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On A Runner

By submission | July 21, 2007
Author : James Smith

She started hallucinating yesterday, and now the center line floats three feet above the blacktop and glows in neon rainbows. Exhaustion makes her slippery in time, and she doesn't know if she's remembering-- or actually seeing-- the sparks she left behind on ...

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Pre-pregnant

By J.R. Blackwell | July 20, 2007
Author : J.R. Blackwell, Staff Writer "Okay girls, it's time to party!" Fran opened the door to the strip club, and held it open like a doorman while Trisha and Nancy filed in. The bouncer scanned their palms and put a glowing X-mark on the back of Nancy's hands. The marks glowed ...
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Yes, Officer

By J. Loseth | July 19, 2007
Author : J. Loseth, Staff Writer "To employment!" Skye burst into the apartment with a bottle raised, cheeks pinked. He already looked like he'd had a toast or two before coming home. Fauntleory looked up from the armchair he was draped over with a frown, then got to his feet and ...
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Aemilia

By submission | July 18, 2007
Author : Benjamin Fischer

"Last dance of the night," said Aemilia.

Under harsh floodlights in the center of the deserted dance floor, Phil the bouncer was struggling with the maintenance access latch of the misbehaving auto-buffer. He rocked the bulky machine back and forth ...

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The Immortal

By submission | July 17, 2007
Author : Jonathan Wooldridge

I finally finished converting enough of the ore to fuel for the flight home. My knee had healed almost completely from the landing, and the patch in the tank looked solid.

And he was still there, watching and asking questions.

“So you ...

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The Steps

By submission | July 16, 2007
Author : R. A. Jackson

Each step came slower now. Her back hunched so that the long grey strands of her hair trailed across the stairs as she climbed. Counting the painful strides one by one was the only way she kept up hope of reaching the end, surrounded as she was by the damp ...

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She Just Can't Be Still!

By submission | July 15, 2007
Author : Kenneth R. Harrison

She just can't be still!

Her long blond hair forever in her eyes. Hands up. Arch to the side and over. Whoops! She fell! Hands up. Arch to the side and over. There! She made it! Another cartwheel.

She just can't be still! ...

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Come Home, Come Down

By submission | July 14, 2007
Author : James Smith

When Rocky got home that morning, Victoria was sitting on the couch, wings molting, a pale, fragile bird. Rocky took a look in Victoria's eyes, took her EMT kit off her shoulder and popped it open on the floor. She pulled out a thin white tube and uncapped it. ...

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Nano Nanny

By submission | July 13, 2007
Author : Charles Musser

Welcome to Nanotron Technologies! ®

You have launched our Mental Acuity Accelerator (MAA).

Your brain is now functioning more than two million times faster than normal. These words are scrolling across your line of vision, courtesy of ...

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Star 2080

By submission | July 12, 2007
Author : Terri Monture

The glare of the klieg lights blinded Godwin as he watched the limo pull up to the edge of the red carpet and he was dazzled as the digital camera flashes started blazing. He scanned the crowd eagerly, his heart pounding with excitement. The culmination of a ...

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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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