Category Archives: Fiction

The Plumes of Enceladus by Stewart C Baker   Andry (T1 minus forty hours) Just after lift-off, a man walked up behind Andry and rested one hand on the handle of her wheelchair as if he knew her. “Quite something, isn’t … Continue reading →

Not Always a Coastal Species by Sunny Chan   Mara is sixteen when they finally tell her. It’s not even because they meant to tell her, not because they thought she was mature enough to handle it, or because they owed … Continue reading →

  “I, Shigidi” by Wole Talabi   Prologue The Shrine, Ikeja, Lagos. | June 20th, 1977 | 11:46 pm.  The air was saturated with a heady mix of lust, freedom and marijuana. Aadit Kumar was sitting at an unstable table carved of … Continue reading →

Somethingness by Emil Terziev   Before his death, my father would spend most of his evenings in the library with a bottle of brandy. Its contents did not originally belong to him – all the shelves and the tomes that … Continue reading →

“Haunted” by Bud Sparhawk and Cat Rambo DATE/TIME: Long Light Years Forever Silence. The darkness enfolds me. While my mind roams free I wonder if my body remains on the station, lies asleep in a redwood hammock, or nestles in … Continue reading →

Granddaddy’s Mermaid  by David Shieh   The rain began just as Bobby stepped onto the gravel drive. The clouds had hung sodden and swollen at the valley’s rim all day, so when it finally fell, it was almost a relief.  … Continue reading →

Sweeter than Honey, Clear as a Mountain Spring by Alter S. Reiss   It was a picture-postcard day when the provincial flag went down in Sudbury, and the Ninety Stars went up.  First the Maritimes had gone, then the three … Continue reading →

The Golem-Maker of Buchenwald by Douglas J Lane   “We were told you can create a golem.” The man in the suit flicks ash from a thin black cigarette into the ash tray. Gerstmann turns from the TV behind the … Continue reading →