The Great Pervasor
Paranoia
I know he’s been here. I’ve seen the signs and clues of his passing. It feels like ages since I started waiting for him to show himself. Heh – that’s almost funny, thinking about the relativity of time passing and all this time I’ve been ...
Water of Life
First Contact
“Commander’s Log, Hyper-light mission Alpha-one, Ship’s chronometer, Day 23,: Commander Adelmann reporting. The Tycho Brahe has completed another uneventful day. We are currently 7.1 light years from Earth. All systems are operating in the green. ...
Back From Outer Space
Colonists
The world did not snap back into focus for Jenna, but rather came in dribbles. The first sensation to return was the feeling of the restraining harness digging into her shoulders and pins and needles running through her extremities as the hibernation state ...
506 Kelvin
Five hundred and six degrees Kelvin is the temperature our burners need to reach. The tech boys designed them to burn at one thousand and seventy three. The operating temperature keeps going up and up: they seem to see it as a challenge. Anyway. We were heading ...
Stop
The Promise
Scentsation
Candice didn’t quite know where to put the thing in her hand.
It was small and light, delicate beyond belief and it sat in her hand quietly still and inscrutable. She didn’t really want to put it down because it was so cute and pretty.
After ...
Ice Rustlers
The annoying throb of the proximity klaxon woke the two security guards (aka, Comet Cowboys) from their mid day rest period. They drifted into the control room and floated above the sensor-generated hologram of the “herd.†The “herd†consisted of ...
Missing Persons, Case T324.93
I hate androids. Especially these high tech laboratory assistants. They’re good observers, but they can be instructed to lie. Worst of all, they can’t be intimidated or frightened into making a confession. I’ll take a human witness (or ...
The Last Experiment
Hurpes Simplex 2
Every morning she woke up to start a new millennium she felt dread. How far had it spread today?
Terra used to be happy. She and Mars had a fantastic relationship. They had beautiful little reptilian offspring. Their attraction made them ...
Even Odds
She bent the corners of the cards up off the table, as if checking their values. She didn't even see them - her focus was on Mayweather across the table. She'd memorised her cards as they were dealt, and trusted her memory implicitly. If you couldn't ...
Time, 101
Greetings from Tarpoint
It's my favorite Super oldie playing from the speakers above: "I think we're alone now..." The lights are just right, bringing the girl out against the dark room, making the furniture behind her suggestions; a white body rising from black waters. Slick red 12 ...
The Business Acumen
T. Claudius Swifford sipped arabica from the back of his vintage, metal-colored, chauffeur-driven Triton Mercedes as it swooped to meet the maglev. He briefly recalled the scone and juice he'd been served for breakfast as he perused the Singapore vids. In ...
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