Portentia Clarke looked out the window and watched the cameraman struggle to get his legs into the contamination suit; he was a heavier man, and the producer and tech crew were helping out. It was five in the morning, and they weren't scheduled to begin until after nine. Four hours of preparation, all for their … Continue reading ‘Three Tears’ by Shaun Haiste
The owner of Ozymandias has just gone over the edge of the horizon, and we love it. With OzymExo, he’s taken his well-established outlandish obscurantism and gotten rid of the landish. OE’s virgin catalog is pure weird candy for the unhinged and the mutated. I promise you -- heavy rotation at Bebe Monster and Monkey … Continue reading ‘Into Exo: A Review of Oz’s New Sub-label’ by Brandon Myers
Illustration: “The Flaming Phoenix Storm” © 2007 by Junior McLean The first days were always the hardest. It had been six months since I stopped counting the days and the nights. But somehow, somehow -- I knew this was the first day. Maybe it was the black fog overhead, or the constant beat of war … Continue reading “War” by David Kerschner
Illustration: “Entropy” © 2007 by Carl Goodman I remember dying, but my earlier memories are beginning to go. Being a particle physicist gives one a unique perspective on death, particularly while participating in the greatest experiment ever. My initial thesis was to attribute my memory loss to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Our universe resists … Continue reading “Entropy” by David Such
Illustration: “Eliminate” © 2007 by Romeo Esparrago “I want everyone on that planet eliminated, Shadrach,” proclaimed Braux, the leader of the Kestel delegation. I nodded once, and with a wave of his hand he dismissed me. The species would not die as mine had. There would be a few left to start over. I always … Continue reading “The Eliminator” by Frederick G. Soper
[Illustration: “Yous Guys” © 2007 by Carl Goodman.] "What are you doing?!" a disembodied voice repeated. An intricate spiderweb of cracks fractured 2.z's anthropomorphic face, at the center of which was not an arachnid, but a word. That word was "you". It protruded from the bridge of 2.z's nose. Until that moment, 2.z had not … Continue reading “Yous Guys” by James M. Ladd
Illustration: “Newsbot” © 2007 by Carl Goodman "Dr. Fudiki, can you help us?" asked Mr. Yakito from the Advanced Robotics Laboratory in Japan. "I'm not sure. I have never observed emergent behaviour like this before. You say that you have already rebooted the machines and uploaded the original programs?" Yakito nodded. "We tried three times. … Continue reading “404 Error” by David Such
Illustration: “Ghost” © 2005 by Patrick Stacy Dan Constantine had steeled himself and thus was not at all surprised. When Lucian Renoir’s small hand came out in greeting as they stood at a side entrance of the magazine of Dan’s employ, Dan knew not to evaluate what his eyes saw. Here was a fellow, hardly … Continue reading “Nothing Like a Ghost” by Wen Henagan
Illustration: “Self-Portrait” © 2007 by Robert Sorensen The sun was sinking beyond the grotesque spires. There were times when Jacob wanted to topple them. In a few years, maybe the Venus sands will have corroded them enough that a good loud shout would fell them. Somehow, though, he doubted that. No matter how far he … Continue reading “The Crystal Tower” by Owen Crawford
Illustration: “Crop” © 2005 by D'Wayne Murphy Its endless, dreamy half-sleep was broken. It sensed movement in the firm, cool substance that it lay in. The substance shifted around it. A new thing, cold and sharp, that it had never felt before, touched its outer skin. The familiar closeness of the substance that had always … Continue reading “Crop” by William Wilde
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