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The Kite Maker
The Kite Maker
When an alien walks into a human kite maker’s store, coveting her kites, the human struggles with her guilt over her part in the alien massacres…
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The Kite Maker
Endnote, by Susan Taitel
Endnote, by Susan Taitel
“How many times have I had the misfortune to die?” Juliet falls into her chair with a dramatic toss of her head. “As many times as the rest of us.” Desdemona rolls her eyes.
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Endnote, by Susan Taitel
The Truth Hunter, by Thea Cooke
The Truth Hunter, by Thea Cooke
Truths are vile beasts with needle-like fangs. They prefer to nest in the dark, but once they mature and come to light, they grow exponentially and devour all creatures in their path. The cold-bloo…
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Moonville: Death Waltzes in the Sea of Tranquillity - 365tomorrows
Moonville: Death Waltzes in the Sea of Tranquillity - 365tomorrows
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer Silicon ash flutes through ink and glints as ascending blackened leaves in my wake. I can hear my vertebrae as they torque. I hear them and the chatter shatters as they arch. I hear them even as my ears sear from my head and the torque turns to a gut-spat […]
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Moonville: Death Waltzes in the Sea of Tranquillity - 365tomorrows
Cabin Fever - 365tomorrows
Cabin Fever - 365tomorrows
Author: Letícia Piroutek Hayden slams the door of his underground metal shoebox. Technology my ass. Everything is cramped and he can hear his neighbors yelling as if they’re inside his “apartment”. It consists of a sink with artificial water that tastes like plastic no matter how many flavor tablets you add to it, one single […]
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Cabin Fever - 365tomorrows
The Eraser - 365tomorrows
The Eraser - 365tomorrows
Author: Mark Renney Tanner’s job was to remove the evidence, to wipe away the traces. He considered this task as necessary, that he was an essential part of the system and for more than forty years Tanner’s belief in the system hadn’t wavered. He had remained resolute, diligent and effective. Although he remembered all the […]
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The Eraser - 365tomorrows
Boltzmann's Brain - 365tomorrows
Boltzmann's Brain - 365tomorrows
Author: Calum Strachan It was an overwhelmingly unlikely occurrence. Somewhere at the end of time, as the universe approached uniformity, a localised phenomenon sprung out of the thin and fragile space. Purely by chance, the particles that had drifted alone for so long coalesced all at once with pugilistic violence and grace. Colliding atoms inadvertently […]
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Seventeeners - 365tomorrows
Seventeeners - 365tomorrows
Author: Andrew Dunn They come every seventeenth year. Momma says they are evil, each one a little piece of hell called forth by her ex-husband to torment springtime before summer’s heat dries our corner of Georgia to a crisp. “Cicadas.” Molly said. “They’re just bugs.” Molly was unshouldering her bra in my bedroom, and then […]
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Seventeeners - 365tomorrows