By João Ventura

Aldous was a fanatic of alternative medicines, a fervent supporter of every measure aimed at combating Big Pharma.

At the Academy of Well-Being that he attended,

By Kevin J. Phyland

The whole ship rang like a bell, forcing me rudely awake and alert. I could feel the vibration throughout the interior of the small courier ship as I hastily

By Joseph Sullivan

The Floating Cauldronwas one of the most renowned ships on the high seas, looked at with both suspicion and wonder. It was captained by the legendary

By Steven French

No, I don’t know any Sfahar. No, I never met anyone with that name on ‘my travels’. Who the hell calls it that?! ‘My travels’. You don’t travel, you twist, ? Through

By Karys Rhea

Krenshaw was wandering through Madrone Canyon in a daze. A far cry from New York City, the sights, sounds, and smells of Northern California were paradoxically energising

By Julie Wornan

The smallest of our family and furthest from its heart, 
Some folks want to exclude you now. They say you must depart.

You, for so long hidden in the

By Liam Latz

A knock at the door woke Whitney. The TV was still on; a news host and a microbiologist were going over the recent discoveries on Iapetus. 

She pulled herself

By Stefan Vučak

“Something my old grandfather told me once,” my grandpa began as he puffed on a cherrywood pipe and rocked in his favourite rickety chair.

“A beautiful

By JS O'Keefe

There’s a particularly deep-lying station in our city’s subway system, aptly nicknamed the Inner Core. As almost expected, recently a joke meister came up with another

By Ramprasath Rengasamy

“Let’s say I start a Math Antakshari. That is, one problem leads to another problem, and so on. How quickly can each of you provide the answers?” Math professor

By David Dumouriez

Approximately four score and seven years ago, the Luxians saw, they came and they conquered.

Well, actually they didn’t need to do much conquering. They

By Chaz Osburn

Professor Thomas Armstrong was deep in thought at his computer when he heard the door open to his office at the university’s Deep Space Multiple Wavelength

By Adam Browne

Our hiding place, which the others call the Annex, contains a second secret behind the plaster: a deserted laboratory left by a physician of dreadful

By Marjan Sierhuis

Vampires were exclusively male — or so everyone had always believed. Yet here I was, living proof that the notion was false. My father was an immortal. My mother,