Hotep by Evan Kaiser
Hotep by Evan Kaiser To the Captain’s immense irritation, Hotep ignored the show. The Science Officer was in the field, preoccupied. The performance was The Captain’s own. Surrounded by the everyone else, he was...
Fiction
Glenna by Lara McKusky
Glenna by Lara McKusky A plate of French toast dotted with powdered sugar slid in front of Glenna, knocking her smartphone aside. Eyes locked on her breakfast, Glenna’s hand shot out to catch the...
The Arrival by Alastair Millar
The Arrival by Alastair Millar They’d had to go in blind, of course. Oh, HD 40307 had seemed like a good bet: the seventh planet out had been deemed so likely to be habitable...
Fly Away Peter, Fly Away Paul by Paul Kimm
Fly Away Peter, Fly Away Paul by Paul Kimm I’m eighteen and it isn’t a good time between me and my mother. In turn that means it’s not good between me and my father....
Factory Theodicy by Olivier Faivre
Factory Theodicy by Olivier Faivre Theodicy: argument vindicating God’s goodness in view of the existence of evil We’re all looking at the financial auditor hunched over his paper-thin laptop. He’s perusing the digital scorecard...
Casualty of Love in the Time of Coronavirus by Vanessa Leigh Giles
Casualty of Love in the Time of Coronavirus by Vanessa Leigh Giles Chapter 1 Until Death do us Part‘Ring, ring!’. I answered the telephone and asked, “Hello, good evening. Who’s this? “Hello.” This is Dr....
The Way the Cookie Crumbles by James C. Clar
The Way the Cookie Crumbles by James C. Clar The usually crowded streets were all but deserted. It was nearly 3:30 A.M. after all. The only people out wandering were hookers after a few...
Blorb by Jon Moray
Blorb by Jon Moray Author’s Note: This story was inspired by a real-life event that happened in 1974, where a family found a sphere on their property. The sphere in this story, unlike...
The Auspex File by Patricia Bohnert
The Auspex File by Patricia Bohnert aus·pex n. pl. aus·pi·ces (ôsp-sz)An augur of ancient Rome, especially one who interpreted omens derived from the observation of birds. Chapter One: The County Social Services Office “Auspex,” she tapped her pencil on...
Giovanni and the Bird by Cameron D. Alexander
Giovanni and the Bird by Cameron D. Alexander Jack sighed in resignation as he peered through his dusty Venetian blinds at the carload of Armani thugs. He wasn’t going anywhere in his slippers and...
