We run through the mud, dragging shame and fear and shouts of “Retreat!” with us. I sidestep shell holes and almost-corpses calling out to us in our own English and, sometimes, French. A comrade’s mechanized gun-arm reaching for help slathers a black oil handprint on my pants. He’s Diesel Battalion, like me. His prone body […]
Read more "The Grandest Ship You’ll Ever See In Your Life"His paperwork is finally complete. Dr. Colin Diaz shuts down his computer, and the Da Vinci Operating System. He has just performed a septal myectomy on a Hungarian man four thousand miles away from the remote surgical suite in the basement of his Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home. The dead computer screen is a black mirror, […]
Read more "connection_lost"“We’re sorry. The customer you are trying to reach is unavailable. Please try…” “You gotta be fuckin kidding me.” Krystal Horton ends her call in disgust. She has been trying to contact her mother, her brothers, her father, her friends for the past hour-and-a-half. She’s down to calling every contact in her phone, […]
Read more "Destroyer of Worlds part VI: Reshith"Cadging the drugs was easy. The requirements? A gun, and an inattentive dealer.
Read more "DRUG R.I.P."Teleportation Experiment: Failure. Subject disappeared. Observing engineers also disappeared. All missing. Presumed dead.
Read more "The Golden Ratio or: Notes from a Tech"There were so many of them: stumbling, clawing, their teeth gnashing for a bite of my flesh. I never killed one before. I’ve just killed six. My bloody hands paint crimson the finest bottle of water I ever drank.
Read more "The Pure"“The eighteen carats are but the accouterment of this fabulous ring,” the jeweler said, handing Prince Ashton the quantum magnifier. In the diamond he saw: Galaxies! Stars! A planet…a mountainside chateau, Ashton within, appraising the diamond engagement universe.
Read more "The Happiest Girl in the Universe"Cleveland Floyd guns his car up the driveway adjoined to the house he grew up in. His beat-to-shit ’78 Cutlass careens up it so quickly the front bumper bounces off the base of the uphill driveway, skidding to a halt by the side door of the blue and white-trimmed ranch-style house. He leaps from the […]
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