A Tour of Fort Helix
Bioengineering armies of killer mutants to fight the War against Evil is a growth industry in 28th Century Australia.
Fiction
Reflections on a Loaf of Rye
Hansel and Gretel’s love of sweets began long before they met the witch in the woods.
Hotel De Mort
Most folks say death on the premises is bad for business. For Hotel de Mort, it’s life.
Morphing Man
A telemarketing firm is struggling to make a profit. A star top biller is hired to turn the business around, but he presents a greater face of horror than the sight of a shrinking bottom line.
Camelot’s Last Heroes
An exiled fairy knight must lead a mismatched band of would-be heroes against the ultimate evil. The story is full of action, humor, and surprises. There are dwarves, fairies, magicians, an assortment of monsters… oh yeah, and some kids with a dog. What more can one want?
The Way of Water
A woman stands two metres from a public paying water tap, dying of thirst in a water-scarce world rife with corporate/government corruption and global resource warfare.
The Inverness Soliloquies
Horror in an undersea refuge with an acrostic and deliberate reference to Shakespeare thrown in for good measure.
Drive, It Said
The story of a ride-share gone really weird. A little bit noir, a little bit sci-fi, a little bit romance.
Metallosis
A post-apocalyptic story that mixes cyberpunk with biopunk. It conveys the message of maintaining your humanity while surrounded by so much technology (so much that it feels that you’re becoming a cyborg yourself).
Asexuals of the Cosmos, Unite!
A darkly humorous sci-fi tale of a federation of aliens on a cosmic mission to ‘a-sex’ civilizations throughout the universe, including Earth’s. After reading this piece, you will never think of UFO abduction stories in the same way again.
The Wedding Party
Finding lonely sanctuary in the woods the protagonist finds the only company he has is the waterlogged wedding party bobbing in the pond.
Corvid King Seeks Perfect Wife
For the King it is love at first sight, but can love, no matter how intense and generous, be forced?
The Uryuom Plight
Trapped on a backward planet hundreds of light-years from home, a brave astronaut hides in plain sight among the resident aliens and laments the dying world he left behind.
For Love, I Tear
A not-quite-human entity roams the world, hoping to find true love before her kind is erased from existence.
Lightning Between Your Fingers
A sordid tale of vice and corruption takes shape as Knight-Sister Arlise Dun investigates the mysterious death of courtesan Emerei Dawson.
Twinkle Twinkle
A mother, son, and grandmother evacuate a dark, frozen planet earth but dread something even worse.
Six Things you can Build with a Radish when You’re only One Inch Tall
When you’re married to a witch don’t make empty promises or you may find yourself learning a hard lesson.
In the Shadow of the Stars
When exploring abandoned wrecks within the accretion disk of a black hole Rhea, a inexperienced girl living on the salvage ship Thanaku, discovers the impossible: the body of a female human, dormant within a 100-year old container. Nobody on the ships believes it should be revived but Rhea can’t help feeling kinship with this semi-mythical creature.
Decision Tree
Trapped in a life pod attached to a dying spacecraft, an aging, battle-weary engineer has less than three minutes to live and an impossible choice to make. However, thanks to two computer programmers—over 100 years in the past—he’s not alone.
Leo
Meet Leo. Experiment, child, or monster? What makes him beautiful is that he is not human. He’s better.
A Rational House
A tightly wound architect is forced to extremes when ridding her house of a man who keeps growing from the walls.
Moira and Ellie
Jenna can’t wait to meet her imaginary friend–but her ghost turns out to have a closer connection to her family than she imagines.
Everything is a Rocket Ship
There’s something I never told you, but I think you’re old enough now to know. I have a magic inside me. It lives between the lines in my fingertips and changes what I touch so I can fly away to a world far less frightening.
Five Things to do on the Way to the Bottom of the Sea
Benefits and pitfalls of undersea tourism exposed!
A Mother Knows
After fertility reached an all time low, fertile women are inseminated in an effort to save humanity. While caring for her dying child, one mother takes measure to ensure she won’t have another baby.
A Last Word
An author must tell his three elderly leading characters that he is handing them over to someone else.
The Goddess of the Labyrinth
As the 45th president of the United States, Daniel Van Dorien has encountered the only obstacle to completing his plan for his country’s future. When an unknown Goddess is reawakened in the White House, the president’s pursuit of enlightenment will shift the nation’s future as a super-power.
Heartsick
In a world where it is illegal to be unhealthy, a young doctor must choose between her heart and the career she’s fought so hard for…
Mmanwu Festival
Centred on the Igbo Mmanwu Festival, Chinaza’s words dance between the past and present, capturing the essence of family ties and spirituality of this time of year.
Blood Prism
Penny Dreadful meets American Gods.
A literary, romantic, dark-horror that immerses you in an alternate San Francisco inhabited by old gods, gold rush madams, Sally Hemings, and vampires.
Honeybee and the Blot
An unusual rendezvous takes place in outer space. The synthetic creature known as Honeybee brings a young man’s soul to her lover, an entity called the Blot. Yet Honeybee begins to question her relationship with the Blot after it treats her poorly.
Sugar Plum Ghosts
A ballerina who’s always dreamed of the spotlight finds herself in the shadows when she makes a dangerous deal with a ghost.
Kill Your Darlings
What happens when meeting the star of your favorite childhood show and everything goes awry?
