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I was kidnapped—plucked from my home, disoriented by bright lights, and transported to a top secret facility where government types could study me. As a keen observer of the human condition and a master of disguise, I could be anything. To protect myself from abduction, I’d hidden in a sea of mediocrity. I thought I [...]
I was sitting at the reception desk, shivering in my thin wool dress and wishing my employer could afford coal delivery, when the phone rang. It was my Aunt Elyse. “I found it!†she said.
I tried to remember if she had lost anything. But other than her life’s savings, which we had all lost in [...]
It started with a slip of paper. The slip looked like a grocery list, except that it had lots of numbers and strange math symbols scrawled on it instead of food. I took it from the dead man’s hand, which clutched it tightly in death. Obviously I had scared the killer away. He didn’t have [...]
“You should have told me,” shouted Wiley as he squirmed out of his bride’s passionate embrace.
He paced the bedroom, finally coming to a halt at the foot of the bed. “I can’t believe we’re on our honeymoon and you never told me this…this…” He threw his hands in the air and started walking the carpet [...]
The rain comes just once every thousand years. Torrents of liquid methane pour from skies painted an eternal twilight orange. At 290 degrees below zero Farenheit, the cold is a lethal assault. And in the hazy sky, the ringed planet looms large.
There were parties that night, but I elected to spend it alone, drinking and snorting the last of my priceless heroin on a wooded bluff overlooking the sea, capturing what quiet I could on my own terms and determined to meet the last day sober.
I woke, caked in vomit and pain as the sun arose, [...]
Dash Chandler had been in tight spots before. But it didn’t look like he could get out of this one.
“You know what some televangelist said the other night?[...]
“We can cut down on labor costs if we open up some new factories on the Mars colonies,” said Richard Prel.
Two astronauts viewed nothing but chalky lunar landscape and blackest night.
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