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The whole exospecimen idea started the night Moses Garcia was bitten by an echidna shrew in his sleep.

- Length: 15 pages

- Age Rating: PG

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by Brennan Michael

In the future, food is boring. Or, perhaps not.

- Length: 17 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 6 Comments

Eternity is 20 Seconds Long

by Paul Trembling

They would have the time of their lives. A long time.

- Length: 3 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 69 Comments

Rollback

by Luke Holland

People aren’t as good at dying as you might think.

- Length: 8 pages

- Age Rating: 15

- 2 Comments

Chastisement By The Lambs

by Fernando Sorrentino

A man investigates an increasingly common phenomenon involving carnivorous lambs with a highly developed sense of justice.

- Length: 6 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 54 Comments

Starlight

by Michael Chin

The Rasite ship sprawled ten times the size of the little cruiser that Ambros had named Starlight

- Length: 13 pages

- Age Rating: PG

Happy Birthday Patrick

by Christopher Adams

Yesterday’s air sucked out, tidied and smoothed for re-use.

- Length: 7 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 8 Comments

The Neanderthal in the Garden

by Guido Eekhaut

Suddenly red ink flows from my pen. Startled, I assume it is blood, but then realize it is the color of the moon...

- Length: 4 pages

- Age Rating: 15

- 4 Comments

Paris, at Night

by Sung J. Woo

"You grow memory like a crop, and when you want to, you harvest it."

- Length: 10 pages

- Age Rating: 15

- 57 Comments

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