By Mark J Rankin

I shuffled over to my desk, coughing up blood as I moved. I had ceased to bother wiping my mouth, content to let the fluid dry on my lips and chin. Collapsing into my

By Joseph Sullivan

“It’ll be ready soon, won’t it?”

“Hush!”

For Reltanna Lirane, wayward wizard, brewing potions was never the quickest of tasks. It rankled her enough

By James Callan

From a dusty corner in the techno tomb, she stirred to life, animated by a freak, anomalous surge igniting her circuit-forged soul. It touched them all — that erratic,

By Jemma Pollari

The day before the end of the world was announced, Raina and Harry waited, watching, in their government-appointed apartment. Below, activity silenced by thick glass

By Fendy Satria Tulodo

They say democracy never dies, but in the deepest pits of hell, even that’s a lie.

Senopati didn’t know why he had been chosen, only that his name had

By Simon Petrie

Thanks to the 2040 raw milk amnesia pandemic, many people have already forgotten what it was like to live through that mercifully brief stretch in the mid-2030s when the

By Derek McMillan

“The project  involves looking forward in time 200 years to witness the election. We can access the internet of the future,” Tilly began, “I have done a

By Ashley Cracknell

Are you tired of having your best ideas ignored? Are you burnt out after seeing yet another project fail despite your warnings? Is your office nickname,

By J.S. O’Keefe

And now is showtime. 

At 2:01 p.m. the manager comes out to the parking lot and roars into a bullhorn, “We’ve got over two hundred tomatoes. Only one per

By AE Reiff

“The early morning smell in those purple woods…something aromatic, spicy, yet very cold, very thin, tingling at the back of the nose — something that did to the sense of