The Return of Doctor Plastic
An alter ego is another self, a distinct second identity that can allow a person to lead a double life. Jane a meek java developer by day is a crime …
The Last Days of Darkness
Ajit, a fourth generation resident of the arcology GBT Ellesmere, is tasked with the job of clearing out old documents and by accident stumbles upon some disturbing information that is …
Canis Major
Loyalty, according to Wikipedia, is the “faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause.” In this month’s story loyalty comes in many flavours as an aging pack …
Tourist Trap
There are many legends associated with certain famous objects and sites around the world. Loch Ness, the Pyramids, the Nazca Lines, the plain of Jars or Stonehenge, which various groups …
A Perfect Life
Arthur C. Clark’s famous third law of prediction states that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” But is understanding how something works any more important than the ultimate …
Forty-five Minutes
Choices, we all have choices in our lives which are not always easy to make. We are never able to predict how they will turn out. Does our fear of …
Driven
A retired software quality control engineer is pressed back into service by the agency that pays his for his room and board to help recover the money that agency the …
The Last Big Idea
Laura Mackenzie, an energetic late nineteenth century entrepreneur, struggles to introduce a new technology that will shape the next century and realize her dreams. Caught the politics of the day …
The Prediction
Two friends find themselves on opposite sides of a prediction that, if correct will become the opportunity to see a once in a lifetime astronomical event, and if wrong could …
Finder
On a world only 20 lights from earth a colony of humans have mostly learned to live with the Aliens who arrived on the planet at the same time. But …
Lifeline
While investigating an anomaly in the size of the information packets being sent from a commercial project on Mars, Yara an engineer, discovers a hidden signal which turns out to …
The Wondering City
Two recent immigrants to a new colony world find it unexpectedly difficult to make ends meet until one of them wins a trip for two to seven exotic worlds. While …
Low Resolution
Finola, an unemployed librarian, lands a job with a research institute investigating unexplained phenomena. Unlike her new colleagues she is sceptical about the existence of the supernatural, UFOs, aliens, and …
Special Delivery
Sal through, no fault of his own, has been reduced to house sitting for a living. He moves from house to house hiding from his past from his past until …
Runaway
Alana, a gamer from the poor side of town, has worked her way into an elite online guild, which only admits players from wealthy neighbourhoods. When she is accidently discovered …
2012 The End of My World
While on a school field trip to a nuclear research station, in the late 1960’s, Allen is overwhelmed with a sense of déjà vu, and can’t break away from the …
The Volunteer
After graduating college Eveta is unexpectedly called up as a volunteer for community service. She is required to take on the personality of another person and temporarily live among the …
The Gap
A trip to the coast in search of work ends up at a remote struggling hotel. Built by the passion and obsession of its owner, the hotel may hold a …
The Last Mod
Frillo was orphaned at an early age and grew up on the streets of the economic zone. Taken in by an older modder he quickly learned the trade and by …
Blackout
While on vacation on a holiday moon Cala takes a late night walk and ends up being taken by aliens to a bizarre place, where she is forced to play …