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Saving Harold by John Timm

Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up to a previous science fiction story published by us, that can be read by clicking the link: “A Meeting of the Minds by John Timm” Saving Harold by...

The Funk by Miles Whitney

The Funk by Miles Whitney It looked like a head. Then Megan saw a blackened hand sticking out from the dirt. The sod overhung the steep creek bank where the body parts protruded, grassy...

Barbarossa of Seville 4 by Matt Mordecai

Barbarossa of Seville 4 by Matt Mordecai The Mayfield Galleria, fusty jewel of the backwater planetoid Seville 4, was closed for the day. Glancing across the peeling, hair-strewn lino to the doorway of his...

The Best View in the Bar by J.D. Strange

The Best View in the Bar by J.D. Strange The moon shone down on the city like a spotlight in a darkened theater. Shadows danced and demons lurked in every corner of The Plaza....

Take My Place by Nicholas Woods

Take My Place by Nicholas Woods It was five days before the accident, and Alexander could recall a menacing feeling in his gut that later he deduced as a warning. Whether from his body,...

Ice Coach by James Fitzsimmons

Ice Coach by James Fitzsimmons People gathered at the pound of frozen hooves. Orchard owners anticipated low hanging fruit. Farmers imagined undulating fields. Children awaited ice chips. Inside the Silversnake jail, Constable Hank Jeffords...

Beggars Would Ride by James C. Clar

Editor’s Note: Read the previous adventure of the two Hawaii Police Detectives by clicking the link: “The Way the Cookie Crumbles by James C. Clar” Beggars Would Ride by James C. Clar “Sympathetic Magic...

Warehouse no. 4 by Caroline Taylor

Warehouse no. 4 by Caroline Taylor After all these years, the place still smells of coffee. It’s nearly overwhelmed by the stench of urine, feces, and dead animal, but it’s there. And now I...

Making the Leap by John Sheirer

Making the Leap by John Sheirer “Go away,” Wendy Distoff mumbled as the knock on her door arrived just before three a.m., right around the time she seriously considered dropping out of graduate school...

The Raisin Man by Dann Wonser

The Raisin Man by Dann Wonser I bet you anything my mom is better than yours. You probly don’t believe me, so I’m gonna prove it, and you’re gonna wish your mom was as...