In the quiet libraries of the orbital ship known as Eternal, where the sunlines painted everything in honeyed amber, Dr. Elias Vey paced the vast stacks of data that were mostly forgotten. He was a man of solitude and normally few regrets, a physicist who had once dreamed of mapping the universe’s hidden heart of … Continue reading The Memories Between the Stars
A24’s Backrooms (2026), directed by Kane Parsons (the YouTube creator behind the viral series), brings the internet’s unsettling liminal spaces to theaters. Released May 29, the film follows a therapist (Renate Reinsve) venturing into a bizarre dimension of endless yellow rooms and buzzing lights to rescue her missing patient (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Mark Duplass and others … Continue reading ‘Backrooms’: Internet Lore Meets Cinema
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune saga reaches its climax with Dune: Part Three, adapting Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah. The film is scheduled for release on December 18, 2026. Set years after Part Two, it follows Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) as Emperor, grappling with the consequences of his power amid political plots, a galaxy-wide holy war, and prescience. … Continue reading Dune: Part Three – Villeneuve’s Epic Conclusion
Vampire in the bar eating peanuts, had gone upstairs to check caskets. As the flattened chords of B-flat blues wandered through her oak pollen-filled nostrils, she awoke with lace around her body. The priest was a Martian with a love for whiskey. He took confession at the corner table. Despite vampire's tastes in blood, he … Continue reading Story: Carbonated, by Tom Grayhorse
Our story begins with a series of extraordinary events. The first involved a small mouse that burrowed through an inch of steel at the base of a street lamp. After biting its way through, the mouse leapt up a series of wires and, reaching the top, rewarded itself by nibbling away on a juicy red … Continue reading Pink Goo, by Steven Lombardi
Aliens' attack Kills less of population Then we do ourselves * * * Black hole Pulls spaceship To the dark side * * * Buried under Mars For millions of secret years Lies Earth's history * * * New robots for sale With Feelings or No-Feelings -- I could not decide * * * The … Continue reading Five Haiku, by Denny E. Marshall
“Good afternoon, Mr. Whitaker, Charlie,” said the waitress, nodding her head at the old man and young man sitting across from each other in the red booth. “What will you boys be ordering today?” The waitress was perhaps a bit too bright and perky for her age, Carl thought, as he squinted down at the … Continue reading The Final Request, by Sheri Rosen
“What still separates us from the gods,” Doctor Lohmann said, a little testily, “is processing power.” He sipped his glass of sherry, out of habit, and instantly regretted it. “Yes, yes,” replied the young software engineer, whose glass was already three-quarters empty, “that detail. But in theory we can create minds like ours, beings with … Continue reading Making Minds, by Sean Goedecke
Mick McLoren was quite an ordinary sort of guy. He was married, had two children, and had held the same clerical job for more than 17 years. He owned a house on the outskirts of London and spent all of his Sundays reading the Sunday newspapers. Like everybody else in his neighborhood, he left the … Continue reading Encounter at Midnight, by Irene Maschke
(Editor's note: The following story is a sequel to "Mutant XX Embryo".) There is no visible light in the horizontal passage that stretches away toward the harbor underground. Two pirates left several minutes ago in search of a way out. Silence is growing to a ringing in the ears of the rocket-van crash survivors, who … Continue reading Embryo Transfer, by Edward R. Heard
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