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Black Flag

By submission | July 11, 2007
Author : Benjamin Fischer

“This is your final test,” said Captain Fang.

Bai sucked in a breath, the entirety of his vision replaced by the externals of the Nanking. The sun somewhere behind him, he looked down on a field of stars smeared with the broken viscera of a ...

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The Last Panhandler

By submission | July 10, 2007
Author : Liz Shannon Miller The last panhandler to go digital isn't the last panhandler. One man left behind, and that man is Stinkpot Pink, great orator of the Ravenwood line, the Prophet of the El.

Stinkpot Pink has only one arm, so carrying the charger, for him, is an ...

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Left Behind

By submission | July 9, 2007
Author : Grady Hendrix It was the most virulent pandemic the world had ever seen. An airborne virus raging in fast-forward across the planet. Exposed humans experiencing hyper-dehydration, mummifying in seconds. It burnt itself out in 12 hours, right before the 6000 employees of the ...
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Battle of the Bots

By submission | July 8, 2007
Author : Nikolle Doolin The Nanorobotic Medical Series Ten was the crème de la crème of nanotechnology. Unlike their predecessors, they worked quickly and efficiently inside the human body, and became the least invasive and toxic of all diagnostic and surgical methods known to ...
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Farm Raised

By submission | July 7, 2007
Author : TJMoore We are the children of Earth; or so my great grand daddy tells me. He wasn't on the ship but he says his great grand daddy was. I don't know where Earth is or why it's important, but that's what they tell me.

The seed ship memorial is all we have left of our past. ...

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Sick Ideas

By B. York | July 6, 2007
Author : B.York, Staff Writer Julian rubbed his forehead in abject frustration as he glanced over the reports from the scientists crowded around him at his conference table. From what he was reading, Julian knew history would have to be re-written and that the Universal Human ...
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Do You Remember?

By J.R. Blackwell | July 5, 2007
Author : J.R.Blackwell, Staff Writer Do you remember when I bought that old theater, sold my house and lived in the basement with the rats and the roaches and the scuttling things that I couldn’t identify? Do you remember before I got too bitter to kill those things, when I let them ...
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Into Darkness

By Stephen R. Smith | July 4, 2007
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Letchen moved slowly but steadily through the dense jungle. In his right hand spun a blade, broad, flat and wickedly sharp, tethered by a length of cable. Even though the modified nunchaku cleared a wide path through which to walk, the more violent ...
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Next Season's Hottest Flavor

By Kathy Kachelries | July 3, 2007
Author : Kathy Kachelries, Staff Writer Nine days after receiving the transmission from Claudia, Jisuk found himself sitting in a corner booth at the Leaping Cow pub, grateful that the iciness of his beer disguised its stagnant taste. It wasn't hard to keep something cold on Luna ...
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Good Money

By J. Loseth | July 2, 2007
Author : J.Loseth, Staff Writer It was good money. Everyone said so, on the newscasts and the Internet, repeating the slogan from the billboards: Everyone's Rich in the Colonies. Drake had read over the contract, and the money was indeed good. The wealth in the colonies was so ...
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Plan B

By submission | July 1, 2007
Author : Duncan Shields

Shane jerked awake at his desk with a look of horror on his face.

It was late at the laboratory. He’d been going over calibrations on the atmosphere processing equipment prototypes that he’d designed. There was full funding for NASA and ...

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

By submission | June 30, 2007
Author : J. S. Kachelries

“Objection, your honor; asked and answered,” stated the defense attorney.

“Sustained,” replied the judge. Then addressing the plaintiff’s attorney, “Move on, counselor.”

“Your honor,” he protested, “the ...

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Ashes to Ashes

By submission | June 29, 2007
Author : Debbie Mac Rory

The high preacher approached the lone figure at the front of the hall of remembrances. He passed gases through his membranes in such a manner, that if he were human, would have been called a polite cough. The particle entity turned it’s ...

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The Trifid Nebula

By featured writer | June 28, 2007
Author : Patricia Stewart, featured writer

The UES Celeste coasted into the outskirts of the Trifid Nebula, and pulled alongside two stationary vessels that were tethered to each other. Captain Briggs studied the view screen suspiciously. “Well chief, what do you make ...

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Koshka

By submission | June 27, 2007
Author : Viktor Kuprin

“This is the last call for evacuation. Everyone must leave. Go to the park for water, food, and medical care. If you cannot move, call out or make a noise, and we will help you.”

Spaceman Kuzmin tried not to look at the bloated red sun as ...

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A Modern Girl

By submission | June 26, 2007
Author : James Smith

Murphy took a bench and pulled a paperback from his coat pocket. He dialed down his shades to read better, and sipped his coffee. After a few pages, he became aware of a presence on the bench next to him.

"Oh, wow. Paper. You drive gas, too, ...

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Solving the Stealth Problem

By featured writer | June 25, 2007
Author : Patricia Stewart, featured writer

“Hey boss, can you come down to the lab? Ah, the prototype has disappeared.”

“It’s supposed to, you idiot. That’s what stealth technology does.”

“Sorry, sir, I didn’t mean to say it disappeared. I ...

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Failed Mission

By submission | June 24, 2007
Author : Francesco Navarro

The air scrubbers were failing. Generators were running at less than fifteen percent. Only one large bio dome and four of the sixty life support shelters remained of the mission complex.

Father Nandres died a week ago and there was no one left who ...

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