Time To Think | 365tomorrows
Author : Clint Wilson It always felt lonely when the ship sailed off to tow more rocks. After all, being the only companions for eighteen light-years Jim didn’t want to see them wander too far. But…
Sci-FiLittle Red Drops | 365tomorrows
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer A single bullet was all that was needed to start the last ever war on earth. A bullet and the head of a small child to put it in. Innocent, in as much as she sure…
Space Oatmeal | 365tomorrows
Author: Richard M. O’Donnell, Sr. Frank Blair woke up confused, but that was okay. Confusion in the morning was normal, a challenge. His caseworker used that word a lot. “Frank, you have chal…
High Noon | 365tomorrows
Author: KevS I sit nursing the beer, the bar noise a background thrum. The place is full of tech voyeurs. My Fingers absentmindedly circling the jack at the back of my skull. I used to grow my hair…
Dark Passage | 365tomorrows
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer “Now I have a little time to think”, she whispers to herself without moving her lips. Nothing new in that. Her escape pod lays upon a forlorn acid plain. A monoto…
It’s Not Like They’ll Miss It | 365tomorrows
Author: Jae Miles, Staff Writer The last words my Pa said to me were: “Down where the rocks run free, and the colours run like blood.” Not the traditional deathbed wisdom for the young buck, but ce…
Respect All Mechanicals | 365tomorrows
Author : Philip Berry Jake, aged nine, was found with his hands deep in the inverted workings of a 3rd generation litter picker, behind a mineral refinery by outer orbital. He was a mile from home,…
Myopia in Utopia | 365tomorrows
Author: David C. Nutt “Any chance I can talk you out of it?” “Nope.” Dan glanced at a small three by five card he was holding in his palm. Michael raised an eyebrow and pointed to the card with a q…
Thud, Bang | 365tomorrows
Author: Jae Miles, Staff Writer Is all I hear. On a world where everything uses parts of the visual spectrum humans don’t, we’d have been better off staying away. Far from its star, the eternally-t…
CHARLIE | 365tomorrows
Author: Suzanne Borchers CHARLIE had found itself leaning against a trash bin in a nearby alley—alone, jobless, and needing shelter. Its owner had abandoned the retail store to run away with his cl…
The Salzburger Conundrum | 365tomorrows
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer The senator peels from her lover and she thinks of her impending speech and she thinks of her wife and her husband. Her bid to prevent the ISTC’s proposal to trav…
Eudora Pennifer and The Bleatsmackers | 365tomorrows
Author: Janet Shell Anderson “There ought to be bleatsmackers,” Giovanna Tatiana Romanova Baldwin says. She’s come back from nowhere, or maybe Gliese 246, a near perfect copy of Earth that circles …
The God Locator | 365tomorrows
Author: David Henson The God Locator, no bigger than a TV remote, projected a hologram of the world with veins of light indicating the presence of God. The projection could be small as a grapefruit…
The Eyes That Never Sleep | 365tomorrows
Author: Jae Miles, Staff Writer I open my eyes to behold a slit of blue between tenements that descend from lofty, sunlit heights to the sordid mess of which I am a larger part. Lining that strip o…
Cat Toys | 365tomorrows
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer Cat toys. They have an aisle for cat toys. Of all the gaudy alleys in all the supermarkets and I find myself boxed into the last seconds of existence surrounded b…
Online Always | 365tomorrows
Author: Lance J. Mushung I stepped onto the yellow and black transfer disk mounted on the gray deck of Delia Akeley and began bouncing like a child expecting candy. I’d be home in moments. Mi…
Joel’s Best Vacation Ever | 365tomorrows
Author: Tim Ulrich The doors opened and the small throng Joel was standing with, moved to board the lift. They shuffled into the car, jostling against each other as they settled into an impromptu f…
Rocket Man | 365tomorrows
Author: David Barber “Hi, granddad. It’s Tom.” His granddad’s puzzled gaze flicked between the brothers. “Look, Corbin’s here. We’ve come to see you.” “Christ,” muttered Corbin. “Probably kee…
Oxygen Isn’t Love | 365tomorrows
Author: Irene Montaner I was never good at holding my breath underwater. So the moment the doors closed I knew I only had seconds left to live. Seconds left to think of Luna, alone in that escape p…
Flowers From Another Time And Place | 365tomorrows
Author: Irene Montaner “So, what is it?” Dan asks. I don’t know. I think it’s a flower but I don’t remember its name. I add another brushstroke to my watercolour painting. Another red leaf, longer …
Robots Are Our Friends | 365tomorrows
Author: Sam Davis The wind swept down the valley, once dotted with trees but now covered in soot and ash, and rolled through the trench causing Elijah to pull his coat tighter around him. It didn’t…
Retroactive Futurism | 365tomorrows
Author: Steve Smith, Staff Writer Jodi pushed open Jane’s door, knocking while it was already swinging inwards and waited until it had closed behind her before speaking. “Next Tuesday a…
A Pasture of Stars | 365tomorrows
Author: Mark Joseph Kevlock “I’m finished at last.” Tommy pulled Mariel by the hand as they ran through the nearby woods. “I’ve retrofitted the structure with twin roc…
Negotiations | 365tomorrows
Author: Rick Tobin Charlene, a bubbly, buxom blonde graduate student from Rutgers, acting as a freshly appointed aide-de-camp to a hatchling President, turned sour overnight. Her daily briefing not…
Our E-ternal Loved Ones | 365tomorrows
Author : Rollin T. Gentry Jay poked his head through the open doorway and glanced around. Standard fare: coffee pot in the back, whiteboard up front, A-is-for-Apple, Z-is-for-Zebra signs all over t…
Pride | 365tomorrows
Author : Priya Chand, Featured Writer Red lights flapped in an artificial breeze. For the observer whose data banks were lacking, most of the lamps were identical: a big round input, and an output …
7,000 Words The blue pills came first. Robin’s egg blue and smelling faintly chemical when Madeline opened the bottle. Then yellow, and a green the color of scum that grew on the pond her landlord …Bioinfinity
Author : Beck Dacus Six feet from the cave entrance, we all turned on our flashlights and moved toward the mouth. The only way to get down was a steep flight of natural rock stairs, giving us footh…
by Jack Clemons Wildcatter dropped onto Hawking a month ahead of perihelion. We slammed in after losing a brutal tug of war with the singularity thatThe Long Wait
Author : Jordan Altman Weightlessly floating in the blue liquid of my suspended animation pod, a queasy feeling stirred in my stomach. The tubes down my throat feeding me air, water, and food didn’…
Into Existence
Author : Olivia Black, Staff Writer Cold. For so long it has only know the frigid expanse of deep space, numb to the wonders, and horrors, of the galaxy. In this solitary existence, time has no mea…
Author : Leanne A. Styles I reached across and tightened the strap on my kid sister’s tatty seatbelt. She grinned; through the breathing tubes, through the pain. The shuttle we’d stolen had been re…Wine and Tears
Author : Jae Miles, Staff Writer “I’ll bring your drinks over in a moment, but the steak sandwich will be about ten minutes.” With a flick of her auburn hair, Teria moves away, navigating the table…