scifi

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,...

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...

Insignificance by Ryan Priest The worst phone call a single guy could possibly imagine at 6:13 a.m. An unknown voice speaking in that terse, military grammar, which they think is so esteemed but rings...

Hotep by Evan Kaiser To the Captain’s immense irritation, Hotep ignored the show. The Science Officer was in the field, preoccupied. The performance was The Captain’s own. Surrounded by the everyone else, he was...

The Arrival by Alastair Millar They’d had to go in blind, of course. Oh, HD 40307 had seemed like a good bet: the seventh planet out had been deemed so likely to be habitable...

Blorb by Jon Moray           Author’s Note: This story was inspired by a real-life event that happened in 1974, where a family found a sphere on their property. The sphere in this story, unlike...

The Auspex File by Patricia Bohnert aus·pex n. pl. aus·pi·ces (ôsp-sz)An augur of ancient Rome, especially one who interpreted omens derived from the observation of birds. Chapter One: The County Social Services Office “Auspex,” she tapped her pencil on...

Neighborly ’Til the End by Michael D. Hilborn             On the evening the asteroid was calculated to hit the earth, Jim dumped his leaves in Frank’s yard. Frank, who had only been half-watching the...