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Its olfactory system comes online. Gideon initiates trial 152 for the integration of a human mind with a manufactured body system. Scientists peer down at Gideon in the center of the surgical suite. “Stimulus one,” he says to the crowded room. The initial compound the synthetic being detects when stimulus one activates is Mentha xRead more about The Sense of Memory by Danielle Woodgate[…]
The sea called out to me that evening as I walked along her silver shore. She spoke no words, yet I fathomed meaning in the soft hiss of waves and the cries of gulls. Come to me. Let us be as one again. As though I had barely been alive until that moment, I feltRead more about The Tides of Love by Douglas Schwarz[…]
“We’ve really solved our two-body problem,” Robin said. She started to laugh but she hated how it scratched, amplified on the suit radio. “Sh,” Aaron said. “Don’t.” Through the thick gloves she couldn’t feel the pressure of his grip, but something about his voice made it clear he was squeezing. She squeezed back, her forearmsRead more about Two Body Problem by Marie Vibbert[…]
Lily glances down at the handwritten letter. Her hand trembles as she sips lychee wine. The drink cools her throat, tingling her wrinkled skin. She recalls the day her granddaughter was born. A cherubic baby, Mei weighed ten pounds and three ounces. Lily believes Mei’s size brought good luck and prosperity upon the family. EvenRead more about Dear Poh Poh by Melissa Ren[…]
Legend has it a dose of epiphany sent Archimedes streaking naked from his bath into the streets of Syracuse shouting Eureka! Newton’s falling apple, Buddha beneath the bodhi tree, Darwin thinking up natural selection during a carriage ride; epiphany’s shaped human knowledge in blinding flashes. Of all such revelations, Soba Dee had the most profoundRead more about Soba Dee’s Epiphany by M.W. Irving[…]
I was having the worst kind of day you could have on a long-haul transport—the kind where your fusion reactor is making funny noises. Not ha-ha funny. Threatening to explode funny. Which was kind of ha-ha funny, because once you’ve been alone on a long-haul transport for 473 days with no human contact, everything isRead more about Alternative Mechanic by Victoria Brun[…]
The train slid like a silver snake across the ice-hardened tundra, the solar array on its roof soaking up the light of a dying sun. It passed barren barns and hollow homes, clusters of abandoned factories and the clutching fingers of skeletal launch towers. The last two people on the rails sat in the cab,Read more about Silver Soul and Shining Wings by Andrew Knighton[…]
Kara stared through the rain-fogged window, hoping, praying even, for escape. And, as always, escape appeared in the form of an oak door with an old-fashioned brass knob that twitched in anticipation of her touch like an overeager puppy. “Turn me!” it seemed to say as, for the first time in her seventeen years ofRead more about The Final Escape by Christine Amsden[…]
The oni blocked Mizumo’s path, looming larger than the strongest samurai, wearing a tiger-skin loin cloth. Muscles rippled under sky-blue skin. Three horns protruded from its forehead. Three-fingered hands covered its face. Elbows rested on knees wider than the length of the monk’s wakizashi blade. Mizumo fingered the sword’s pommel beneath his robes. The oniRead more about The Weeping Oni by Gordon Linzner[…]
The red “59” flashed from the band on Kena’s wrist, the intensity of its color reflecting how urgent and precious each minute, each second, was. She had given everything for this time and yet, now that she stood here in the stillness and quiet, it felt undervalued. The cocktail of aromas—the earthy spice of theRead more about Someone Who Was Loved by Craig Church[…]