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Author: Mark Renney The Sweepers are always plentiful, inconceivably there isn’t ever a shortfall but always enough recruits coming through on that metaphorical conveyor belt. A surplus filling out the application forms, readily signing on the dotted line, undergoing the intensive training programme from which they emerge ultra-fit and battle ready. Awaiting deployment, all new […]

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Author: Majoki It’s hugely satisfying to watch the person who murdered you, go bonkers. Gyrsen was thrashing like a madman as company security restrained him outside the boardroom. He frothed and spittle flew everywhere as he pointed my way, screaming, “He’s here! He’s right here! He’s going to kill us all. Don’t you see what’s […]

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Author: Andrea Tillmanns The colony had called for help, and we had come – with a heavily armed spaceship. But there was nothing here for us to fight. The planet was empty, except for the long-decayed corpses of the colonists. And the shadows that first invaded our dreams after landing and then became more and […]

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Author: Alzo David-West “Citizen. You are called before the Court of Will.” “What’s my crime, Counsel?” “Your crime, Citizen, is that of being born outside the Will of the State.” “My birth was out of my control. I had no choice in it.” “No, Citizen. Your parents, who were banned to reproduce, fertilized what would […]

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Author: Daniel Miltz They live remote, because living remote they remember everything. The neighborhood leans inward like old men listening, and the people hold faces that don’t blink. During the day, the ghosts come out wearing the habits they died in: a man still counting coins that lost their value in another country, a woman […]

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Author: Keisha Hartley Amara’s head knocked against the cold car window, jolting her awake. Her fingers were numb from clutching the long black case on her lap. The Uber driver sped down the winding path unbothered by the rain. Ahead, the dark spires of her grandmother’s home jutted above the crest of the driveway hill […]

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Author: Majoki Well into the neopandemic I noticed the countdown. Inside my left eyelid. A faint image, like a digital timer flickering. I couldn’t make out distinct digits in the rolling blur of numbers so there was no real way of knowing if it was counting up or down. But my gut knew. Immediately. Things […]

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Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer Jingle bells my ass. Actually, if I’d had one, the ex-wife probably would have. Covered it’s harness in fairy lights, too. She loved sparkly tat. Guess that’s why she hooked up with the bright-eyed pretty boy I used to be. Then she got pregnant and we both got ugly. I […]

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Author: Alastair Millar Grandpa Jack had a generous ‘meritorious service’ pension from his time in the Terran Space Force, but he never talked about his time in uniform, or shared war stories. “I’d rather not,” he’d say diffidently, or, if pressed, “Just not much to tell, really”. Everyone around him quietly assumed that his off-world […]

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Author: Matthew Luscher It began to pour as the bus pulled in. The driver shot me a puzzled look as I stepped off and made a gesture clearly hinting for me to get back onboard. I ignored him. It had been half a mornings journey down bumpy country roads, following the recommendation of a tattered […]

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