Reading Time: 4 minutesRosie O’Connell smelled only dust where once there had been life.

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: 2 minutesJenny hangs the traps every sunset. She measures the string against her arm and wraps it twice around each jar tied with a double knot. She hangs them from the strongest branches of the big dead oak on Hangman’s Hill.

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: 4 minutesThere is something special about desert at night: A dark-grey sea of emptiness stretched before us, with nothing but sand dunes and tall, sharp rocks for miles around. If we watched closely, we’d see it was crawling with life, with snakes, scorpions, and other little nightmares, but I kept my eyes on the road, and the hitchhiker – Joey – stared at the sky.

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: 3 minutesThe oldest mask shop in Venice has a mask for everything, and the owner will take whatever you have to offer.

Reading Time: 4 minutesShe flails her arms and legs against the straps that bind her to a wooden chair in the middle of the boutique.