Not Who I Thought I Was by Mitchel Montagna
Not Who I Thought I Was by Mitchel Montagna The day I learned Bergin had died, at 50, I heard his terrified voice again, cursing me like few ever have. We had bunked together...
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S.O.S. by Keith Soares
S.O.S. by Keith Soares Okay, I admit you almost got us. But we’re leaving, and we’re not coming back. So whenever you return from gallivanting through the stars, you’ll find the place as empty...
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QB1 by Frederick Foote
QB1 by Frederick Foote He was a seventeen-year-old black as sin, boy with a smile that would light up the Coliseum. At six feet two inches and one hundred eighty pounds with exceptionally long...
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Just Basic Biology by James Rumpel
Just Basic Biology by James Rumpel On a cold spring Saturday morning, Kyle Emerson woke up with an unexplainable desire to go to Utah. The impulse grew in intensity as he prepared for the...
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Uncontacted by Matt Hlinak
Uncontacted by Matt Hlinak Georgia leaned against the bar and wiped the sweat from her brow. The grandmotherly bartender hobbled over. Georgia ordered a bottle of water in passable Portuguese. The bartender nodded and...
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The Future Vault by Harrison Kim
The Future Vault by Harrison Kim Neil, the wide faced, fast walking school bully, and inquisitive fifteen year old skinny shouldered Cal, waded together through black, thick water, along a tunnel dark canal far...
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Curveball by DL Shirey
Curveball by DL Shirey Ravé Eloh was born a bit wider than the other babies. Not fatter, wider. The doctor told his mother that Ravé’s body was made up of two conjoined twins who...
Road Rage by Keith Soares
Road Rage by Keith Soares “Pretty impressive numbers, aren’t they, Babe?” Rex says, flashing a wink. He thinks he’s subtle as he scans sideways across her curvaceous frame, but she knows. “Didn’t see,” she...
Infinite Loop by James Rumpel
Infinite Loop by James Rumpel 4:43. Allan didn’t want to look at the oversized digital numbers on the desk clock. He didn’t have to. It always started at 4:43. He had lost track of...
Do Us Part by A. Elizabeth Herting
Do Us Part by A. Elizabeth Herting The body floated like a cork on top of the lake, bobbing and dipping along with the current. It was impossible to say how long it’d been...
Your Child by Tim Frank
Your Child by Tim Frank As Rostov’s eyelids inched open, caked with the gunk of dried tears, a shooting pain angled down from his wrist and along his arm. He was chained to the...
Kung by Connor Lee Winters
Kung by Connor Lee Winters Chapter 1 I took the Rainmaker by the throat and raised a fist. “Tell me what I need to know, old man.” Steel spikes slid from my knuckles. He...
The Kidnapping of Lillian Palace by Charline Poirier
The Kidnapping of Lillian Palace by Charline Poirier We parked on the patch of gravel next to the stairs to the cabin. Inside, I switched on the light in the windowless bedroom, then returned...
Transferred by Anoop Anthony
Transferred by Anoop Anthony Dr. Sanil Cherian sat slumped at his desk and thought longingly about going home and getting drunk out of his mind. For this was his daily routine — he left the...
The PFL by James Rumpel
The PFL by James Rumpel Despite the simplicity of its name, Alvera Space Port Lounge was the preferred gathering place of the most powerful beings in the galaxy. Devoid of the limits of time...
Licorice by Doug Hawley
Licorice by Doug Hawley I had been working in the University of the Filipinas anthropology department for several years, when I got the break of my career. I was awarded a decent sized grant...
The Woman Who Had Many Names by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan
The Woman Who Had Many Names by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan “Deleir Khan has bought a new mare and a Bengali woman.” This news murmured through the square where villagers gathered to wag their tongues....
