Science Fiction
By Frank Fleming
“There is something I need to show you, something no one gets to know until he or she is officially a scientist.” Jeremy stood outside with Professor Ostrander, looking in awe at the research center bathed in moonlight. “Do you always bring out new researchers in the middle of the night like this?” Jeremy asked. […]
Temblor
By Carol Kean
The bed shakes, the window rattles in its sash. By the time Andrew fully wakes, the low rumble has stopped. He rises from the bed and walks to the pine-paneled kitchen for a glass of water tapped from Cambrian sources beneath the soil and duff of the Redwood Empire. Returning down the small hall of […]
The Ransom of Green Chief
By Stephanie Souders
It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were fishing up in Minnesota – Doug and myself – when this kidnapping idea struck us. It was a crazy idea – as Doug said afterwards, "born from a morning of righteous drinking" – but we didn’t find that out till later. […]
The Prompt Chancellor
By Robert Arrington
Let me tell a little tale that I cooked up. So sit right back and enjoy. Obviously someone failed to get the memo for we are no longer on Earth but on the Discworld. How else to explain the TelePrompter Overlord we now have versus the Uber-Brain 9999 made by MicroRonco that everyone expected? Seriously, […]
Hillary Goes to the Movies! #110
By Steven W. Aunan
Dear Diary, Bill brought home “The Lives of Others” last night from the Red Box. (I guess they didn’t have any porn, ha, ha.) It’s in German so I didn’t get it all, but the gist is a man doing important work for the government becomes a Republican and starts helping citizens to do bad […]