Angel To Go
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer
She stands there in the street, head cocked to one side, hair in disarray. I pause to watch what happens next. These ‘no loitering’ walkways are still new to smaller towns.
A patrol drone rolls up next to her. It beeps in what’s supposed ...
In My Defense
Author: John McNeil
Excuse me, I thought it was my turn. You had your hours and hours to say your so-called evidence, and now I'd like to talk about what really happened. Can we have Javert with a clipboard over here stop interrupting?
Thank you. As I was trying to say, ...
Queen Arthur And The Edged Weapon, Excalibur
Author: David Barber
The Princess was touring the human quarter. She savoured these adventures, accompanied only by a human guide and her security flock.
Jomo was an amusing companion. As they made their way through the raucous marketplace, he
regaled the Princess with ...
New Words
Author: Stephen Murtough
The blank screen became the words: Jasmine loved Jonathan more than he loved her.
Thirty children were seated in individual booths with individual screens, and they each answered by pressing one of two buttons. Twenty-eight were correct. The ...
Into the Everlasting Now
Author: Hillary Lyon
“How about: ‘Rainbow’s End’?” the art consultant said as she swept her hand in an arc through the air, eyes aglitter.
“How about: No,” said the polling consultant seated beside her. “That might attract little kids, I’m afraid, and that would be ...
Last
Author: Jason Kocemba
Greg has finally breathed his last. He was a good boy, faithful.
He deserves to be buried and not left to be carrion, but I’m tired.
In the beginning, when the dead were fresh, I buried them: single, double, mass graves, it didn’t matter. When I ...
I Am Not An Alien
Author: Connor Long-Johnson
A crowd had gathered and soon snowballed into a frenetic mob on the bridge overlooking the river. Cries and shouts swirled in the air as the crowd surged and morphed like the uneasy river below, sirens blared in the background and two lone police ...
Family Tree
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer
The third moon of Charius has an erratic orbit. The survey vessel noted that fact, but evaluated the deviation to be within acceptable margins. Nobody bothered to investigate any further because, by then, the planet was desolate: ruined by ...
Blue Endeavor
Author: Brian C. Mahon
Maurice yells in capitalized white letters across her left eye’s field of vision: [DO NOT MOVE.]
Target confirmed - ten feet away, closing.
Shiori’s training keeps excitement in check; the suit keeps her mute. The target, Meng Mei, born to the ...
A Kiss
Author: Rachel Sievers
The crowd rushed on in the hot, stale air. Women holding the hands of little ones. Men rushing by with all their possessions. The holy and unholy fleeing before the wave of evil. All around people ran by him. His feet were cemented down as he watched ...
Into the Caves at Last
Author: Lin Edwards
She knew she was close, and her heart was racing.
She’d been on the catering team of the dive expedition all those years ago; young, inexperienced, excited just to be part of it. They hadn’t let her go down into the cave system or its tendrils of ...
White Noise
Author: Linda McMullen
I turn onto my side as a MyPillow ad launches behind my eyelids. They fly open. The algorithm adjusts. I settle back down. A commercial for a sleep number mattress plays, and I wonder if it’s worth the money. I decide that a) it probably is, and b) I ...
Three Centuries. Same Radio.
Author: Asch
My identity initiates with a signal into space, announcing my presence with a tangible image inviting others to respond if they are out there.
You ping me seconds after I project my presence onto the ether, complimenting the image. When you say that you love ...
Non Cogito Ergo…
Author: Dick Narvett
Professor Nia Elston was apprehensive about accepting the incoming telepathcom. She had a funny feeling something was wrong. As usual, she was right.
Kiana, Dr. Spellman’s assistant, entered her head. She informed Nia that her test results were ...
Fort Anger
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer
The sky is lit by colossal energy beams throughout an otherwise murky afternoon. Most of them originate from the monstrous shape that looms on the far horizon like a mountain cut from steel.
The outpost on the hill had been deserted since ...
Veins of Nickel-Iron
Author: Anisha Narayan
Soaring, soaring through the sinuous labyrinth of taenite trails that twisted like a tangle of veins through the terrain of Erasmus, Myka and Ylla glided, smoothly and effortlessly. They hurtled along chrome-hued paths reflecting their hoverboards as ...
Simulated-Life during wartime
Author: Riley Meachem
When the Terrans had first set up camp on these plains, they’d massacred all the native animals, mostly for food, but also for convenience. It didn’t do to have cattle meandering around when you were trying to pull off tactical maneuvers. The corpses ...
I Begin to Dream
Author: Evan MacKay
I lower myself into the pod slowly, feeling the cool nutrient gelatin cover my skin. A shiver ripples across me, causing hairs to stand on edge before they are submerged. My legs go first, then my sex, then my torso. Finally, I come to my head. I take a ...
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