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It's Just Another Job

by Robert Vaughn

Set in a futuristic world where the American dream is dead, and corporations are the new government. Ren, a spy for Lone Star Oil and Heavy Industries is tasked with a dangerous mission.

- Length: 16 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 1 Comments

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HRC

by Brennan Michael

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

- Length: 17 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 7 Comments

Terra Infirmum

by Christopher R. Muscato

The end of the world tends to have a negative impact on the motivation to complete one’s daily chores.

- Length: 12 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 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

The Cubelli Lagoon

by Fernando Sorrentino

In the southeast region of the plains of Buenos Aires, you might come across the Cubelli Lagoon, known as the "Lake of the Dancing Alligator."

- Length: 3 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 10 Comments

Rollback

by Luke Holland

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

- Length: 8 pages

- Age Rating: 15

- 2 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

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

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

Welcome to the scifi short story section at east of the web. Find this month's featured stories above. You can browse the scifi library by subgenre or search it for a title, author or keyword. Clicking on an author's name lists all their stories along with further information and links. Stories can be read online, printed or downloaded for reading offline or on handheld devices.

Terra Infirmum

by Christopher R. Muscato

The end of the world tends to have a negative impact on the motivation to complete one’s daily chores.

- Length: 12 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 2 Comments

It's Just Another Job

by Robert Vaughn

Set in a futuristic world where the American dream is dead, and corporations are the new government. Ren, a spy for Lone Star Oil and Heavy Industries is tasked with a dangerous mission.

- Length: 16 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 1 Comments

HRC

by Brennan Michael

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

- Length: 17 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 7 Comments

Shovel Bums

by Amaziah J. Root

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