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29 May 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor
Recently, I announced the re-launch of a multi-author speculative fiction anthology book series I edited and published nine years ago. I decided to re-launch the books for several reasons, but one question I’ve been asked since making this decision i...
28 May 2023 10 minute read 1 comment NukeAbe
This is a real story. Or at least as real as any story really is. Welcome to the Post-Truth World. The Age of Spin. The fine line between fiction and fact is getting finer. Please don’t believe anything on the internet. Always D.Y.O.R. This is just a...
27 May 2023 2 minute read 10 comments Allen Taylor
In 2014, I hit upon an idea that I thought was two rungs short of genius (it's the story of my life, falling short of genius). In all seriousness, I thought I'd put out a call for submissions for writers in the speculative fiction genre to send me st...
27 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… The Great Lower Sea. In prose poetical and spare, the Innulians have brooded upon its obsidian-salt gleam, long since before men and women first strode upright, and bartered their souls away to the gods. Its aspect is treac...
26 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The first days after Dora’s release from her prison we didn’t leave, we celebrated. She was overflowing in joy and gratitude for her newfound powers. It wasn’t quite like being released, it was much more. She’d been confined her whole conscious li...
26 May 2023 11 minute read 0 comments Jeanne_writes
Lev and Alexei stood outside Boris’s dilapidated mansion for the second time in one night. “Why the hell are we back here?” Lev asked. Anxiety began to lumber to its feet as he remembered what happened inside just hours ago. Alexei ran a hand through...
23 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This was disturbing news and completely unexpected. Ted asked if he could examine her cluster in the basement of the complex. That would give him some idea of how much of her was still working. He might even be able to restore sectors that were do...
22 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The next day we drove across the Bay Bridge to the campus. Ted knew it well. That’s where he worked as a tech on the goggles. I put my gun belt on and slung a machine gun over my shoulder just in case and we walked straight into a crowd of glass w...
21 May 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Xenobia It wasn’t hard to find this camp from all the details he’d given. They weren’t in hiding either. I heard the sound of children playing before I came to the bend in the gravel road that led to their camp. I strolled right up to it on my hor...
18 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I suppose my story starts back in two thousand twenty four. My son was two and my daughter six. I had a beautiful wife and a beautiful house right on a beach in Santa Cruz. I’d already made my fortune in the tech industry and at thirty my future s...
