AntipodeanSF

By Christopher R. Muscato

The word Tlalim means Home

The heat does not crash, like a wave, but rises like a tide. Soon, it will flood the air and drown the land,

By Owen Godfrey

Once there was a weed floating down a mighty river. It was tumbled here and there through the water, bumped and bruised, but content because that was all it knew.

By Chantal Clearwater

“Nyah…ha…ha…ha!” He snickered inside his mind with his fingertips touching each other in an open steeple position, bending his fingers at the knuckle and

By DC Diamondopolous

Charlie didn’t have the guts to rob the drugstore in Visalia. The woman behind the counter reminded him of his mother — what a chump. His truck needed gas, oil, a

By Marti Ward

“The law is an ass!” The psychiatrist was getting a bit pink around the gills, and was clearly out of her depth.

“That's as may be, but I am a cat, and the law

By M. Kelly Peach

Harry Mezynski, carrying a twelve-pack of Astro beer and eight-pack of Crown colas, came through the side door. He was returning from his shift at the ageing,

By JS O'Keefe

Clearly, nobody heeded my warning even though I swore my healed rib was superior to any weatherman. They all had shorts and short-sleeve shirts on, sneakers instead of

By Rick Kennett

Grave-robbing?

Sure, I admit it. But I was hungry.

 I’d hit the road that day with not a cent in either my pocket or bank account and with only a

By Adam Brinckerhoff

There were two take-aways from the meeting. First, the most dangerous genetically modified bacteria in the world had been stolen from us. Second, if that

By L. E. Arnott

We bury our dead in the sky
away from the rats that horrify.
A dark journey up the mountainside
away from the valley where they died.
A distant snowcap turns