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“Go Then”

By submission | May 11, 2022
Author: Michael Edwards The Introduction. “He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.” — Lao Tzu As for me, it may sound rather grand, but I am called a seventh degree master of The Mountain Pathway tai chi ...
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Maurice

By submission | May 10, 2022
Author: Salvatore Difalco Maintenance received a call from one of the bio-labs to come and replace a panel of flickering fluorescent lights. They were upsetting the mouse. “The mouse?” I asked Jerry, the shift boss. I’d only been working at the Polytechnic Institute for two ...
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The Magma Fields of Slarrul

By Julian Miles | May 9, 2022
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer “Good afternoon. My name is Deut Wallis. I’m from the Galactic Encyclopaedia Update Department.” Perry regards the bespectacled gent with suspicion. The last one who turned up in a suit that smart wanted to sell folk funeral plots on the ...
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Dependency

By viraltwit | May 8, 2022
Author: G. J. Poirier ”Is that your dependent?” The woman with the too-close eyes leaned in, her breath hitting Elma like a wall of rancid fog. Elma suppressed a gag and nodded. “Yes. The one with the red cap.” She shifted down the bench a few inches. “Mine isn’t ...
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Away Team

By submission | May 7, 2022
Author: Alastair Millar I'm trying to ignore the shaking; they warned us that the final approach was going to be bumpy, and thank all that's holy for the motion sickness shot. Head against the bulkhead, I’m remembering why I'm here. I can see that kid's face in front of ...
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First Communion

By submission | May 6, 2022
Author: Robert Beech Edward Soul-Keeper, seventh of that name (or Corpse-Eater as he was called outside of what people thought was his range of hearing), sat at the head of the long table, surrounded by his seventeen living children and grandchildren. It was an intimate ...
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A Kind Word

By submission | May 5, 2022
Author: Jenna Hanan Moore They say a kind word never broke anyone’s mouth, but that’s not true. A kind word broke my mouth. Strictly speaking, I don’t have a mouth. That is, I don’t have a physical opening in my face from which to project my voice. But I do have a language ...
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Supply Run

By submission | May 4, 2022
Author: Oliver Hunt It had been five years since the Consortium AI left to face the alien threat. Five years since humanity's brightest minds came together and built a machine to fight amongst the stars whilst we defended our home. Little did we know we were creating the ...
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Vernix Moon

By Hari Navarro | May 3, 2022
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer There was once a moon that orbited nothing. A shale-strewn grey sphere hung wedged in the sticky primordial trap of a very particular gravitational crossroads. A lifeless nothing that became a fertile canal. A moistened fingertip with ...
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Walk This Way

By Julian Miles | May 2, 2022
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer “Is your head deformed in some way?” I spin left, taking the still-habitual extra step to back off a bit while doing so. It’s an Uglonos herder, complete with brow spines painted blue. The contrast with his lime green hide is striking, ...
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Slowpo

By submission | May 1, 2022
Author: Majoki “You wrong. Dead wrong, O’Bob. The slowpo didn’t do this.” Mikal nodded absently around him at the decay, the gloom, the malaise, the rotting bones of the city they scavenged everyday. “You did.” “You mean we all did. All of us.” Old Bob sighed. His ...
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A Library

By submission | April 30, 2022
Author: Ross Field “You are ready to hear the story of our people my son” With their backs to the blinding light and whipping sand they descended down the wide tunnel worn smooth from time, through the carcasses of toppled skyscrapers, museums, and churches compacted ...
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Veterans of Alien Wars

By submission | April 29, 2022
Author: David Barber One of the aliens was strolling through the city centre as easy as you please. As if the war had not happened. For an instant the Pilot saw worlds burning, air spilling from nests, the sparkle of detonations amongst their swarming craft. He'd ...
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When the Sentinels Wake

By submission | April 28, 2022
Author: CL Farley Light turns the insides of my eyelids red. A strange smell, burning and sharply sweet, sticks in my nostrils and the back of my throat. This is not my cool backyard, where the damp breeze chilled my skin and sunset painted the looming clouds purple and ...
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Field of Reeds

By submission | April 27, 2022
Author: Rachel Sievers Throwing shadows in the black of night and moving quickly under the heavy cloud cover we move over the rocky terrain. Fear of darkness is not an option anymore. A crevasse springs up and catches my shoe tip and I stumble. The ground comes up to meet ...
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Tying Knots in the String

By submission | April 26, 2022
Author: Hillary Lyon “So, ponder this,” Drew began, “Thomas Jefferson was a Deist—he subscribed to the idea of the Clock-Maker. Remember?” “Yes,” Brady nodded. “I recall.” He loved thought experiments. “The belief was, a cosmic clock-maker—God—created this perfect, ...
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A Letter from Georgia

By Julian Miles | April 25, 2022
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer The advantages bestowed by the digitally-enhanced lifestyle are many. On the other hand, I’ve never found it… Warm. There’s an intimacy to tactile media, an emotional connection with the turn of a page, the smell of a second-hand bookshop ...
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After Earth

By submission | April 24, 2022
Author: Shannon O'Connor I wait in line to get on the space shuttle, ready to leave Earth. I carry a bag with my belongings I think I might need. I didn’t know what to pack; I tried to only bring essentials. My kind are being sent away, since we are no longer needed. We ...
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