Burst Fiction

Jun 16

The Space Diaries of Earthborn Maggie - “Tongue Please.” Maggie could program her toothbrush to sound like whomever she wanted, and today it greeted her with the voice of Jonathan Powers, the teen idol of the millennium.  She rolled her…

Jun 13

Aegis Library -

Shelly was the Librarian, and she hated it.

The Library was what they called the storage complex for souls. Or at least, the transcoded neural nets of Marauder victims who had been copied and…

Jun 10

The Divide -

“Did you see the news today?” Jan asked me, with that look on her face that told me whatever it was, she didn’t like it.

“No, why?”

“They’ve just invented a robotic human brain, it’s the last…

Sleeper -

She watched him lazily as they lay entwined on the bed. Her fingers traced along his jawline, back and forth before brushing them gently across his lips. The feathery touch elicited a ghost of a…

Held Up At Customs -

They wanted his pinky finger at customs.

At first, he’d thought maybe they just wanted a print or a blood sample. But then, he’d seen what happened to the tentacle of the sapient in line ahead…

Jun 02

One Princess In Amber -

I woke at midnight on the day of my one hundredth birthday.

Some sound, perhaps some presence, had stirred my mind. I could see no one in the shadows of my bedroom, but that meant little….

May 24

The Many Names of the Maker -

“So do you have a name, or do I get to call you God from now on?” quipped Dreanna.

“A name…” He replied almost absentmindedly. He had several names, countless names throughout the eons. So…

May 18

Leaving Las Marsas - Robert slowly boarded the waiting transport, bandaged fingers struggling to grasp the worn hand railing as he struggled up the metal steps. Like everything else on this world, they were covered with…