An eclectic mix of all flavours of genre fiction
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a fictional excerpt from a fictional law school textbook, describing the conviction of a man for murdering alien life during humanity’s accidental first contact with them. We hope readers find...
Money Problems by Nicholas WoodsA Level Head Story Some mornings start off slow and light and easy. Perhaps when he was a kid, or during his time in college, every morning was simple. Delicate....
Vexed to Nightmare by Jon Adcock “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process, he does not become a monster.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche “Hell is empty, and all the devils are...
Beyond Pluto by James Moran When Beyond Pluto returned to Cape Canaveral one hundred years after its launch, the only surviving organisms onboard were a large lizard and an even larger catfish. All that...
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...
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,...
Making the Leap by John Sheirer “Go away,” Wendy Distoff mumbled as the knock on her door arrived just before three a.m., right around the time she seriously considered dropping out of graduate school...
Insignificance by Ryan Priest The worst phone call a single guy could possibly imagine at 6:13 a.m. An unknown voice speaking in that terse, military grammar, which they think is so esteemed but rings...