Strained Servers

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

The Day Editors

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

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

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

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

As Fire Response Marshal, Chuck Seager had a high life insurance. His wife had long left him but his estranged … More

As an artificial human I liked to study the real ones. They would move a little different than I did. … More

The five surly policemen were practiced at being intimidating. They walked like lions, padding through the plains, unafraid of any … More

The tall hallway in my house seemed unreasonably quiet, as if spectres were lurking and judging me from the corners. … More

I was normally more careful about idle chatter or looking at things I wanted. When I saw the broad-shouldered guy … More

When a kettle boils, it’s like a small scream. But in a long day those small screams need to happen. … More

The production line never really stopped. For maintenance and inspections there were brief pauses but the conveyer rolled its parts … More

There are no laws on Mars, just agreements. I say this because when the extraction ship comes in 126 sols, … More

Jack Seymour frowned, so deep furrows formed on his brow, staring at the PDF receipt on the screen of his … More

I was asleep when the alert sounded in my earpiece. It was 10:05pm on a Tuesday. I had retreated to … More

“She was smiling when they put her in the capsule.” General Wright did not respond straight away, quite deliberately. He … More

It struck me, every movie I enjoyed celebrated the victors who were most violent, who dominated, who won through slaughter. … More

What is reality? It’s whatever you see, you hear, you believe. It’s what you are shown. The filter was painless … More