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THESE WORDS THROUGH TIME • by Von Rupert

April 21, 2014Every Day Fiction 58 Comments

Dear Sorah, Be brave and be strong. You have not been forgotten. Memorize these words like you memorized The Fifty Chronicles of Humanity in primary school. Recite them each time you lose your way. They traveled great distances and changed… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories prison, royalty, sacrifice, time travel, Von Rupert

DEATH BY STARLIGHT • by Robert J. McCarter

April 18, 2014Every Day Fiction 23 Comments

The void of space. Dark. Empty. Lit only by the pinpricks of starlight as I floated in the vast emptiness. Alone. Oxygen running out, blaring blood-red on my heads-up display. Time to die… The animal in us can’t conceive of… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories near-death experience, Robert J. McCarter, space

THE JANITOR OF LIDO • by Oscar Windsor-Smith

April 16, 2014Every Day Fiction 20 Comments

Android JT1K checked its data. Alert: Power low. Reduce load. The solar flares they’d experienced in high orbit must have done more damage than had been recorded on board the mother ship. Power to the lander had almost drained. Decision:… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories androids, maintenance workers, Oscar Windsor-Smith, space colonization

THE FOUR BILLION YEAR BIRTHDAY • by Jamie Hittman

March 29, 2014Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

“I’m glad you could come see me off,” said the woman behind the airlock. Her voice crackled through a speaker in the ceiling of Sector 8-G, but Dr. Hauser could tell she was smiling. He imagined her kneeling, plump and… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Jamie Hittman, psychiatrists, space colonization

HEART OF STEEL • by Jeremy Szal

March 13, 2014Every Day Fiction 30 Comments

I looked at myself in the mirror, wishing that my eyes were lying to me — that this was all just some screwed up nightmare. But it wasn’t. My eyes were telling the truth. The bony, pinkish arms that I… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories androids, Jeremy Szal

WITH YOU ALWAYS • by Patrick Lind

February 21, 2014Every Day Fiction 36 Comments

He smiled as he finished wrapping the gift. It hadn’t been as hard as he feared. Satisfied, he brought out his pen and wrote. *** Amanda received the first latticework animal the morning before her sixth birthday. It was sitting… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories family, gifts, love, Patrick Lind

A WASTE OF TIME • by Peter Wood

January 5, 2014Every Day Fiction 16 Comments

Professor Cornwall stepped into N.C. State University’s basement physics department lab and stared at Garcia, the discoverer of time travel. Hunched over his work station, the boy genius fiddled with a mobile phone. The faint sound of Day Tripper leaked… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories academia, Peter Wood, time travel

A HISTORY, IN REVERSE • by Miranda Suri

December 28, 2013Every Day Fiction 11 Comments

I wake in darkness, adrift in space. Circuits fire with animal instinct. I reach for the others, but where a vast Consciousness once clamored I find only an echoing void. I am the last, alone. My only memories are those… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Miranda Suri, space

THIRD SKIN TURBO • by E. M. Byrne

December 21, 2013Every Day Fiction 13 Comments

PLIFF-pliff-pliff-pliff. PLIFF-pliff-pliff-pliff. LAP-twen-ty-one. SEE-the-boy-run. Yeah, me, Grant Matthews, Olympian. Never felt faster. Is it really the suit? Can ‘optimal thermoregulation’ make that much difference to a runner? DeSelbySuits sure wanted us to believe it, before the ‘fusion’ accidents. The apogee… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories E. M. Byrne, Olympics, running, sports

ESSENCE • by Nick Bevan

December 15, 2013Every Day Fiction 10 Comments

There are only two roads out of the country north through the sierra. Most take the three-lane highway from the provincial capital. If you come through our town you must be a hick, with withered crops to sell across the… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories border crossings, Nick Bevan

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