The Dregs Of Mars
Here’s an excerpt: The distant Sun peeked out from behind Jupiter and shown down on the small gaseous moon, Io. It had just crested above the highest peak in the Trangerian mountains. In the hollow of...
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ifs
What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? ~Woody Allen The hallmark of all speculative fiction is “what if ?” That short two word interrogatory has certainly produced many interesting...
View ArticleOn The River Dark
Here’s an excerpt: “By the rivers dark where I could not see who was waiting there, who was hunting me.” – Leonard Cohen, 2001 Prologue Fall 2027 The great black bird with white tipped wings circled...
View ArticleA Litany of Days
Here’s an excerpt: I. 42340 days. “Ready…4…3…2…1…and back,” The set director pointed at Handecker. Acting the part of sage by removing his glasses Handecker looked up from his notes. “Welcome back,” he...
View ArticleEidolon Buff
Obesity. Seems as though almost everyone you see walking on the street or lolling in a Walmart has extra pounds of flesh to share. It couldn’t be any different anywhere else in the Galaxy, could it?...
View ArticleElocution
Here’s an excerpt: Larkin felt the ship wrench. The hit that the freighter took from the Narasillian cruiser dazed him for a moment and tore a hole in the refractory coating the ships power core. In...
View ArticleThe Tesla Bars
By James Gengler and Mark Brandon Allen Here’s an excerpt: When I was a young intern at Maryville Mercy Center, an extended care mental health facility, just outside of Indianapolis, one of my...
View ArticleThere’s A Cat on Neda
Here’s an excerpt: Towed by its host planet’s orbit the small companion moon, Neda, moved inescapably with the large gas giant to annual perigee around 55 Cancri A. Neda’s damp, thinly oxygenated air...
View ArticleElements of the Game
At one point or another most writers attempt to pay homage to authors who wrote the stories that they read during childhood. Edgar Rice Burroughs tales about John Carter on Barsoom are some of those...
View ArticleStories Make the Best Souvenirs
Here’s an excerpt Snow fell following the prevailing wind on Ezinor’s frozen moon, Jafe, building drifts of blue methane across the plateau. It had been a short climb for the group up the escarpment...
View ArticleAn Evening At Mount Baldy
Here’s an excerpt “Okay Art, why the hell are you so insistent on screwin’ around here on Mount Baldy this late in the day?” Carl Ransom asked. “Because of what you found while you and your excavating...
View ArticleThe Shroud of Aset
Here is an excerpt. There was little doubt that the ancient civilizations of Earth were linked to one of the planets orbiting Rebelon within the Heisod nebula. The chance discovery of a set of...
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