Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer The Prisoner Lucian Lockley is in a cell on the moon. He lays on the stainless steel bench and his eyes take leave and run up the side of his cage. The walls seem…
Author: Thomas Tilton Their date had gone fabulously well, which was why Simon was so depressed. Invariably, dates ended badly for him. Par for the course when you had a softball-sized parasite att…
Author: Ian Hill We came to the dead planet, left our vessel in orbit, and used an old mining lighter to reach the surface. The gray, withered husk of a world was even bleaker than it looked from a…
Author: Thomas Tilton Their date had gone fabulously well, which was why Simon was so depressed. Invariably, dates ended badly for him. Par for the course when you had a softball-sized parasite att…
Author : Paul Williams how can i get my ex girlfriend back I meant to pay. Kept twenty Euros in my pocket, you can see it on the camera. I kept it all night. It was still there when the hookers and…
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer Doctor Flynn had a difficult decision to make. He looked up from his desk. The afternoon sun was beaming through the window alleviating the need for candle to se…
Author: Bart Williams Jeremy awoke to see Karen hovering over him. She covered him with kisses until he was aroused and then they made vigorous love. “Good morning, birthday boy,” she said. Jeremy …
Author: Ian Hill We showed each other our wounds in the iron room. I saw the soft sump of skin on her head where part of her skull had cratered, and she peered at the fused and welded tendons that …
Author: Jae Miles, Staff Writer The view goes negative, then my tummy does the thing where it tries to chuck everything out whichever end is the nearest. It’s an hour before I can pick up the coffe…
Author: Gerard Baars Surging forward he crosses the sonic boom, his toned body unaffected by the turbulent forces. Accelerating he hits the second boom. Then the third, fourth… G-forces now t…
Author: Rick Tobin Pressing slick walls within Perri’s briefing center opened gigantic multi-verse mapping systems across a great briefing hall aboard Haven’s interstellar spacecraft. The Order’s e…
Author: Richard M. O’Donnell, Sr. Tee-Crux entered the spaceport with her service animal in tow. Everyone stopped to stare at her ET-Ultra. Even the ticket agents and porters gawked. Tee-Crux…
Author: Mark Joseph Kevlock The snow outside is at least four feet high. This will finally give us that chance to talk. Only, which one of us will begin? “I never meant to hurt you,” Ma…
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer The man hangs inverted and naked from the pole that sits at the centre of a galaxy. A neglected cosmos of once delicate but now mob trodden flowers. A meeting pla…
Author: Rollin T. Gentry A series of video clips play on the large screen behind the podium, low budget re-enactments, as a smooth, male voice narrates: fear of heights, fear of the dark, snakes, a…
Author: David Henson The prisoner, his shoulder burning with pain, winces the pickaxe overhead then slams it down. The crystalline surface fractures. The shards slice his hands as he loads the jagg…
Author: Rick Tobin “He’s on edge again. It’s intolerable when he tears into our crew like this. Makes me itch all over.” D-7 moved away from overheated control panels. He heard sputtering of wiring…
A Strongly Worded Letter to the Department of Future Persons | 365tomorrows
Author: John McLaughlin To Whom It May Concern: My wife and I have reviewed your report with great disappointment — with such disappointment, in fact, that only after two straight weeks of so…
Author: DJ Lunan The policewoman eyed me sternly through the crosshairs of her pistol. Her blue uniform wet from the remnants of the time blizzard I’d arrived with. Her free hand flat-palming to di…
Author: Arkapravo Bhaumik “ … according to them, GOD was a superior being who cared for their well being and could undo their wrong-doings. Most of their morality was related to GOD. They often gat…
Author: Jae Miles, Staff Writer Confined in a 4-metre cube with nothing but my thoughts for company. Poor conversation and haunting memories by day, convoluted dreams by night. The dreams are too d…
Author: Hari Navarro, Staff Writer The woman, who’d run to the farthest edge of a star system to find who she was, contracted into herself as she read the message and discovered that, perhaps, she …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…