There’s Something in the Water

I hesitated at the door. It was a door I usually hesitated at, but this time was different. My skin … More

Food for Thought

“Lights out!” said Dad, “The AI is about to start feeding.” It was always the same: just when I was … More

Clean up on aisle five I was shopping, feeling the residual chill in the freezer aisle at the local Tesco … More

Light is death ‘Don’t go toward the light.’ That was why lighthouses were built. The light was death on rocks; … More

The scene of the incident was nothing I hadn’t seen dozens of times before, but I never lost that spike … More

A pool of water from the lashing rain grew outside the long, shallow factory window, a mirror on the concrete. … More

Graveyards of idiots I reached a moment of pure honesty on the morning of the eve of my fifty-fifth birthday. … More

I had damaged myself. The blood was caked about my hand and wrist and had made the cuff of my … More

“How do you defeat something?” “Defeat what?” “Anything?” Mannings had ushered him away to a basement, just a few minutes … More

Watching your world degrade is an experience unlike any other. It’s like watching your bed begin to burn while you … More

I saw myself standing on the other side of the reinforced glass door to my house as I turned into … More

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Please sit back, relax and prepare for take-off. Be advised there are … More

For a robot, it was enormous, a huge silver barrel of a body the size of a bus, swaying side … More

Absolute silence combined with absolute darkness can drive you mad. Your brain begins to fill in the void with its … More

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

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

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

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

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