By H.T. Longale

Thousands of feet below the waves, three girls glided through cold water. Their feet sunk deep into the brown ooze carpeting the ocean floor. Each clutched a seaweed net

By R. E. Diaz

His particle physics class at the Autonomous University of Madrid summarily interrupted, Father Felipe Bernal found himself chauffeured to the airport, paging through

By K. P. S. Plaha

Don’t believe the voices in your head

At the entry port, I wear the HAT

By Adam Cass

Memo: Early Spring, +34 years.

To: Jake (or whoever’s in charge there these days). 

Location:

By Lynne Lumsden Green

“Why can’t I be allowed to live my life the way I want to!” screamed Opal at her mother.

“Because what you want is lunacy.” 

Opal went all

By Julie Wornan

Characters: Robbie and Roberta, humanoid robots.

(The robots should look human but show some bit of metal or wire.)

Master: a deep disembodied

By Mehreen Ahmed

Baa always said, when the clouds look like paddy fields, that’s when you know that the harvest will be good. 

Every morning, I checked the skies for cloud

By Vahid Zakeri

He was hired by our company just recently. He was sitting at the table next to me. I was in the middle of replying to my unread emails when he said, "Have you heard

By C. A. Broadribb

Three good whiffs of Tiffini and I split up, my different spirits running in parallel through a snowy forest. Large, transparent flowers flow around and gently cling

By Daniel McKay

Archie’s body had more healed fractures than hairs. Worse than that, the hairs stand up easier than the other parts!

Gallows humour.

With his

By Joseph Sullivan

Reltanna Lirane, wayward wizard, came to be known in whatever town she stayed in as a local nuisance. Her arcane experiments often brought bizarre complications, her

By A.C. Perri

Brodie brushed his teeth over one-hundred times, his mouth, red-raw; blood pooling about his gums. His face was a hot-mess, he had washed it repeatedly until the intruder