Pinpricked
“Deep within the Gardens, in a place where even the servants refuse to go, there lies a girl of the most extraordinary beauty. Flawless pale skin, lips red and plump, and eyes with all the colors of a...
View ArticleDown
Down. I had a dream job in a city of caves. The caves were dark and damp and smelt (at best) of off milk. Where the walls of the caves met the floor, dead and dying beetles, and the husks of other...
View ArticleBad Behavior
“We’re not the ones hurting you, Ardis,” Councillor Shiteater told me at my last ‘check up’, while my bloodless fingers clawed at the chain digging into my throat. “It’s your own behavior that’s...
View ArticleLonely Explorers
Earth The radio waves ran fingers curiously along the struts that thrust skyward for them, caressed the wires that guided them in, kissed the gentle curves that reached up to wrap around them. They had...
View ArticleShiver
At this point, I’m not sure which is more likely to be the death of me: the four-armed carnivorous beasts that roam the frozen tundra around our settlement, or the boredom. Granted, the yetis are...
View ArticlePlanet of the Greens
Planet of the Greens is preparing for a fierce war. Throughout the last millennium, peace and stability was ruling and now it is on the way to being broken. the Light Greens were considered as...
View ArticleProfessor Tutweiller’s Orb
For most of the two centuries of its existence, the small town of Munjoy, New Hampshire, was a fairly typical town. True, like most towns large and small, it had its share of unusual characters and...
View ArticleChance
By Patrick Brannen Sometimes in life, you have to take a chance. Sometimes, when your life is at its lowest point, to return to your wealth, you must take a chance. Because when you take a chance,...
View ArticleThe Roundabout Abduction
By J. James Beaudoin The classification of a planet and its constituents begins as it should end: with the application of the scientific method. This was obvious to any sentience with higher-brain...
View ArticleThe Dark Planet
By Miranda Ray “Everyone present and accounted for?” Wolfman asked. The crew of the Calavera stood assembled in the loading dock of their decommissioned war vessel. The captain went down the line of...
View ArticleHyena Halloween
By Tovia Gehl It wasn’t often Ally let her beast out. Her world was populated by the werewolf bros, the charismatic sorcerers, the witch academics. They were on top of everything. The elite, the...
View ArticleGreen Men vs Green Acres
By Susan Williamson I had thrown the last bale of hay from the loft onto the truck bed and climbed down the ladder, hoping to beat the storm thundering in the distance. I jumped in the truck and...
View ArticleBest in Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Milk & Honey
By Jamie Maier She took a step forward, her feet crunching the leaves on the sidewalk. Slowly, slowly. Don’t look up, she thought. A cold wind whipped around the edge of the building. She shivered in...
View ArticleMexican Vanilla
Bowie Freeman was kidnapped by aliens on a Monday. He hated Mondays. He felt this was the only civilized attitude toward a day so far from the next Saturday. It had obviously been a bad idea to put...
View ArticleEternal Return
Awake, I pulled my quilt back, the 5:24 A.M. light from the lampposts still flooding my room, as if to highlight my failure to sleep. It wasn’t as if I had been trying that...
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