Guardian Echo

Even at 1,035mph the clouds well below Marlin crawled by. “MCO, MCO this is Guardian Echo, come in.” It said. After two years, static sounded took the sound of depression – something Marlin had never considered before. No one programmed depression into the reconnaissance plane. The coordinates were automatically read by one of Marlin’s subsystems: […]

A Blessed Curse

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. For the first hundred-fifty years as a spirit, Morgan tried any sort of method or spell to physically interact with the world if only to stop the incessant noises that haunted her. The clock in Sara’s dining room echoed throughout the cold house, and a faucet’s handle was […]

The Half Decade Anomaly

Four years ago, every person on Earth lost five years of memory. Ranzi remembers commuting on a train to London with her thermos of coffee perched in a cup holder by the window, the groomed countryside passing outside. The next moment, her coffee was gone and the same countryside looked shabby, healthy, but the landscape […]

Shut it down

“Where they fucked up, see, was thinking they’re privileged or something.” McDevitt took another hit on her ever disappearing joint. “They always thought First Contact – with capital letters, mind you – would be beamed right to them.” “Like straight to their computers or something?” “Beamed straight up their asses for all I know. They […]

The Ezekiel Colonies

None of the cults got it right in the end. The Lizard people fanatics dropped their protest signs when the Lizard people never shed their human skin. People wearing crystals for secret energy realized dinosaurs weren’t at the Earth’s core. The Illuminati turned out to just be a bunch of middle-aged white dudes taking time […]

August 4th, 2326

“Today is August 4, 2326,” a voice said waking you up, “in the city of Helsinki.” It repeated the date four times as you managed to open your eyes for the first time in… wait, in how long? “Today is the 322nd birthday of Dr. Wiggen. Today is the 412th anniversary of RB laboratory opening. […]

Red Water

Kali could’ve spotted Red Shui’s tower from miles away a few years ago. Its skyscraper height grooved on both sides like a vertical waves flowed into the Martian dirt – it seemed to be growing out of the ground. But with the dust storm now in its third year, Kali couldn’t make out anything but […]

Out of Reach

Ground control to Major Tom..

Commander Parker hung in the copula of the International Space Station, nodding his head to the song etched in his mind.

Ground control to Major Tom…

A Different Kind of Death

The future came in her blind spot at 74 miles per hour. Some tired driver, some careless teenager, or maybe April’s own fault she thought as the first nudge jolted her against the seatbelt. I should probably pull over, was her first subconscious idea as her bones began to crunch with the same ease as […]

True to Conspiracy

Julie’s phone buzzed in her pocket like a handful of bees trying to escape. Maybe someone looking for directions, she ignored both the thought and the buzzing phone. Everyone at the viewing party in her Tucson home stood around the television. Somehow the Chinese were convinced to air their Moon landing live, it was a […]