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Well, that's middle age for you: you either grow up, grow into it, accept its imperfections, its disappointments, and grow old grumbling at someone, or you ruin yourself on a mad fling with a girl half your...

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short story

time travel

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Continuation

by CD Clement

So I died, and to be totally honest with you it was a lot more painful than I had expected. A hell of a lot more painful. But then again I am fairly sure that you are not supposed to remember the actual death...

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science fiction

short story

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Crystal Says

by Michael Graeme

A twenty minute read: So, I'm standing in this crop circle, down in Wiltshire, England, and there's a girl dangling a crystal from the end of a chain. She's very pretty, so I'm thinking I'll have to find a way...

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crop circles

speculative fiction

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Entropy of Imagination

by Ryan Somma

Trapped in a World Running Out of Ideas...

Thousands of years ago, before he was trapped on an isolated computer system, Flatline was programmed to conquer the world. Today he’s escaped back to the World Wide...

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speculative fiction

fantasic

Clones

by Ryan Somma

How would you raise yourself?

Your cloned child is a mirror, simultaneously reflecting who you are and what you might have been. It's potential was your potential. Can your clone achieve those dreams that fell...

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speculative fiction

science fiction

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Other Sides: 12 Webfiction Tales

by Ergofiction

The advent of digital publishing has seen the rise of a new breed of writers: independent, experimental and unfettered by convention. This brand new anthology features a small sampling of these very writers,...

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speculative fiction

webfiction

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The Lost Memory

by John Krissilas

In the future... memories and thoughts are stored on devices strapped to our arms, freeing our minds from the need to remember. This seemed like the perfect kind of future for Jason, a father who prides himself...

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speculative fiction

science fiction

& 14 tags

The Third

by Abel Keogh

When Ransom Lawe, a recycler in the Pacific Northwest, finds out his wife is pregnant with their third—and therefore illegal—child, he’s forced to choose between the government who proclaims a desire to...

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science fiction

science fiction adventure

& 9 tags

The Tranquillity Project

by Clare Tanner

The price of peace is high in the post-war British zone of 2042. The female government, led by Verity Wood, blames male aggression for the devastating “Final War”, which has resulted in a shrunken world...

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speculative fiction

dystopia

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The Lemon Thief's Ex-Wife's Third Cousin

by Tom Lichtenberg

YOLO. You Only Live Once. Or do you? Maybe there's another you living your own life somewhere else, right now. When my friend received a postcard in the mail depicting his childhood home he had no idea who had...

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speculative fiction

surrealism

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Expiration Date

by Jeff Thomason

When one thinks of a time machine, he imagines all the exotic adventures he could take. But what if a large firm were to get their hands on one and let its legal and compliance department have a say? How could...

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new pulp fiction

time travel

& 7 tags

Tauscher's Brides

by Kurt Ulmer

His answer to a lack of suitable brides was direct, violent and very profitable. He bartered goods, then people and found another way to supply brides to those who could afford his price. And then his luck ran...

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speculative fiction

drama

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Modus Operandi

by John Krissilas

In the future... people all over the world have been swept up in a new cult of happiness called The One True Way. Ryan Poole of the Washington Sentinel reports on the harrowing assassination attempt on the cult's...

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new age

speculative fiction

& 15 tags

Under a Train

by Vicky Q.

A short story about a possible future.

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science fiction

speculative fiction

& 2 tags