My best friend, Marty Darnell, used to say he could read the shape of people. I often wondered what he…
Angels of Suburbia
The suburban matrix was still and quiet and not in the usual way. There were no young mothers pushing prams…
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…
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…
Terror Island
They could read your mood. That was the most terrifying thing. I wondered if they could even read your decisions.…
Runners of the Wastelands
“There are twenty artefacts on the countertop, on the top floor of the Lewis temple, and there are fifty of…
The Hunger of Leviathan
The sea was a mirror of the sky except, in one, you would drown and in the other, you would…
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…
Scraps
It had seemed like a good idea to view the city from the highest point, which was obviously Grey’s Insurance…
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…
The Elevator Trials
Norman Grant didn’t believe in predetermined fate or praying to God but he was contemplating both of these ideas as…
The Farm
It was disturbing to take in the endless, neat rows of empty white seats in the preparation space. There had…
Shame Fame
I awoke sharply from a feverish dream, where I was standing with statuesque stillness and completely naked at a conference…
Future Orientation
“You can not travel back in time. It’s impossible and why would you want to? But time travel is possible,…
Spectres
A home is a place you should feel safe. A place to keep the dangers out. The spectres were dissolving…
Beneath the Canyons
“The difference,” said Detective Shawn Trenton, “between successful people and unsuccessful people is in your definition of success.” The argument…
Strained Servers
“A day is like a pool of water. It looks permanent, it looks still, like it’s always there, but it…
The Day Editors
The perfect world. That is where I lived. Nothing bad ever happened. The news was only good news. The government…
Feeding Frenzy
The warm, acidic sea teased the arctic coastline, just a few feet from the entrance of the seed bank. It…
The Lithium Murders
My phone battery was dead. I was on my own. I heard them sneaking around in the overgrown garden of…
Dystopian Days 