Soul Searching by Beverly Forehand
I got a funny email today. Funny, as in disturbing. I know what you're thinking - half the emails you receive in a given day are pretty disturbing.... (full story)Conquerors by Edward A. Rodosek
'To Brigadier General Fitzpatrick, commander in chief of the Earth Empire Army. The glorious Earth Empire forever! Long live the colonized galaxy!... (full story)Signpost by Michael P. Dunn
I looked up through the shuttle's observation bubble, toward the ship that hung slightly to port. I had spent nearly ten years onboard SS Foxfire, EC-083, working my way up from green-as-grass ensign to the ship's Senior Contact Officer.... (full story)War Thrash by Luke Jackson
Behind the sergeant, the dull black sphere rotated in space. The land was a wasted stretch of charcoal; its oceans a brackish green. It was an ugly planet, pockmarked and misshapen, a smirch on the velvet black smoothness of space. It cried out to be cleansed and eradicated.... (full story)The May Queen by Eric Lehman
The forest was the birthplace of all forests. Magnificent trees towered hundreds of feet into the air, blotting out all but the thinnest threads of sunlight. Emerald moss carpeted the soft floor.... (full story)
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