Three Centuries. Same Radio.
Reading Time: 3 minutes When reaching out to the stars above, the space beyond or the ether, we allocate disproportionate energy into preparing to cast the nets over catching the fish. What do we do with it?
Flash Fiction
Hyacinth
Reading Time: 3 minutes The allure of prospecting a deserted Mars becomes so compelling that nothing else matters. Not even love.
Limb Regeneration Therapy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Will this be the doctor who finally takes on Aki’s limb regeneration? It’s the sixth alien specialist and hope is slowly vanishing from his eyes.
This World of Strange Design
Reading Time: 4 minutes Building a planet used to be harder. There was a real art to it. It required raw talent polished to a diamond’s edge.
Superfine
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lightyears from home, a miner toils on a moon, gradually being hollowed out. They scrape a life, money to support their family, and something like friendship, from the dirt. But when disaster strikes, they are forced to make a hard decision.
Situation
Reading Time: 3 minutes What happens when a young mage tries to contain a hell breach? Well, it’s hell.
Top Dog Gone
Reading Time: 4 minutes One day a rabid animal took a bite out of Breeder’s beloved pet and sidekick Top Dog. Top Dog is a muscular, spoiled canine with a colossal appetite. Breeder always let Top Dog play with Creatures, even dangerous and wild ones. He secretly got a kick out of watching Top Dog’s nature grow hellish and animated when he toyed with them. Top Dog also had a talent for dominating Creatures of all kinds. Breeder bragged to Brother often.Â
Live Nude Death
Reading Time: 4 minutes A hitman hired to kill the Four Horsemen and prevent the apocalypse has one last target waiting for him in the parking lot of an abandoned strip club. But how do you kill Death?
Spiral Woman
Reading Time: 3 minutes Inspired by both the art of Louise Bourgeois and a news story about a sex-bot repairman, “Spiral Woman” gives a kind of agency to a member of the already-marginalized servant class of the future.
All Appearances Aside
Reading Time: 4 minutes You can change your appearance with the touch of a button. But should you?
No Worlds Left to Conquer
Reading Time: 4 minutes What happens to science fiction when aliens actually do show up on Earth?
The Dark Constellation
Reading Time: 3 minutes I haven’t seen what the world is running from, and my father won’t tell me. But I have heard what they say in the village. The monsters came from the sky to live in our oceans.
A Ship With No Parrot
Reading Time: 4 minutes Two cyborgs, a woman, and a parrot, are outmatched by their deep space competitors.
Unintended Peril
Reading Time: 3 minutes Finding a laptop in Mr. Chapa’s secondhand shop was like discovering an Apple watch on an Egyptian mummy. But Vern’s find was another’s tragic loss.
How the Monarchs Came to Utah
Reading Time: 3 minutes When Maria wakes up covered in Marigolds she knows she’s dead.
The Superhero Registry
Reading Time: 4 minutes With great power, comes a great deal of pressure to chose a cool super-name!
William’s Legacy
Reading Time: 4 minutes A hayride with an old friend from the past unveils uncomfortable truths for Max and his family.
So You Want to Eat An Omnalik Starfish
Reading Time: 4 minutes A step-by-step guide on what to expect when you’re preparing the universe’s most elusive delicacy.
Lizzie Williams’ Swampy Head
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lizzie Williams kept the head in a burlap sack. We’d pay to look at it, pay even more to hear its secrets. We hated that head.
The Talecrafter’s Apprentice
Reading Time: 4 minutes An apprentice talecrafter constructs her first magical tale.
The Lingering Taste of Mars
Reading Time: 3 minutes “I feel like I left my mind on Mars. Even now, I can still hear the wind.” Rosie reaches over from where she sits on her rocking chair and winds her fingers around mine. She hasn’t changed a bit, despite the years I was gone. Her face is still every bit as bright and optimistic …
Relative
Reading Time: 2 minutes A dying physicist makes a desperate attempt to spare his daughter grief by flying into a black hole.
A Waste of Time
Reading Time: 3 minutes What if your past was a lie and you had the opportunity to go back and change it?
Jingle-jangle
Reading Time: 3 minutes And then I was fading, ears ringing and body broken by shrapnel that jingle-jangled in my pocket, before I failed Christiane.
Evacuation: Earth
Reading Time: 4 minutes Evacuating Earth was arguably the most difficult thing ever undertaken by humankind.Â
Decoy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tesca watched as Braygin was enveloped in a blue orb, then winked out of existence along with a little section of tunnel floor he’d been standing on.
The Wacky Fun Factory
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fun never ends at the Wacky Fun Factory. Even if you want it to.
Twinkle
Reading Time: 2 minutes A band of faeries endeavors to help a worthy little girl by doggedly placing wish opportunities in her path.
The Greatest Mystery of the Universe
Reading Time: 4 minutes A scientist ponders the mysteries of dark matter — though it, and he, may not be what they seem…
House Keepers
Reading Time: 3 minutes When civilization begins to crumble, the 1 percent retreat to their summer homes.
The Old Storms
Reading Time: 3 minutes The old storms have gone away, and a little wonder has gone out of the world with them. Can they be brought back?
If Suddenly You Forget Me, Do Not Look for Me
Reading Time: 3 minutes With any experience in life, you have to take the good with the bad… unless you have the technology to sell either to the highest bidder.
A New Home
Reading Time: 3 minutes What makes a house a home? In the future, we might not have to be the ones who decide that.
Concerto
Reading Time: 4 minutes A haunted musician is compelled to make music for creatures he finds in the shadows…
Bellatrification
Reading Time: 4 minutes In a society where everybody is beautiful, physical imperfection becomes a career move.
Second Bite
Reading Time: 4 minutes A dentist with a dark family history receives a request to fit a patient with a very unique set of teeth.
Metaphors be with You
Reading Time: 3 minutes Neville Schroeder was a fireplug. He stood barely five feet tall, red, shabby, and pedestrian. Professor Connelly towered over him, a giant oak tree of a man with a silk paneled vest, tweed coat and tie, expensive glasses, and a neatly trimmed beard.
Silence
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Listen to me,” said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. “The region of which I speak is a dreary region in Libya, by the borders of the river Zaire. And there is no quiet there, nor silence.”