Vol 16

Getting Rosie Laid by Bill Tope

Getting Rosie Laid by Bill Tope Rosie, my girlfriend Cathy’s younger sister, had over the past year been spending most of her weekends with us at our apartment near the college. Nearly a month...

Golden Gate by Marc Egnal

Golden Gate by Marc Egnal The knocking on my office door seemed urgent and insistent, at least from where I sat. They say dogs have particularly keen hearing. Add to that short list private...

Alpaca Sunrise by Jon Wesick

Alpaca Sunrise by Jon Wesick Detective Dirk Steelcage hated knitting even more than he hated Brussels sprouts and he hated Brussels sprouts. He was the kind of cop who didn’t let sissy rules like...

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...

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...