Illustration: “Lab Rat” by Patrick Stacy © 2005 Michael Delaney was in his cubicle at Consoldyne Aerospace Industries, rotating a view of a new jet engine design on his workstation, when his telephone rang. He released the computer mouse and picked up the phone receiver. "Delaney speaking." "Michael, it's Kay Dunston." It was his girlfriend's … Continue reading “Lab Mice” by George J. Condon
Illustration: “Blueface” © 2005 by Zac Lowing Einstein’s theory of relativity is not just conjecture, Mulder. - Dana Scully Friday, July 11th, 2008: Message encoded 0923 hours EDT this date. Top Secret. NASA/Hubble Telescope complex reports unusual configuration of bogeys approaching solar system from Sagittarius region. Speed near or in excess that of light. Azimuth, … Continue reading “Tunguska Retro” by E.S. Strout
Illustration: “Darfang” © 2005 by Patrick Stacy. Peter Beckin was positive he’d never been so cold in his life. Or this scared. The tunnel stretched for half a kilometer through the dark reddish rock, curving in a downward slope to disappear in a blue glow of lighting tubes that illuminated the mine. He paced back … Continue reading “Darfang” by John Cowan
Dear Editor: Your readers may remember my story "Searching for the Ferryman", published in Planet last year. "Ferryman", together with all of my other previously published short stories, have been gathered into a collection titled Retribution and other Reactions. In addition, several new stories were written especially for the collection. It is available from Equilibrium … Continue reading Author: Derek Smith
Illustration: “Scanman” © 2005 by Romeo Esparrago. "We used his soul to mend the hole bound the fabric of time..." When he first came to us, his mind was contorted by conflicting ripples of thought. His tiny body arrived packaged carefully in amniotic fluid, the limbs curled and foetus-like, the head grossly expanded. A genetic … Continue reading “Elevator to Eternity” by Greg Guerin
Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. Red sky at night, sailors take fright. Red sky at midday, sailors completely freak out and look for a new line of work.
Illustration: "Dancing Flame" by Steve Cartwright (c) 2005 Five black candles were set on the points of a pentagram, in the center of which stood a lonely, desperate young man obsessed by the occult and the black arts. In his mind, necromancy seemed the only way to obtain that which he desired: friends who respected … Continue reading “The Magic Crystal” by Joe Vadalma
Illustration: "Joes vs. The Cat" by Romeo Esparrago (c) 2005 There were twelve of us. Just twelve, and no more. We lived in the box, only let out once every 365 days. The fresh air revived us, barely enough to sustain our life throughout the long year. One year, we were put away on a … Continue reading “Just Twelve, and No More” by Danielle Ste. Just
U, Robot sat in a room. (As will be learned later, it is here that U stopped reading) It was a big room, not that size was important, which it wasn’t. After all, the size of the room had nothing to do with the size of the robot, nor with how important the robot was, … Continue reading “U, Robot, and The Totally Unremarkable Paper” by NoMan (A.L. Schuhart)
Illustration: "ET Kid Gets Rocket" by Steve Cartwright (c) 2005 When the Solinarians asked me to save their planet, I told them it would cost at least $10,000,000,000,000 credits. “Plus expenses,” I added. We’d met for lunch at Hammerhead Hank’s Intergalactic Multi-Ethnic Bar and Grill, and I was eating the Telexu squid burger with pickled … Continue reading “If You Don’t Help Us, We’re Doomed” by Cole Haddon
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