The Mad Scientist’s Brother
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.
The Unfinished Novels of Mandrake Fluke
Reading Time: 25 minutesIn 1958, a young editor corresponds with a veteran science-fiction writer.
Tik Tok Man
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe five second burst of sound cycled over and over, breaking against his thoughts like waves against a levy, overwhelming him, washing him away.
Test Amongst the Shadows
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe hardest working mage who ever lived will do anything to pass his English exam.
Unarmed
Reading Time: 12 minutesThe amputation was the easy part.
The Falls of Imoletta
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne can spend an entire lifetime searching for something, only to find it lies just beyond your grasp – and your lifetime has vanished in the blink of an eye.
Gluttony
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.
The Apotheosis of Rosie
Reading Time: 4 minutesRosie O’Connell smelled only dust where once there had been life.
Dream of Humans
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.