Fiction

Reading Time: 16 minutesMy helmet melted away, revealing what should have been a skull, but instead showcased thousands of minuscule cables, flicking lights and tiny gears, latched to my brain and wiring me into the armor’s motor functions. It had become a part of my body.

Reading Time: 6 minutesThere was a quick, frantic splashing, an ascent of bubbles, and then nothing.

Reading Time: 10 minutesIt’s Georgia I see, naked in that corner, hands shackled high, a coyote half inside her, squirming at the jagged hole in her gut.

Reading Time: 5 minutesOur nightmare started when they decided to take home mementos.

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen people start to get mysterious spots and disappear, Jude becomes concerned, but all is not what it seems as he searches for the truth.

Reading Time: 18 minutesAs artificial intelligence and nanotechnology are changing the way we wage war, some things will always stay the same.

Reading Time: 4 minutesAn old-tech modem leads an ex-con back into a world of crime.

Reading Time: 8 minutesAn unusual love story in a portentous time and setting.

Reading Time: 8 minutesI’ve met countless souls over the years – rich and poor, young and old, across many different places and many different times, but never had I met anyone quite like him.

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat good is being psychic if you can only predict someone’s coffee order or that their shoe will come untied? But our heroine’s normally mundane talent takes a dark turn when she realizes she’s going to be hit by a car. Will she survive? Can she change her fate?

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe shack sits like the hollowed-out shell of a dead insect. The inner walls bleed with rotten wallpaper, and the floor is a gray slab, with a single window overlooking a black sea

Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen a chain-smoking, foul-mouthed finned gypsy washes up in a small Oregon town, the acting Chief of Police finds herself becoming a reluctant mermaids’ rights activist.

Reading Time: 15 minutesSimon, a weak man who suffers from stomach pain and headaches, is afraid of everything–fog, insects, his boss. But all of his pain and fears disappear when Simon finds a whole new universe on his Peek device.

Reading Time: 8 minutesI concealed the marvel that we discovered in the foothills of Sierra de Guadarrama. That I kept it a secret is my greatest sin.

Reading Time: 15 minutesWhen this narrator finds his “special lady,” he is swept away with her beauty and perfection. However, she has a hidden secret and events become increasingly bizarre until he finds out the outlandish truth about her.

Reading Time: 5 minutesA lonely man has a brief visit from a radiant female alien.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat happens when robots suffer regret and learn to love?

Reading Time: 5 minutesToto doesn’t understand why Dorothy ever wanted to leave Oz, so he finds a way back.

Reading Time: 5 minutesWho are they what do they want with us? We bring you the breaking news.

Reading Time: 17 minutes“A unique, bizarre talent” was how critics described Timera Lovich and her wildy speculative poetry. But even she didn’t know the true genesis of her imaginary tales until she realized she wasn’t who or what she thought she was. Until it was too late.

Reading Time: 12 minutesQuinn Baxter escaped from a tyrannical government and finds that he is now an alien fugitive on the run from his planet’s security squad.

Reading Time: 8 minutesA hellbeast stuck in a crappy office job struggles to comply with his sensitivity training.

Reading Time: 21 minutesFor Althea Stagg, demigod detective, family history and mythology are often the same thing. So it comes as no surprise to her when a case leads her to a corn maze, and the monster that stalks its prey within.