By Wes Parish

Robert Bruce looked out the Genetics Testing Station window in panic. His last co-worker lay a metre from the door, with some genetically-modified

By A J Dalton

… we’re expanding
outwards
we’ve known for ages
the from
getting back there’s the trick
building the craft to:
cheating

By Jon Adcock

It was a diamond day. Sunlight cascaded from an achingly blue sky, and a faint, sweet smell of honeysuckle floated in the air. Sara, a young woman in

By Tim Borella

If the boss said the new guy’s name, Hempel can’t remember it. No matter. New Guy will do. The kid seems to know his way around a chainsaw, but

By Marco Herrigan

Charlotte remained silent as her fellow sisters chatted among themselves at dinner. Every now and then, another sister would give Charlotte a

By Maddison Scott

Every audience reacted with the same fervour though not always in the same way. Some cooed, some clapped or cried or became frenzied. The

By H.R. Parker

Part I

You create me from melancholy. 

Your loneliness constructs me in a dark place, unknown to other humans. My face, like

By Frederick Charles Melancon

Let’s just finish with this thought: it was all Pire’s fault. He knew it, the townspeople knew it, and if his father were alive, even

By James Callan

It was prime real estate, coveted ground. The stairwell was a perfect place to go up or down, with doors at every landing, no dead ends. It was a

By Travis Flatt

Michelle’s positioning and repositioning a large, black vinyl box, aluminum framed, like a microphone case, in our living room. When she asked to

By William Miller

I stepped into the chilly hallway, a blue glow reflecting off the wall opposite me. I picked up yesterday's newspaper and looked to the left and

By Blaize M. Kaye

My tab beeps and vibrates. There is a message from my Fotobot, the subject: “New Slideshow: Good Times!” 

The Fotobot is, according