Short Stories

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.

Reading Time: 6 minutesA young girl devised a plan to get even with her brother.

Reading Time: 4 minutesHorror in an undersea refuge with an acrostic and deliberate reference to Shakespeare thrown in for good measure.

Reading Time: 9 minutesPeople were dying faster than souls could leave.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reading Time: 36 minutesMeet Leo. Experiment, child, or monster? What makes him beautiful is that he is not human. He’s better.

Reading Time: 6 minutesA tale of two sisters too close.

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.

Reading Time: 7 minutes“Theirs is not to question why. Theirs is but to do and die.”

Reading Time: 12 minutesIf something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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.

Reading Time: 7 minutesIt was the plague that kept on giving; now it’s giving advice.

Reading Time: 7 minutesA toy guards the last DNA material of the human race.

Reading Time: 17 minutesA ballerina who’s always dreamed of the spotlight finds herself in the shadows when she makes a dangerous deal with a ghost.

Reading Time: 17 minutesWhat happens when meeting the star of your favorite childhood show and everything goes awry?

Reading Time: 4 minutesA new take on the traditional space aliens arrive on Earth story – I hope you like it!

Reading Time: 9 minutesAn exploration of that arcane quantum realm where one skids and slides between decision.

Reading Time: 12 minutesNot all people shopping in a store are what they seem to be…..

Reading Time: 5 minutes27th of August, 2086
Even in the future, you can’t take tomorrow for granted.

Reading Time: 8 minutesPaul must escape a case of mistaken identity in a sci fi con.

Reading Time: 12 minutesA Shingon Buddhist successfully accomplishes Sokushinbutsu, the practice self-mummification. Once achieved, however, what initially appears to be confirmation of that philosophy turns out to be something quite unexpected.

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the battle of man’s stomach versus his immortal soul, the stomach wins every time.

Reading Time: 11 minutesTom might not have emotions but he has brains and creativity that go a long way managing timeless evil.

Reading Time: 10 minutesThe stage is hers alone. But something is waiting in the wings.

Reading Time: 24 minutesA recent member of Faerie’s nouveau riche attempts to get his hands on an elusive status symbol but in the process gets a little more than he bargained for.

Reading Time: 12 minutesIs having everything you have ever wanted or desired as good as it is supposed to be? What if it is more of a curse than a blessing?

Reading Time: 19 minutesWhen Hanna gets her acceptance letter to magic school, she’s willing to risk everything, including her gift, to join the ranks of the Guild.

Reading Time: 12 minutesA young girl befriends a mysterious and somewhat grotesque boy who, unbeknownst to anyone else, has taken up residence in her family’s home.

Reading Time: 25 minutesAn undead assassin for an alternate historical Aztec empire pursues a rebel cult leader across a speeding train. To accomplish his mission, he must overcome not only dangerous enemies, but the truth of his own nature as well.

Reading Time: 12 minutesShe promised to wait for Jonas Romany. Using his education heartbroken Jonas found a way to hurt the entire community because the mosquitoes were taking too long to do the job.

Reading Time: 14 minutesA young boy in San Francisco’s Chinatown faces a fearsome monster emerging straight out of ancient Chinese legend.

Reading Time: 7 minutesFuture scientists try to avert a devastating plague which will take place in year 2020 by sending Zeitnauts back to 2019 to alert world governments.

Reading Time: 10 minutesMarta understands. She talks me out of my depression. It’s not like I’m a merchant banker. I’m not a CEO for an Armament Firm or Fossil Fuel Company, she says. I don’t send kids off to war or lobby politicians. I’m not a full time monster like those guys, just part time.