Raining Cellos
Anton set the hypernav coords to just beyond the rim of debris.
"Aren't we cutting it a bit close, Captain?" a thick gravelly voice came from behind him. Silverlo, whose face was a mess of scars, wrinkles and facial hair, frowned at him. ...
Smoke 'em if you got 'em, Gene
Jack pulled a SimStik out of its small plastic container and placed it between his lips. Alice cleared her throat and looked at him through drunk eyes and a patch of blonde, wind blown hair.
“Sorry,†he mumbled, the SimStik bobbing up and down as he ...
Liberty
The Shore Patrol has to ring three times before she comes to.
“Ma’am, we would prefer to not break down the door,†one is saying. “Please open it now, ma’am.â€
Groggy and maybe still drunk, she paws at the suite’s ...
Stealth
Finnegan Sue
Finnegan Sue was a pit fighter.
She wrapped leather around her knuckles, mindful of her nails, and ran her sharpened tongue around her poisonous needled mouth. She sung a tune while she prepped. Her horrible lisp made a mockery of the ...
Arrivals Lounge
The finest moment of my whole life was when I stepped off that ship. When we finally found each other in the arrivals lounge, her utterly uncomplicated joy was mirrored by my own. Two friends since forever, separated by years of space travel. There was no ...
Jupiter's Lightning
Nothing but killers. They came screaming soundlessly out of the Oort and Mercury Station was gone. My wife swallowed a handful of pills when the remains of Venus fell across the Moon.
The Dyson sphere lays empty, reconfigured into an enormous laser. I ...
Adoption
The first thing Vinka noticed were the trees, (Bula was late…why was she always late?) the ground was dirty too; some places nothing but bare earth or a covering of ragged grass. That couldn’t be healthy, could it? These pathetic people.
Vinka ...
Systema Metropolis
Sol-DOT
Green Moon
The place reeks of green beans.
I hate the feel of the floor underneath my bare feet. It’s made of ivy and soft branches.
I’m not from around here.
I usually work the corporate zealots on the rim. All they know is credit ...
Third Viola in Paris
Inhuman
Love - with all its pain and all its wonder – is the human condition. We are slaves to it and truly, above all other creatures, masters of it. When we know love we feel alive. It brings us terrible, terrible hurt but that’s okay because of the joy that ...
The Ride
“Merging down.â€
He pulled the joystick and the car started its swift descent, tugging him along like on a roller coaster. “Whooo!†he yelled, pushing the pedal down and merging onto the invisible highway at two hundred miles an hour. He ...
Decade
Sundown
The dripping residue of some poor bastard’s elbow explodes against my shoulder.
“Goo fight!†Jayav shouts, handfuls of dead man oozing through his fingers. My synthskin registers the contact with unstable biomaterial and sterilizes my left arm. ...
A Thin Slice of the Moon
The thin slice of the moon slipped past her window frame, into the night sky waiting for it.
There were people there on the moon, they told her, although some days she doubted their stories. Her parents told her many things – that human beings had ...
Ravaged Angel
The Ravaged Angel.
That’s what was painted in red nail polish on the nose of the three-person cryshuttle. It had docked on autopilot with good codes but wasn’t answering hails. The dock’s computer was talking to the shuttle’s ...
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