Where Old Wood Decays
Reading Time: 5 minutesA timeworn witch, the last of her coven, fights her young replacement to cling to the post she’s held for centuries as the steward of the Mother Tree.
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Come Back Yesterday
Reading Time: 7 minutesA man learns of his destiny when he discovers the body of the mother he never knew. A letter left at he scene is hard to believe.
Humans and Androids as Societal Partners
Reading Time: 8 minutesDo we need new rules for a society where androids are becoming more and more lifelike?
In My Home
Reading Time: 10 minutesA prisoner with no knowledge of their own identity is kept in solitary confinement, visited daily by human projections designed to prevent mental deterioration. When the opportunity for escape is presented, a dormant instinct resurfaces in the prisoner, and the need to fulfill this drive supplants the desire for freedom.
The Fool’s Fiddle
Reading Time: 18 minutesDragons can’t lie, right? That’s what the legends say. So, when Guy finds himself at the wrong end of a failed heist, he puts that knowledge to the test. Compatriots dead. Hope gone. And his last chance at life is convincing a dragon to let him go.
The Wreck of the Lorelei
Reading Time: 21 minutesTrapped in an experiment in faster-than-light space travel, the captain of the ship searches for what went wrong.
Confederate Cavalry on a Plane
Reading Time: 15 minutesA physics professor and his student on a plane argue about the possibility of infinite alternate universes, while being robbed blind by a bratty kid. The professor bets the student that even the most unlikely event possible must happen, leading to three very confused Confederate Cavalry charging down the aisle.
Take Away The Tears
Reading Time: 4 minutesConscripted Lieutenant Lovemore Vulgaris has been instructed to design the people of the future, and he’s not messing around.
The Wellington Methodology
Reading Time: 10 minutesScience fiction meets gothic in this story of a groundbreaking discovery gone wrong, and the horrifying fall of the titular scientist.
From Below
Reading Time: 15 minutesIn the aftermath of a climate apocalypse, Jeremy and Alex survive by supplying food to the wealthy people living above the water, in the penthouses of Old Manhattan. But the wealthy aren’t the only ones that are hungry.
My Brain Through Your Brain
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen Katie’s brain seems to jump out of sync she discovers another, almost identical, mind living inside her own. This duplicate mind gradually is not what she seems but instead something far more dangerous.
And Water’d Heaven With Their Tears
Reading Time: 19 minutesWhen a bioengineered “weapon” goes feral, a kill team is dispatched to retire it.
Fractures Like Windows and Time
Reading Time: 8 minutesParenting is hard enough without help from the multiverse.
Neighbors
Reading Time: 4 minutesBeing neighborly isn’t always easy. Morgred has to hold her tongue while her daughter makes other plans.
Past Due
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a world where holograms allow us to hang on even past death, a young man needs to make a hard choice.
The Last Thing Taken
Reading Time: 9 minutesWhen Sophia meets Oloku, she thinks it’s the perfect, strings-free affair. But when she learns his secret, she finds there’s a price to pay for loving him.
Follow Me
Reading Time: 21 minutesWhen Influencer Jan Pham downloads an app from the dark web that promises fame, fortune, and – most importantly – more followers, she gets more than she bargained for.
Interlude In Gehenna
Reading Time: 18 minutesHe should have killed the man when he had the chance. Now there was nothing to do but wait for retribution in a town just a shade removed from hell.
A Voice From the Past
Reading Time: 18 minutesThe young archaeologist Edward Campbell, is obsessed with the idea of knowing what happened to his father, who died years earlier while exploring an unknown tomb he discovered in an isolated area of Egypt.
Auschwitz Dancer
Reading Time: 16 minutesThe spirit of famous Jewish ballet dancer, Franceska Mann, is stuck in time in a parallel dimension in 1943 at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland.
Portrait
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn 1921, a London painter’s encounter with a beautiful Romanian woman leads to a portrait sitting with hellish consequences.
A Substitute for Salvation
Reading Time: 23 minutesA post-apocalyptic love triangle inspired by “Casablanca” that revolves around a misanthropic bar owner, a Mars-bound clone fighting for his freedom, and a repurposed sex droid.
I Got Dem Ol’ Apocalypse Blues Again
Reading Time: 19 minutesJackson, a wanna-be bounty hunter in a post-apocalyptic city, has been hired to find the people responsible for several acts of industrial sabotage. A moral person living in a city where morality isn’t a particularly good survival trait, Jackson ends up facing a crisis of conscience.
Mortimer the Maus
Reading Time: 14 minutesIn “Mortimer The Maus,” Picco conveys the childhood terror of becoming lost in a large crowd, and the perils of being found by something else.
Virtually Yours
Reading Time: 12 minutesIn a world of seamless surveillance where virtual and real coalesce in a teasing dance, love is the trickster
Three Eight Two
Reading Time: 13 minutesWhere past and future meet, often it’s those living in the present that feel most conflicted.
Reflections on a Loaf of Rye
Reading Time: 4 minutesHansel and Gretel’s love of sweets began long before they met the witch in the woods.
Five Things to do on the Way to the Bottom of the Sea
Reading Time: 3 minutesBenefits and pitfalls of undersea tourism exposed!
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Heartsick
Reading Time: 17 minutesIn 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…
Nothing in the Dark
Reading Time: 26 minutesCosmic horrors await an astronomer on a solo observing run.
Second Bite
Reading Time: 4 minutesA dentist with a dark family history receives a request to fit a patient with a very unique set of teeth.