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The Velvet Invasion

By submission | May 15, 2022
Author: David Henson I motion toward the two interns. “You can all come in now.” Unpronounceable frowns at me. “I mean, both of you,” I say. The three enter my office. The two students leave after I give them their assignments. “You need to be more careful,” ...
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To Cull the Infinite Field of Dreams

By submission | May 14, 2022
Author: Alfred C. Airone I awoke in completely unfamiliar surroundings, not remembering having gone to sleep. There was someone else in the bed with me. I turned and saw her: cropped copper-red hair, perfect face, lips slightly parted, still asleep. I recognized her ...
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Snowdrop

By submission | May 13, 2022
Author: Ruby Zehnder "We can't afford a flex pet," she replied sharply. Ben said nothing. He knew she was right, but it didn't matter. This wasn't about money. "I'd love for Addie to have an emotional support pet, but--" she stopped speaking and wept. Ben took his young ...
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The Last Repairman

By submission | May 12, 2022
Author: Majoki The last repairman sat in his cramped booth at the nano-mall. He hadn’t had a customer in months. Around him shoppers scurried with their latest purchases micro-manufactured in neighboring stores. The last repairman looked at his hands which should’ve been ...
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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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