I Am Reanimated
Reading Time: 11 minutesAn ambitious mother reanimates her son’s corpse.
Short Stories
Mother Worked Nights
Reading Time: 5 minutesA boy struggles to come to terms with his absentee mother. His father insists it’s due to her busy work schedule, but something doesn’t seem right.
Playing House
Reading Time: 5 minutesThree sisters play a dangerous game in a house which mysteriously appeared–and which could vanish again at any moment.
Arachno Thank You
Reading Time: 5 minutesThomas makes progress with his shrink, but the process of opening up and sharing his dreams has an unintended effect.
Changeling
Reading Time: 6 minutesMarion recalls a tale her grandma told which she has never forgotten. The story of Kara O’Brien, a strange looking child who attended the village school in Connemara, Ireland, where the old lady grew up. Marion’s grandma reveals a secret that was known only by herself and her Aunt Josie. Kara O’Brien was no ordinary child.
Incandescent
Reading Time: 14 minutesSarah moves back to her old stomping grounds and buried memories return to haunt her. The only way to exorcise them is to face them head on, but she’s not sure if she’s ready to shine a light on the horror that lies within.
The Laws of Nature
Reading Time: 4 minutesTwo space prospectors, Zdenek and Sarika, encounter an unusual unknown life form in space. Due to carelessness, the first contact with it turns out to be too harsh and the situation escalates…
Simulacra
Reading Time: 10 minutesThe alarm blared. Tim Jorgensen opened his eyes and sighed. The clock was yellow. It should have been red!
Living in a buggy computer simulation is not all it’s cracked up to be.
The Sleepy Warrior
Reading Time: 14 minutesEven on the sunniest of days, a whirlwind of violence can form in the calm.
The Savage Year
Reading Time: 23 minutesIn 1968, mage Artemis West has a dull government job double-checking the bindings of ancient demons. Only someone’s just set one of them free. With the help of a teenage vagabond girl, Artemis has to catch a cosmic horror or America won’t make it to 1969.
Dumping Ground
Reading Time: 7 minutesA damaged android is abandoned on a junk world, where she finds a society of androids who had been discarded by humanity.
Ascending
Reading Time: 4 minutesDoes the value of true peace transcend the means of its own achievement?
Ye Anointed
Reading Time: 19 minutesAs many faithful gather to worship their gods, another group gather for something else.
One sees it as a sermon with a dead audience,the rest see it as an unholy sacrifice to a malevolent entity. Terrible,but necessary in order to end their suffering.
Medicated Success
Reading Time: 15 minutesMr. Frabbit is a new man on new medication. His days of hallucinating blue cats are behind him. Now he can look forward to returning to work. On his first day on the job, he is alarmed to be having hallucinations of miniature trains. This is new. Mr. Frabbit begins to question if his medication has been successful.
Sickle Claws: Hesperonychus Monstrous
Reading Time: 13 minutesThis is a story about monsters, mothers, zombies, and a dinosaur that might save or destroy the world.
Three Eight Two
Reading Time: 13 minutesWhere past and future meet, often it’s those living in the present that feel most conflicted.
Unbound, Toward Her Repose
Reading Time: 6 minutesA siren’s song offers peace amidst a terrible storm.
The Not-So-Duff Duff-Duff
Reading Time: 6 minutesButter won’t melt in her mouth – and neither, therefore, will butter cookies. An Undercover Secret Agent (upper case hers), recruited by the far-flung planets Government after a solar system-wide call for applications, brings down the Underworld (upper case theirs) by pretending to be a Pillar of Society.
A Tour of Fort Helix
Reading Time: 8 minutesBioengineering armies of killer mutants to fight the War against Evil is a growth industry in 28th Century Australia.
Reflections on a Loaf of Rye
Reading Time: 4 minutesHansel and Gretel’s love of sweets began long before they met the witch in the woods.
Hotel De Mort
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost folks say death on the premises is bad for business. For Hotel de Mort, it’s life.
Morphing Man
Reading Time: 8 minutesA telemarketing firm is struggling to make a profit. A star top biller is hired to turn the business around, but he presents a greater face of horror than the sight of a shrinking bottom line.
Hand-me-Down Days
Reading Time: 5 minutesA magical take on the pain of not fitting in, and rising above it.
The Way of Water
Reading Time: 13 minutesA woman stands two metres from a public paying water tap, dying of thirst in a water-scarce world rife with corporate/government corruption and global resource warfare.
The Inverness Soliloquies
Reading Time: 4 minutesHorror in an undersea refuge with an acrostic and deliberate reference to Shakespeare thrown in for good measure.
Releasing Hitler
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat if, one million years from now, Hitler is paroled from Hell?
Metallosis
Reading Time: 22 minutesA post-apocalyptic story that mixes cyberpunk with biopunk. It conveys the message of maintaining your humanity while surrounded by so much technology (so much that it feels that you’re becoming a cyborg yourself).
Asexuals of the Cosmos, Unite!
Reading Time: 15 minutesA darkly humorous sci-fi tale of a federation of aliens on a cosmic mission to ‘a-sex’ civilizations throughout the universe, including Earth’s. After reading this piece, you will never think of UFO abduction stories in the same way again.
The Wedding Party
Reading Time: 8 minutesFinding lonely sanctuary in the woods the protagonist finds the only company he has is the waterlogged wedding party bobbing in the pond.
The Uryuom Plight
Reading Time: 3 minutesTrapped on a backward planet hundreds of light-years from home, a brave astronaut hides in plain sight among the resident aliens and laments the dying world he left behind.
Lightning Between Your Fingers
Reading Time: 17 minutesA sordid tale of vice and corruption takes shape as Knight-Sister Arlise Dun investigates the mysterious death of courtesan Emerei Dawson.
In the Shadow of the Stars
Reading Time: 21 minutesWhen exploring abandoned wrecks within the accretion disk of a black hole Rhea, a inexperienced girl living on the salvage ship Thanaku, discovers the impossible: the body of a female human, dormant within a 100-year old container. Nobody on the ships believes it should be revived but Rhea can’t help feeling kinship with this semi-mythical creature.
Leo
Reading Time: 36 minutesMeet Leo. Experiment, child, or monster? What makes him beautiful is that he is not human. He’s better.
Before
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat happens when today’s interstellar travelers meet those that arrived before them?
Moira and Ellie
Reading Time: 14 minutesJenna can’t wait to meet her imaginary friend–but her ghost turns out to have a closer connection to her family than she imagines.
Five Things to do on the Way to the Bottom of the Sea
Reading Time: 3 minutesBenefits and pitfalls of undersea tourism exposed!
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A Mother Knows
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter fertility reached an all time low, fertile women are inseminated in an effort to save humanity. While caring for her dying child, one mother takes measure to ensure she won’t have another baby.
A Last Word
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn author must tell his three elderly leading characters that he is handing them over to someone else.
The Foot Race on PhytoLore
Reading Time: 12 minutesIf something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Heartsick
Reading Time: 17 minutesIn a world where it is illegal to be unhealthy, a young doctor must choose between her heart and the career she’s fought so hard for…
Mmanwu Festival
Reading Time: 4 minutesCentred on the Igbo Mmanwu Festival, Chinaza’s words dance between the past and present, capturing the essence of family ties and spirituality of this time of year.