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Belly Button Reset

by Joshua Hale Fialkov

The mother wants to have a child more than anything in the world. She gets her wish with the help of a man from another world, but, her child is not quite what she expected. Satirical science fiction in the...

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romance

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Living History

by Ben Essex

(A story about clones, dinosaurs and the Concept of Benjamin Franklin). Jacob White works for the Salmon Corporation. It's an easy job, provided you do what you're told and don't ask too many questions. Jacob...

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Benjamin Franklin

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Corvus

by L. Lee Lowe

In a slightly alternate world the minds of teen offenders are uploaded into computers for rehabilitation—a form of virtual wilderness therapy. Zach is a homo cognoscens, one of the new humans who can enter...

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teen fiction

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Rina and Fabit

by ELiane B.

A science-fiction very short story of love, world problem and a novel solution.

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very short story

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Techtonic

by chaote9

Following his captain, Castillos’ squad found themselves in the military junkyard near the bay. They cut had contact with all other forces. The small group of twelve had two engineers and five mechanics with...

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Excision

by Wendy Palmer

In a dystopic future world, Neema searches for a way to help her sister.

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zombies

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His Robot Girlfriend

by Wesley Allison

Mike Smith's life was crap, living all alone, years after his wife had died and his children had grown up and moved away. Then he saw the commercial for the Daffodil. Far more than other robots, the Daffodil...

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Probability Angels

by Joseph Devon

Matthew Huntington’s problems seem to keep growing. Not only is he seeing things in garbage cans but his mentor doesn’t think he’s working up to his full potential, his best friend can’t offer any solace...

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Blog

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bury We below the Weeds

by J.L. Dale

One of the five novelettes that compose the arching story of Pattern of the Wolf or the Guts of a Cop. A re-birthed romance brings biological chaos to the world, in the form of a plant-based networking system....

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sci-fi

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Last Sun of Krypton #3

by Samantha Chapman

Last Sun of Krypton, Part 3 (of 3). "If Lyla had still been there to talk him out of it, Kal knew that he would never have even suggested this solution, let alone volunteered for it. He stood alone in the middle...

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Last Sun of Krypton #2

by Samantha Chapman

last Sun of Krypton, Part 2 (of 3). Even with the heavy news hanging over their heads, life must go on for Kal-El and his loved ones. But how can they go on with life as usual when the world is about to collapse?...

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Last Sun of Krypton #1

by Samantha Chapman

Last Sun of Krypton, Part 1 (of 3). Travel with us now, into the past, to a time when a great and advanced race of people lived, loved, fought and struggled with the day-to-day and with the higher aspirations...

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Surviving the Fog

by Stan Morris

A group of teenaged campers are stranded in the high Sierra Nevada mountains by a mysterious fog that covers the world below them. They struggle to build a new world. Warning: Sexual situations, cursing, violence

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Young Adult

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the Zany Time Travels of Warble McGorkle

by Blackbird Crow Raven

Warble McGorkle and his entourage travel back in time to alter history. Their meddling in Revolutionary Times, at Custer's Last Stand, the Alamo, Woodstock, as well as a detour to 1st century Jerusalem to kidnap...

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social commentary

Tokyo Zero

by Marc Horne

One man goes to Tokyo to end the world. It goes fairly well.
As a Japanese cult gets ready to stage a massive attack, they are forced to recruit a secretive young bio-chemist from the West. They hide out on...

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The Star Captains' Daughter

by Kimber An

A secret baby grows up to wreak havoc on the galaxy trying to reconcile her parents' marriage, not realizing the terrible sacrifice it will require.

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Young Adult

Light-Years Ahead of His Time

by Joseph Devon

This story was published out of sequence because I got somewhat derailed during the Holidays by family and then I got sick and blah blah blah. At some point leading up to this story I decided that I wanted to...

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Scarface's Burden

by Joseph Devon

A reworking of one of Jonathan Coulton’s songs. Explore the various inner workings of a mad genius’s compound through the eyes of his most loyal assistant, Scarface. Between maintenance on the golden submarine,...

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Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #16

by Silver Age Books

This issue’s brilliant cover by John Shanks has doubtless alerted you to the main content of this issue: Howard Phillips relates to us The Doom That Came to Sea Base Delta! Then Lawrence Dagstine tells of...

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