scifi

Franken Cat by Doug Hawley I’ve been fairly happy since I re-animated Wendy. She wanted to leave me to get back to her bad boys after the first time I brought her back to...

War Hero by Ralph Benton Even under a fat layer of duranium Trooper ‘Lab Rat’ Reed trembled as he strapped himself into the driver’s pod of the tokatank called Nightmare. While death in a...

The Tar of Freedom by Frederick Frankenberg The peaceful and calm sensation when I found that vein in my arm with the needle flashed through my mind. My eyes opened, and I had blurry...

Welcome To The Stone Age by Sylvia Cumming Victor G. Bevens, data clerk extraordinaire, lit his midday cigarette and leaned against a potted palm outside the Natural History Museum, watching a crowd of mothers...

A Meeting of the Minds by John Timm Friday, June 13, 2025 The scientific journals were jammed with articles about it. The cable news networks couldn’t get enough of it. It had become routine...

Mouthalator 996 by Ara Hone Ansion Gilpepper stepped up onto the hoverboard tethered at the virtual platform’s edge and peeked between virtual curtains at the avatars occupying every seat in the virtual hall. The...

Eternal Flame 1933 by Douglas Kolacki May 10, 1933 The Bebelplatz lit up Berlin. The heat of fire and national fervor combined to sizzle the light rain before it touched the ground. Forty thousand...

  Love Conquers All by James Rumpel “PADDY, show me videos of people falling.” John Stewman nestled into his massage-recliner and focused on the oversized television that covered most of his living room wall....

Version 16 by B. A. Varghese Frank woke up and jolted back in his seat. His heart pounded in his skull, and his vision focused off the blur and onto the two men in...