Short Stories

Reading Time: 6 minutesA man who’s forgotten everything knows only that he should stay in motion.

Reading Time: 17 minutesThere’s something strange about the lake near Lester Tarbell’s vacation cabin. Whatever is in it makes Lester just as strange.

Reading Time: 22 minutesIn Venice of dreams, a woman struggles through a nightmare and saves the city by damning herself.

Reading Time: 20 minutesBodgen, a genius scientist (just ask him) from Romania, has received a fantastical letter from America, a most assuredly made-up place, that claims he has a long, lost brother who is coming for a visit. Bodgen doesn’t believe a word of it, of course.

Reading Time: 25 minutesIn 1958, a young editor corresponds with a veteran science-fiction writer.

Reading Time: 8 minutesThe hardest working mage who ever lived will do anything to pass his English exam.

Reading Time: 12 minutesThe amputation was the easy part.

Reading Time: 11 minutesWhat happens below decks, stays below decks in this horror/humor mashup of the biblical account of Noah’s ark and the doomed voyage of the Demeter in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Reading Time: 5 minutesShe was eight when her body rotted away. A virus. They were able to save her brain, and for the last ten years she’s been living inside an eight-year-old android body.

Reading Time: 15 minutesThe creatures were out there, somewhere, waiting for him. But could one stranded human defeat hundreds of hungry aliens?

Reading Time: 6 minutesA money-grubbing politician usurps the limited resources of the town they just burned to the ground. The Boatmen has another idea.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe firstborn of every family is called up to service, in the name of protecting the grace and honour of this Unified Earth.

Reading Time: 4 minutesHis mother-in-law told him he’d be rewarded for hurting her daughter. He thought she meant she was happy that she was gone. Too late, he realized he was wrong in his interpretation of reward.

Reading Time: 18 minutesWhen Gordon finally gives in and gets fitted for Carbon 14 contact lenses, he has to learn how to see the world differently.

Reading Time: 13 minutesIt takes place in a futuristic Rio-São Paulo megalopolis, where old and sick people die and nobody cares. Nobody except the protagonist.

Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen Dave witnesses a deadly hit-and-run from two storeys up, it triggers a chain of events that makes him question reality.

Reading Time: 21 minutesIn near-future England, teenage Naomi daydreams of dating a boy from the lunar Colony.

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen Grandma Minerva is bitten trying to buy a special Christmas present for her grandchildren, she is determined to still have a wonderful holiday before she turns.

Reading Time: 16 minutesCan love blossom between an man and a low-gravity spider in the most dangerous parking lot in the Galaxy?

Reading Time: 16 minutesThe old metalworks where Seth’s father was a Robotics technician before the war drafted him; is now a graveyard. He sneaks back inside, never expecting to find Robots, a T-Rex and a communication bot. It is perfect until the police discover them; they are immediately sent for destruction.

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn a war-torn world of brutal fighting between greens and technocrats, three orphaned children collide with destiny. A single decision will define their lives.

Reading Time: 5 minutesAnca is lonely and she knows it’s because she is different, but when she had a bad accident she encounters somebody that could be a friend.

Reading Time: 12 minutesJulia, an elderly woman, is haunted by dementia. Though Alzheimer’s might explain why she can’t remember picking the flowers in the hallway or putting the kettle on, she’s starting to believe she’s being haunted by something else entirely.

Reading Time: 7 minutesMina struggles with her gift of the Valiance dance. Her life gets a moment of quiet when her heart is touched by a lonely child. It is not what gifts we are given, but how we choose to use them.

Reading Time: 6 minutesAfter the earth has been radiated by nuclear war, survivors move below the surface and build a new society underground, only going to the surface once a year to visit the one last tree that still remains.

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen your species is prey, you can never let your guard down. Even when you’re walking home.

Reading Time: 12 minutesA sleepy town in rural Alabama holds many secrets, not all of them worth digging up.

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe lines separating life, death, and laundry are thinner than you think.

Reading Time: 15 minutesWhen the unsuspecting pharmacologist bumps into her former flame in a South London pub, she learns that the very future of the planet may depend on the outcome of her conversation with the drunken professor.

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a time when death is no longer final, how many ghosts walk among us?

Reading Time: 4 minutesMarilia has a beast to conquer. It may not have scales or sharp teeth, but it’s just as terrifying all the same. Will this strange metal machine consume her, or will she find a glimmer of hope to hold onto?

Reading Time: 9 minutesThe ghost of Edgar Allan Poe gets more than he bargained for.

Reading Time: 30 minutesA young woman purchases a set of beads from an old crone and the adventure of her life begins.

Reading Time: 10 minutesA lonely alien seeks friendship and fulfillment at an Alaska farmers market.

Reading Time: 10 minutesWhen Dominic saved his sister from a monster, he didn’t anticipate he would become one too. Now, he might be the most dangerous creature in the woods and if he doesn’t get help, he could hurt the people he loves.

Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen Olivia gets bored in class and doodles a stickman on her arm, she has no idea what she’s in for. When it is brought to life by a rival girl, everything changes.

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe New Gods were cast out two hundred and sixty-two years ago when humanity enacted the Great Blackout. We had already lost almost everything. Rumors have persisted ever since that they would find a way to return and finish what they started.

Reading Time: 7 minutesSometimes it’s the little things that come back to bite us.

Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you had the power to take down your opponents on the soccer field simply by touching them, would you?

Reading Time: 14 minutesAlone on a foggy day, among the ruins of an old New England town, a runner has an encounter with the ghost of a small child asking for help.

Reading Time: 12 minutesAn epistolary account of alien discovery on Earth over time.

Reading Time: 12 minutesFlea markets have gizmos, thingamajigs and other useful things.

Reading Time: 24 minutesCrossing into a parallel universe is traumatic, but being a good father and learning to let go requires treatment.

Reading Time: 17 minutesLate one night, an orphan sees a strange monster, a man, patiently waiting just outside the minister’s home.

Reading Time: 4 minutesOnce there was a giant robot. Inside the giant robot was a boy.

Reading Time: 9 minutesIn the land of the blind, the one-eyed man can help.

Reading Time: 5 minutesAfter literally sucking the life out of her abusive husband, a ghost wife tells her story of ruin and retribution.