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Drunk at the End of the World

I witnessed the curling black mushroom cloud for the briefest of moments, it reached over the city on fire like…

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The Girl Who Bought a Planet

“What is it worth to you, really?” That was his twisting question. Alasha looked the trade agent in the eye…

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Terror Island

They could read your mood. That was the most terrifying thing. I wondered if they could even read your decisions.…

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Runners of the Wastelands

“There are twenty artefacts on the countertop, on the top floor of the Lewis temple, and there are fifty of…

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The Hunger of Leviathan

The sea was a mirror of the sky except, in one, you would drown and in the other, you would…

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The Last Words of Annie

Genemagix, the word was nonsense, like most brands and company names, and yet, the investment-burgeoning startups of Silicon Valley hinged…

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Scraps

It had seemed like a good idea to view the city from the highest point, which was obviously Grey’s Insurance…

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The Monster from the Woods

The storm was keeping Sam Morrison awake. He listened to the lid fly from the recycling bin and clatter across…

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The Elevator Trials

Norman Grant didn’t believe in predetermined fate or praying to God but he was contemplating both of these ideas as…

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The Farm 

It was disturbing to take in the endless, neat rows of empty white seats in the preparation space. There had…

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Shame Fame

I awoke sharply from a feverish dream, where I was standing with statuesque stillness and completely naked at a conference…

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Future Orientation

“You can not travel back in time. It’s impossible and why would you want to? But time travel is possible,…

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Spectres

A home is a place you should feel safe. A place to keep the dangers out. The spectres were dissolving…

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Beneath the Canyons

“The difference,” said Detective Shawn Trenton, “between successful people and unsuccessful people is in your definition of success.” The argument…

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Strained Servers

“A day is like a pool of water. It looks permanent, it looks still, like it’s always there, but it…

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The Day Editors

The perfect world. That is where I lived. Nothing bad ever happened. The news was only good news. The government…

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Feeding Frenzy

The warm, acidic sea teased the arctic coastline, just a few feet from the entrance of the seed bank. It…

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The Lithium Murders

My phone battery was dead. I was on my own. I heard them sneaking around in the overgrown garden of…

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Paranoidia

It was a rude awakening. The holo-link even woke my children, they stirred in the darkness of their bedrooms and…

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The Testament Collector

The pile of bodies was fresh, I knew that much from the lack of stench, and the blood was wet.…

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