No Worlds Left to Conquer
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat happens to science fiction when aliens actually do show up on Earth?
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Shift Change
Reading Time: 8 minutesPerhaps we control our own destiny. Perhaps, a kind and gentle deity looks over us from on high, and provides just the right amount of guidance, love and support. Then again, probably not. Perhaps, just perhaps, our destinies and our beliefs are intertwined in some strange manner.
The Arbitrator 4000
Reading Time: 7 minutesAfter being arrested for stealing a bike, Hasan faces a trial led by a thorough, emotionless machine.
The Odds of Logical Failure
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen Carter’s whole life has been defined through science and facts, what will he do when those facts suddenly turn his heart—and mind—against all logic?
Unintended Peril
Reading Time: 3 minutesFinding 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.
The Superhero Registry
Reading Time: 4 minutesWith great power, comes a great deal of pressure to chose a cool super-name!
The Birth of Death
Reading Time: 7 minutesStarbonder Elidoh never imagined anything would threaten her connection with the Unison. She was wrong.
The Whole Infernal Machine
Reading Time: 17 minutesA dark, speculative story in the vein of Orwell and Vonnegut.
So You Want to Eat An Omnalik Starfish
Reading Time: 4 minutesA step-by-step guide on what to expect when you’re preparing the universe’s most elusive delicacy.
Tiny Gods
Reading Time: 14 minutesAnna retires to Northwick, with dreams of living out her remaining years in the comfort of a charming New England town. Things aren’t as peaceful as she had hoped, though, as she discovers the islanders’ bizarre secret.
Dagger Quest
Reading Time: 16 minutesAn adventuring duo seeks the legendary, magical dagger of Shellafen. This weapon is embedded in the troll that killed Shellafen.
The Foot Race
Reading Time: 24 minutesAt a moon colony where Mars Orbiters are manufactured, a damaged android is saved from the recycle shredder by an introverted teenager with vague ambitions of ion boarding on Mars. Against Trent Wagner’s own substantial logic, he accepts the challenge from the older kids to fix the bot and enter it into the Foot Race, a three mile competition across the lunar surface. Things get interesting as the bot displays behaviors and images of a past human life.
Rocket Man
Reading Time: 14 minutesIn an alternate Cold War, America is armed with a fleet of manned nuclear ICBMs. But all is not well, and every night, the rocket man dreams of Moscow . . .
Eat Me
Reading Time: 17 minutesReporter Angela Ioane discovers the most promising new weight loss therapy in years has side effects no one is talking about.
Meat Bag
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis is a dark SF tale about creating organ donors for those who can pay.
The Color Of My Home Is Red Like An Apple
Reading Time: 19 minutesRejected by her god and exiled by her tribe for reasons beyond her understanding, a young alien girl seeks the truth of her world and the faith of her people.
Relative
Reading Time: 2 minutesA dying physicist makes a desperate attempt to spare his daughter grief by flying into a black hole.
A Waste of Time
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat if your past was a lie and you had the opportunity to go back and change it?
Apotheosis
Reading Time: 5 minutesHumanity finally finds God, waiting in a nearby planetary system. Of course, that’s when the problems begin.
Return of the Martian Rebels
Reading Time: 26 minutesTwo powerful Martian adversaries vie for leadership and the love of one woman.
Bod Yart
Reading Time: 17 minutesThe country that gave the world Bach, Mozart and Beethoven used poison gas, barbed wire and machine guns in order to kill as many men as possible. The countries that gave the world Shakespeare, Milton, Bizet, Victor Hugo, Tchaikovsky and Tolstoy responded in kind.
A Song for the Leadwood Tree
Reading Time: 17 minutesNehan is her people’s wartime queen, and must surrender her crown if she can repel her country’s invaders. With her biological daughters dead, she must hope she has done enough to smooth the way for her adopted son, the orphan of poor nomad folk, to rule after her.
Until the end of the party
Reading Time: 14 minutesA galoot is kidnapped by aliens for medical experiments. He becomes unexpectedly intelligent, takes out the aliens and conquers earth.
Jingle-jangle
Reading Time: 3 minutesAnd then I was fading, ears ringing and body broken by shrapnel that jingle-jangled in my pocket, before I failed Christiane.
Dead People’s Things for Sale
Reading Time: 12 minutesThe clock on Abigail’s nightstand read 11:00. Death would be here within the hour.
Melody
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor a split second, I couldn’t tell if it was a person pounding at the door or the wind, but then I heard a young voice scream, “HELP! HELP ME!”
Saving Grace
Reading Time: 11 minutesBlood pooled from the inside arch of her right foot, leaving a watery trail of droplets behind her.
A Winter’s Morning
Reading Time: 19 minutesThe monster began to come towards him, its massive arms at its sides, and its trunk-like feet sliding along the ground.
The True Story of Bloody Bones
Reading Time: 10 minutesIn her bed was found a messy pile of blood-stained bones and skull and jaw fragments.
Unknown Empire
Reading Time: 11 minutesHe threw back the covers to look to see what the problem was into his lower limbs which were covered with fire ants!
The Thing in the Woods
Reading Time: 14 minutesThe cat’s mouth cranked wide open just as the rock had, the top of her head falling backward until she stared upside down at us with glassy eyes.
The Lady Who Would Not Die
Reading Time: 9 minutesShe treads softly on the blood-soaked ground, disturbing the crows that came to feast.
Seen
Reading Time: 23 minutesWhen I opened my eyes a little wider and tilted my head just so—to see, really see—I noticed the fairies dancing between the floorboards of my bedroom.
Evacuation: Earth
Reading Time: 4 minutesEvacuating Earth was arguably the most difficult thing ever undertaken by humankind.
Dead Men Walking
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.
Dr. Garbanzo Writes the First Draft
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere was a quick, frantic splashing, an ascent of bubbles, and then nothing.
Decoy
Reading Time: 4 minutesTesca 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.
Crow Barn
Reading Time: 11 minutesCalypso had heard the stories how Jackson Hammond hanged himself from the rafters inside the barn, his eyes pecked by crows. A year after, his wife hanged herself.
Finding Georgia
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.
Signs of Gods
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.
The Wacky Fun Factory
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe fun never ends at the Wacky Fun Factory. Even if you want it to.
Dust
Reading Time: 18 minutesAs artificial intelligence and nanotechnology are changing the way we wage war, some things will always stay the same.
