Tyler
By Steve Poling
"I wouldn’t make up shit like this, I swear," said Dennis halfway through his third beer. Scott squinted at him skeptically. "So you really want me to believe…" Dennis nodded. "That Ashram Anton has been grinding people into hamburger for the last six months. That’s right." He completed Scott’s sentence and his own beer consecutively. […]
Respect
By Stephen Catanzarite
Life is full of the bitterest ironies. I was working in the Social Club. Most of the guys were out and it was just me and Mr. D. I’m there behind the bar so I can cover the door, keeping my hands out of sight because you don’t know who’s gonna come walking in. Mr. […]
Independence Day
By Vishnu Lorax
"A Republic, if you can keep it" – Benjamin Franklin October 19, 2130 promised to be another beautiful Indian summer day in Montana as the Anderson family sat down to breakfast. "It might hit seventy," said Mr. Anderson. "I hope this weather lasts one more day until the centennial celebration." "Me too," his wife agreed. […]
Welcome to the Jungle
By Mary Madigan
Washington DC, 2084 Jerry leaned out the Aerocar window. With the kind of breathless amazement that only seven year-olds can muster, he shouted: "Mom, Dad, look! Two apes are fighting in front of the Lincoln Memorial." Bill glanced down, but at 600 meters above ground level it was hard to see very much. He put […]
Her Enemies Are Legion
By John L. Scot
The Flyovers knew them as "The Dowdies." Made them into stories to frighten their brainwashed children into line. "Be good or the Dowdies will get you." It wasn’t just an idle bluff — a way of getting the little Eichmanns of America to do their daily recitations of the Bible and the Constitution (as if […]
Hope and Whatever
By Karina Fabian
From the Journal of Melvin P. Wurster. Washington DC. The year 2032. April 1. Hired! Got a job with the National Park Service. I knew my degree in Multi-Cultural Sensitivity would finally come through. Interviewer seemed impressed with my coursework in Italian Fascist Fashion and Soviet Summer Camp Education. Now you will get hands-on training, […]
