest of my body, and the rubber cover over my hair. That was all for ...
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Assignment #0110110

By submission | January 8, 2009
Author : Asher Wismer First came the wind. Rushing out of the east, searingly hot, almost hurricane force, the wind taking my breath away and the rough smack of dust and grit peppering my skin. Next came the shockwave. If the wind was a slap, the shockwave was a solid punch, ...
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Trench Warfare

By Stephen R. Smith | January 7, 2009
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer When Lieutenant Parks and a lone Private lifted off from the rooftop in the only available escape vehicle, they were painfully aware that they were leaving behind a vastly outnumbered platoon of men engaged in a firefight for their very ...
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Contractual Obligations

By Sam Clough | January 6, 2009
Author : Sam Clough, Staff Writer I'm just a golem: made of flesh rather than clay, but still propelled along by the words in my head and the fire in my eyes. Under my skull is no clay tablet or ancient scroll, though: break me apart and you wouldn't catch a glimpse of the ...
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What My Granddad Told Me About The Martians

By submission | January 5, 2009
Author : David Rees-Thomas Back in 1938 before we had to move again I remember we would often go to my Granddads house for tea. He lived in a small cottage on the outskirts of our village with his dogs, a blind Jack Russell and a very old Yorkshire terrier with 3 legs. I was ...
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Triton

By Patricia Stewart | January 4, 2009
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer A few hours after the Neptune Explorer achieved orbit around the solar system’s most distant planet, it detected very faint radio signals from Neptune’s largest moon, Triton. The signal was a repeating series of pulses: ...
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Baldy

By Duncan Shields | January 3, 2009
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer It was 1856. I remember it like it was yesterday even though so many of my other memories have gone. It looked like he had fallen out of the clouds judging by the sheared treetops that led to his crippled metal sky wagon. I say ‘he’ but ...
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Dawn

By submission | January 2, 2009
Author : Steven Holland Jaden Stanitski throttled the space rover to full power. The soft treads of the vehicle crunched over the rough, sun baked surface of Planet Merco II. He avoided the craters and deep crevices of the planet’s surface as best he could. The sack ...
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Renew

By Stephen R. Smith | January 1, 2009
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer The pig carcass filled most of the stainless tub where the delivery men had laid it. Freshly slaughtered, but not butchered, it had taken four of them to lift it there. None of them spoke to Rinnovi, only pausing for him to sign for the ...
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The Robot Whisperer

By submission | December 31, 2008
Author : Brian C. Baer Robots love me. As much as robots can love. And in a plutonic sense, of course. Something about my chubby little baby face sets off their simulated paternal instincts and they all bend over backwards to answer my questions. That sort of thing comes ...
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Vacuum Fluctuations

By submission | December 30, 2008
Author : Glenn Blakeslee Stan and I sat by the campfire in the desert night. The fire was burning low, a bed of embers surrounded by fire-blackened stones. We sipped on our beers, and I waited for Stan to start talking. He's one of my oldest friends, a physicist and a ...
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House Hunting

By submission | December 29, 2008
Author : Greg R. Fishbone Agent Stanley, six-time salesman of the month, cut a trail through the switch grass with his machete. His motions were effortless, hardly distracting from his practiced patter about low interest financing. Behind him trudged the Forrester family. ...
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Molly

By submission | December 28, 2008
Author : Lander Ver Hoef We get the window seat, Molly! Isn't that neat? We'll be able to see everything. Have you ever been to space before, Molly? Me neither. I wonder what it'll be like. I hope I don't get Z-sick. No, Molly, I don't know what that machine out there does. ...
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Divine Revelation

By submission | December 27, 2008
Author : Rob Burton Within the holiest temple, buried deep within the cathedral, Arch-Bishop Emmanuel Berret struck the Bios Chime above the altar of power. The bell released its singular soft tone to bounce crazily between the hard walls. Terrified that his failing hearing ...
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Mary Sue

By submission | December 26, 2008
Author : William Tracy The heroine was surrounded by towering aliens. Their gleaming carapaces reflected her shapely body, a flowing robe hugging her curves. Their glittering, faceted eyes took in the sight of her hands clutching the gash that revealed the ample curve of her ...
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