Author: Ken Poyner I do not know what I want to be today. The people who serendipitously gave me the ability to wrap ambient electromagnetism around my DNA and in seconds remake my body thought I would have a natural state, some pleasant default configuration that I would ...

Author: Arun Bahari It has been four months since Mary came from her reality to this reality. The migration between alternate realities was legalized last year. There are two laws for migration. First, your alternate version should be dead, and second, you can not go to the ...

Author: David Henson I extend my personal force shield to encompass the cart when I get inside the grocery store. Heading for the bread aisle, I push a little too close to a woman. Our shields glow slightly when they graze, and we squeeze past each other like two giant soap ...

Author: Michael Anthony Dioguardi Chris dipped down on a spiraling vortex and examined the jet stream beneath him. He crept in on his board and inspected the area—as if searching for something. “And we’re back at the 113th annual Great Red Spot Freestyle Championships, I’m ...

Author: Palmer Caine There is nothing until the buzzing and ringing disturbs my deepest thoughts, my darkest dreams, and I am awoken. I'd heard tales of dreams unlike any terrestrial imaginings where memories are colours organised in a table of elements. A place where ...

Author: R. J. Erbacher I’m writing this down because at some point there are going to be questions and I want to keep the facts straight. And no computer, don’t want anybody catching wind of this. About three weeks ago I got a call that my grandparents had died. Not at ...

Author: Arkapravo Bhaumik As I recall, at first it was a middle-aged woman from Sicily, Ariana Antonella. It was then I realized that though the feminine anatomy is a work of art but it felt out of context as I am derived from a man. On the brighter side, it was very ...

Author: Morrow Brady The four magic words. Complimentary Bed and Breakfast. Javed smiled. Somewhere, someone needed his critique. Rolling green countryside sprawled forever below the single white dot of a departing pod-cab. Mossy grey granite outcrops peppered the ...

Author: Renée Jessica Tan When we had isolated the predator gene, it was with all good intentions. The idea was to build a hyper-focused, unrelentingly driven, unapologetic and fearless Alpha. We knew these characteristics aren’t always considered a positive in society, but ...

Author: David Barber “Yes, I remember this one. His ex called it in. We found a bookcase full of porn. Vintage 2D on magnetic tape,” said Frank. The woman sitting on the other side of the desk is Jan Fierro, the Department chief. “When you say we, for the ...

Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer A savage chorus rises about us and I start running, dragging Mitchell with me. “What? Why are we running? I didn’t see anything.” I say nothing and try to hit my sprinting speed with a hundred-kilo doughball in tow. “Slow down! They’re ...

Author: Timothy Goss Mother watched from the kitchen. Johnny witnessed her disgust, she no longer recognised her son, neither recognised nor understood him. It was strange, one night three weeks ago he went to bed and everybody was acting and speaking normally, using ...

Author: Cara Yablonski The delivery was late. For the first time ever. Every season, the Towne received a shipment full of supplies. Necessities of life. A crate: the size of a modest house and filled to the metal-clad brim with sustenance. One that you could always count ...

Author: Gabrielle Elaine Thurman James sneezed, the corn maze’s pollinic miasma tickling his allergies. Shaking fingers pulled a tissue from his pocket. He dabbed his watery eyes, which searched the crowd at the labyrinth's entrance for anyone matching the app’s description ...

Author: Beverly V Head Sandrine was up early to begin work. She had put all the ingredients out the night before so that she could get started as soon as she got up. She had a long day ahead of her with teaching, errands after classes, and a late movie with her ...

Author: Katlina Sommerberg The grey tabby crouched low to the earth, her belly collecting dust. Duchess’s eyes tracked an iridescent gleam zipping across the sky. She wiggled in place: a final preparation before takeoff. *** Her human had adopted her from a shelter, ...

Author: Morrow Brady Stavros mooned the earth like the asshole he was. Jacob, the calm, perfunctory overseer AI, had never seen such a thing in its operational life but understood that showing one's personal point of evacuation to a whole planet, meant something emotional ...

Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer Drantill’s become a regular over the last year. His arrival times vary, but he’s always seated by 12:00. From then until 12:30 he watches the long lines of the digitised clockface on his phone move, saying nothing, barely breathing. ...