An eclectic mix of all flavours of genre fiction
When Dr. Jekyll and His Wife, Sybil, Visited A Marriage Counselor by Maureen Mancini Amaturo It wasn’t her moods that confounded him. It was her impermanence. Even with his scientific background, Dr. Henry Jekyll...
The Speckled Rooster by Arthur Davis The Speckled Rooster, as he was known, stopped off at my farm while on his way back to the Big City. I had enough problems with the cows...
Going There by Ennis James Sheehan Martina Scandilla was smart. She knew she was smart. Everyone around her knew she was smart. Smarty smart smart. Smartness went before her like an escort of proud...
Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up to a previous science fiction story published by us, that can be read by clicking the link: “A Meeting of the Minds by John Timm” Saving Harold by...
The Funk by Miles Whitney It looked like a head. Then Megan saw a blackened hand sticking out from the dirt. The sod overhung the steep creek bank where the body parts protruded, grassy...
Barbarossa of Seville 4 by Matt Mordecai The Mayfield Galleria, fusty jewel of the backwater planetoid Seville 4, was closed for the day. Glancing across the peeling, hair-strewn lino to the doorway of his...
The Best View in the Bar by J.D. Strange The moon shone down on the city like a spotlight in a darkened theater. Shadows danced and demons lurked in every corner of The Plaza....
Take My Place by Nicholas Woods It was five days before the accident, and Alexander could recall a menacing feeling in his gut that later he deduced as a warning. Whether from his body,...
Ice Coach by James Fitzsimmons People gathered at the pound of frozen hooves. Orchard owners anticipated low hanging fruit. Farmers imagined undulating fields. Children awaited ice chips. Inside the Silversnake jail, Constable Hank Jeffords...
Editor’s Note: Read the previous adventure of the two Hawaii Police Detectives by clicking the link: “The Way the Cookie Crumbles by James C. Clar” Beggars Would Ride by James C. Clar “Sympathetic Magic...