Archive for Science Fiction
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LANGUAGING • by Jessica George
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Some of them even get rid of their mouths. Can you imagine? It gives me the creeps. The shiny, sealed skin; the tubes quietly inserted in private rooms while everybody else sits down to dinner; their unreadable expressions. Bekah shrugged when I told her and said, “Well, there are all sorts of artificial feeding methods, [...]
Science Fiction, Stories
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WOLF EMIT • by Simon Kewin 22 Comments
It was kissing Magda that made Sam destroy the universe. She wasn’t to blame. Neither was he, really. They were both just collections of subatomic particles, sufficiently complex to propagate something they perceived internally as consciousness. Still, he did blame himself. Just not enough, when it came to it, to stop himself. Going to the [...]
Science Fiction, Stories
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BAD HABIT • by Sarah Crysl Akhtar 14 Comments
Ever try to shake a bad habit? “Son of a gun,” I said to Donovan the other day, for maybe the millionth time. “No wonder you can’t keep a partner.” He laughed, as he always does, and I laughed too. It’s not like he’s not a great guy. Everyone likes Donovan. But in the end, [...]
Science Fiction, Stories
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THE MEMORY OF ROSES • by David Parish-Whittaker 12 Comments
“We’re never going home,” Al said. Juan looked up from the hologram of his wife’s rosebushes. Al was floating in front of a full wall projection of Earth. “We’ve made it this far,” Juan said, jerking his thumb at the projection. “That’s not Earth.” “Yeah, yeah, it’s an image, not the real thing. I’m laughing [...]
Science Fiction, Stories
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AS LONG AS WE’RE TOGETHER • by Oonah V Joslin 14 Comments
I had this sense of déjà vu. A frisson. A knock came at the door. I don’t have what you’d call a door, so I knew that the knock was out of time. I pressed on the panel and heard the environmental controls filter the acrid air that rushed in. A tall, blonde woman [...]
Romance, Science Fiction, Stories
