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October 6th, 2008 Sickness by Sam Clough
Author : Sam Clough, Staff Writer
Sacha slumped down in a doorway, gathering her heavy clothes tighter around her. As a prophylactic measure, the cloth and leather were almost useless: it was less about protection, more about appearances. The door behind her was like every other in this street. Rough, wooden, and with a ‘X’ splashed [...] -
October 5th, 2008 Belle of the Ball by submission
Author : Matthew Forish
My call sign is Belle – I don’t have a real name, just a designation: ASC-a217.5. I stand about four-foot-two - pretty short even for a girl - and weigh in at a paltry eighty-four pounds. There are plenty of children larger than I am. Of course, I was designed this way. [...] -
October 4th, 2008 The Europa Transmissions by submission
Author : Glenn Head
Transmission 211.
Is it on, Greg? Is it? Okay.
Today our situation - stranded on Jupiter’s ice moon Europa - has worsened. Todd disappeared last night. He wasn’t in camp, by our ship, and we thought he’d gone on a surveillance trip. We found him dead this morning. He was frozen solid, metres away [...] -
October 3rd, 2008 Saint John by submission
Author : Glenn Blakeslee
It’s a disease, I guess, an affliction. My body is bound to a parallel.
No, not a geometric form, but a line around the earth. I’m bound to the 38th parallel.
I woke one morning dizzy, with throbbing pain in my limbs and abdomen. I hurt for days, but I found each time I [...] -
October 2nd, 2008 Radio Free Earth by Duncan Shields
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer
The aliens dug our tunes.
It was sweet. They came to down to us in these big blue ships, all curves and awe-inspiring slowness through the clouds like settling continents. Freaked us right out. We, the human race, didn’t even try to attack. We’d seen this movie before. We knew that [...] -
October 1st, 2008 Think Tank by submission
Author : Ben ‘Inorian’ Le Chevalier
Insanity. That’s the first thing I thought when they told me about the project. Insanity.
I felt a sharp shock, followed by pain at the back of my head.
Well, there goes another one. Another one of the thousands they have taken from me, but it doesn’t matter to me anymore. [...] -
September 30th, 2008 The Old Man and The Sea Redux by submission
Author : Andy Bolt
WELCOME, Chip Winkler, TO STORYWEB 9.0! PLEASE INPUT LITBASE:
Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea
LITBASE FOUND! LAUNCHING . . .
Enrique was mindswiped by the storybot as he dangled from the 93rd floor window of the Kentaka building. He was a little preoccupied rewiring the entire structure for atmospheric [...] -
September 29th, 2008 A Study in Logic by Patricia Stewart
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer
Inspector Jeffery Lastrade greeted Philip Homes and Bruce Wattson at the entrance of the Metropolitan Police Headquarters in downtown London. “Thanks for coming on such short notice,” said Lastrade as he pumped Homes’ hand. “I desperately need your help. I’m at my wits end with last [...] -
September 28th, 2008 Lifeboat by submission
Author : Bill Lombardi
He had been awake for seventy-two hours – twenty-four spent in an acclamation unit. His legs hadn’t adjusted yet and he had trouble standing, so he sat at an unshielded viewport in the common area looking off into space, sipping from a nutrient pack. His stasis pod had failed. [...] -
September 27th, 2008 Bug Catching by submission
Author : Alec Ow
My parents always told me the Cold was a gateway bug. All throughout middle-school and for most of high-school I was pretty clean. Then I saw one of my friends coming to school with the sniffles.
He didn’t really try to hide it from anyone, thinking back now it seemed like [...]
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