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With apologies to Bertrand Russell The eminent antitheist and essayist Dr. Brussels dreamt that he died and found himself, against all expectation,

ANTICLIMATIC Arlan Andrews, Sr. Nervous tension thickened palpably in the NASA control center as flickering kinetoscope signals from the descending Martian lander

NASCENT Katie Winkler We were frankly amazed that it picked her. Of course, we had, as a group of the top minds

IT’S ME OR THE ROBOT Mark Kirkbride “Is that a leg?” Sabrina didn’t know whether to dash back through the door or

DOUBLE GRAVE James Fitzsimmons “Where’s my digitalis!” “Here, Dad.” “Where’s my magazine?” “Here, Dad.” “That’s Sports Illustrated. I want Sporting News!” “They

CLOSE ENOUGH J.R. Johnson After the hospitals, the grief, and all the damn flowers, Patrick Cole figured killing Hackett would be the

FRANK HERBERT, PHOTOJOURNALIST Erik Jorgensen Famous people typically have mundane pasts in unknown places before they stepped into the limelight. Some have

YAO’S WORLD Matthew Barron The bubble hummed. It had grown into a dark globe and was partially submerged in the table top.

CARTOGRAPHERS Benjamin Le Gros When the breeding programme began, mankind had only reached the nearest edges of our solar system. We hadn’t

NATURE OR NURTURE? TIME TELLS John Kaniecki “I must condemn your utter contempt for ethics,” Rejeck the research director blasted away in

LIFE OF ORPHEUS Carl Grafe Orpheus. They call me Orpheus. The asteroid had felt the weight of the shuttle displacing its particles,

CYCLES WITHIN CYCLES Darrel Duckworth The End had come. The universe was dead. No more galaxies shining in the darkness. No walls

NEW APPLIANCES Brandon McNulty Seven A.M. brought sunshine and the usual droning from beside the couple’s bed. A young boy named Alarm

ASHA David E. Seaman The ambulance came to a stop at the small town Midwestern ED doors. A doctor waited for Zach

JAVI AND PARMA Ellen Denton From the Galaxapedia, Volume III Chapter XIV: “Members of the Wakinian race are born as two connected

ACTUS REUS Patrick MacPhee “Mrs. Davidson, is that man in this courtroom?” “H-he is,” stuttered a middle-aged woman, who sat up awkwardly