By Mandy Munro

The beat calls to me.

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“It's beginning!” I bounce excitedly on the spot, and then I grab Nick’s sweaty arm and

By Brian McAleer

It was Harold’s first time buying groceries. His wife always handled it, and the sharp looks from the women around him let him know he didn’t belong. They locked eyes

By Rick Kennett

Earlier that week and in the wee hours there’d been a burst of hellish noise from next door, just noise embedded with a hollow howling, so brief, so suddenly cut off and

By Julie Wornan

The day before the world began
The cosmos flowed with song.
All space exuded harmony
And not a note was wrong.

Bold Mars and lovely Venus
Danced in a

By Zary Fekete

At 8:01AM on Saturday, February 1st, a workman pulled his municipal truck over on Fegyvernek street, right in front of number 24, and began digging. He used a pneumatic

By M.C Feng

There are few things I enjoy more than telling guests that the gooey stuff coming out of Space Egg is what the scientists call ‘Space Smegma’. Of course, this isn’t true.

By Joseph Sullivan

“Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, your lord and master, the one, the only…!”

The star of the show could not finish his own sentence. He

By Gary Duehr

02.17.2055/13:46: Ahead I can see a strip of poplars like a zipper between two fields of corn stubble, the frozen stalks shorn off; I sense the need to descend and I do, I

By Vincent Hooper

Dorothy Gale never imagined she’d leave the barren plains of Kansas-715, a remote agrarian colony in the Orion Spur, let alone be catapulted across the galaxy by a

By Owen Godfrey

By Christian Barragan

Mari tightened her hoodie around her face as she hastened through the forested trail. Adrenaline surged through her body, yet she ensured her movements were

By E. S. Foster

The Great Tar-Lo stood before the Bor-Ti Emperor, wrinkled hands resting on his staff. His three aged eyes scoped the multitude of plasma screens blinking out snatches

By Steven Fritz

I was born with the universe. I was freed when it decoupled.

I travel at the speed of time, departure and arrival in the same moment, but in a universe aged by

By Kevin J. Phyland

Background  

Harpies are gene-spliced hybrid xenoforms from the Magenta planets.  

Possessing Excelsior®

By Brian Biswas

Note: Part One of "The Expansion of Space" appeared in