"A ship landed at the port!" Danny said, pacing frantically. "I saw it! I know I did! This one is real!" "How long has it been since your last episode, Danny?" "I'm not seeing things! Not this time." Danny whirled about to confront Leslie. "I'm sure you're not," Leslie agreed as she appeared. She hugged … Continue reading “Sane in This Present Madness” by Tamara Wilhite
Dear Editor: I've just added your great site to my links section, amazed I haven't come across you before. I run a site for readers and writers of alternative fiction called Authoretica.com. Kind Regards, Marcus
[Illustration: New illustration created for the archive; the original artwork, “Paradox” © 2005 by Ellie Jane Tull, has been lost.] Ahmed Cohen is standing on the edge of the building looking down through the hundred metres of thin air which is, at the moment, the only thing separating him from something very wide, flat, and … Continue reading “Paradox” by Michael A. Kay
← Back to the beginning of Paradox He stepped away from the edge. * * * 3rd March Today I received a new patient. Young Mr. Ahmed Cohen (nb: something is odd about that name, research) is a strange and challenging case. He was persuaded from jumping off a building to certain death two days … Continue reading Paradox, by Michael A. Kay: He Stepped Away from the Edge
[Illustration: New illustration created for the archive; the original artwork, “Lab Rat” © 2005 by Patrick Stacy, has been lost.] 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 … Continue reading “Lab Mice” by George J. Condon
[Illustration: New illustration created for the archive; the original artwork, “Blueface” © 2005 by Zac Lowing, has been lost.] 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 … Continue reading “Tunguska Retro” by E.S. Strout
[Illustration: New illustration created for the archive; the original artwork, “Darfang” © 2005 by Patrick Stacy, has been lost.] 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 … 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
"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 defect had caused the cranium to develop … 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.
