After losing her job to an artificial intelligence, Janet impulsively decides to drive to an observatory where she can watch the Perseid meteor shower. However, just before she arrives, Janet stops to take a break and finds herself mistaken for someone…

Jerry Anders a veteran overnight talk radio host chooses to stay on air during an extreme weather event to discuss recent changes to the climate with his guests and listeners. Part way through the night a lightning strike disrupts his show and Jerry fi…

Down on their luck, a family of alien real estate agents becomes concerned when humans move in next door to their beach front condo.  After several unpleasant interactions with the humans, the aliens hatch a money losing plot to get the loud,

Shani, a web developer who wants to learn how to write fiction, is befriended by Catalina, a promising author. Mutually interested in magic realism they decide to help each other out. Shani soon discovers that Catalina believes souls can move from body…

One day Ryan arrives home to find Megan complaining about a very unusual house guest that he has inadvertently invited into their lives. When the guest appears to be settling in for a very long stay, Megan and Ryan become desperate to find a way to enc…

Myra, a successful business woman, has her life thrown off track by some unexpected news that changes her outlook and triggers the events which end up taking her to one of the most remote islands on the planet.

  – Authorities in the minor galactic spur of Orion contract the Hyper Nova to clean up an illegal dump hidden in the orbital trash of a backwater planet. Something in the debris has been leaking tachyons and tau neutrinos which are interfering with n…

  – In this month’s story Risa and her mother have worked hard to grow their social credit score to the point where they can move on. However, a mysterious delivery, sent to by intention or mistake, becomes a roadblock to their plans until Risa discov…

  – Lan, a would be writer, about to hit the big time with his first novel, thumbs his nose at a large software company in an online post. The post goes viral and soon after things start to go wrong. And Lan finds that he is about to loose his one and…

  – Fossmar Gunnarsson, the founder of a large international technology company, creates the ultimate technological innovation, a system that copies the brain and uploads it to an artificial neuro-net. When he is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal dis…

  – After listening to an unusual doctoral thesis that makes outlandish claims about music and the nature of the universe an archaeologist, finds himself gradually coming to believe that the crackpot theory may have some truth to it. –

  – In this month’s story the third generation leader of a divided colony ship, drifting between the stars, tries to escape his duties by submerging himself in fictional stories. But at a critical moment the line between fiction and reality blur,

  – Could life be measured by how far it has traveled? Possibly, after all time and space are intimately connected. Time slows down as you approach the speed of light and it’s been frequently postulated this could be a time machine of sorts that would…

  – This month we bring back two characters, Adrian and Serene, mutual mimesis, from some of our earliest stories. Adrian is drawn to Earth hoping to find the resources to finally right the ancient wrong that nearly destroyed his people.

Hansa one of the working poor in a large city is caught in a happiness sweep and finds herself imprisoned in an odd internment camp run by clowns. When the clown assigned to Hansa attempts turn her into a happy citizen by erasing her identity Hansa str…

In this month’s story Illusio, a veteran TV illusionist who is struggling to keep himself interested in his profession is confronted by an eager amateur magician named Dai. When Dai tries to unravel the mystery behind Ilusio’s unusual act,

Veeda, a mathematical savant who has never miscalculated anything, blanks out on a simple question in an exam. She wakes from her stupor to discover that she used the wrong value for a constant and has inadvertently changed the physical world.

Coyotl, a slave in a seventh-century new world silver mine, must take on the work of two after some of his brethren escape. However, a very unusual stranger soon arrives, wanting to trade diamonds for Quicksilver, better known today as mercury.

In this month’s story we return to the True North a colony ship on a multi-generational voyage. – Greta, a devoted auditor discovers something odd about a survey mission, but when she reports it to her superiors their reaction is not what she expect…

To eke out a meager living, Neela, a senior in her early 80’s, must rely on her social engineering and hacking skills to phish. While she is running a phishing scam, Adam, another guest at the senior complex where she lives,