Stories

Standing a mere stone's throw from the Eternal Hearth, the edifice was supposed to be a monument ...

Fr. Shaheen took a drag of his cigarrette as he stared up at the night sky. A few stars were just...

“I see we’ve got a bigger crowd than usual. Welcome, everyone, to this meeting of the Erickson Am...

The hot Texas sun beat down on the two people sitting outside the root beer stand. Only one of th...

Ron sat in an overstuffed armchair hunched over an iPad, stylus in hand. The tablet's screen cast...

“…another record-breaking afternoon, with temperatures throughout the region surpassing the 90-de...

THUMP I stood next to the wall, shifting my weight from one foot to the other, trying to ignore t...

The main core of the network stretched out before me: rack upon rack of black boxes extending int...

The golden rays of the westering sun soak into my fur, and I feel the warm sand under my palms er...

“I got some reeeeeaaal good stuff this time.” My dealer glances furtively to either side, then pu...

This was an exercise to see how quickly I could write without obsessively rereading every sentenc...

It was a tower of crap. Well, OK, it wasn't exactly crap, more processed solid waste suspended in...

He glanced nadirward through the observation window at the green and blue surface of the planet. ...

Ron stared up at the metal behemoth looming over him. A nagging itch scraped at some dark corner ...

Orbiting a dwarf planet on the edge of Partisan territory are the remains of a massive megastruct...

Tod, brushing a knot out of his tail: «Sometimes I think this coat isn't worth the hassle.» Jim: ...

The data center was enveloped in uncanny stillness. The hearthkeepers had cut the power to the wh...

“And you're the interim chief?” asked the federal councilman, his voice echoing throughout the ca...

For a few seconds I waver between turning right to head home or to cross the street to go to the ...

Jim surveyed the empty trailers around him as he sat in the lawn chair in front of his mobile hom...

”Where’s your bathroom?” I think this was the third time any of us had heard him speak since we m...

I was sitting atop her head, an arrangement she tolerated as it was the only way I could get a go...