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An Alien Encounter

Posted on November 1, 2022 by AR_Editor

by David Rudd  Paolo Tikalda lay in his sisal hammock, stirring the soupy air with a dangling leg. Sixty miles away, a Land Rover negotiated the Yucatan peninsula. Inside, Daniel Rhodesh and his camera crew baked like clay pots in … Continue reading →

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Episode Two: Inside the Bunker

Posted on July 1, 2022 by AR_Editor

Daylight from the open doorway illuminated a few feet of the interior. Something whirled, making a ratchet-like noise and he jumped, and then looked around. Rows and rows of tiny round, lights covered one wall. Hundreds of them, some blinking, … Continue reading →

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Episode 1: On the Killing Field

Posted on June 1, 2022 by AR_Editor

Simple. That’s what they claimed, but they — Darius and Carson and Debs, and many others – were dead, and Collin didn’t believe that the robots in the sky simply fired blindly at anyone running across the boulder-strewn killing field. … Continue reading →

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My Summer Vacation in the Wave State by Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Posted on May 5, 2022 by AR_Editor

My Summer Vacation in the Wave State Kendall Evans David C. Kopaska-Merkel  

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Planet Faraway by David Castlewitz

Posted on January 21, 2022 by AR_Editor

Planet Faraway David Castlewitz Nobody in Phil Stone’s Faraway appreciation group knew why news of the distant planet disappeared from every site that covered events out there. No artist renditions of the giant warships derived from fuzzy photographs sent back … Continue reading →

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The Higher We Rise, The Further We Fall by Melissa R. Mendelson

Posted on July 19, 2021 by AR_Editor

The Higher We Rise, The Further We Fall Melissa R. Mendelson Kicking at the dirt and leaves in front of him, Tommy trailed behind his friends, Billy and David. He paused for a moment to look back at the town. … Continue reading →

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Office Business by David Castlewitz

Posted on May 4, 2021 by AR_Editor

Office Business David Castlewitz Any day Jeff Ruskin spent with Uncle Marty was a great day, a day of adventure and fun, and only a subway ride away. Now that summer had come, his high school sophomore year finally at … Continue reading →

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A Night In, Shining Armour by David Barber

Posted on December 14, 2020 by AR_Editor

A Night In, Shining Armour David Barber It appeared in the Throne Room apparently, announced by unseen choirs and blinding light, and they say there was the purest scent too, of goodness and innocence, like the smells of childhood or … Continue reading →

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Means of Escape by J. David Harper

Posted on November 18, 2020 by AR_Editor

Means of Escape J. David Harper Margie found the bottle in the wall of an old house when she hammered through the drywall to make room for a new door. She looked around for her brother, but he was sawing … Continue reading →

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Ghosts In The Machine by David Barber

Posted on November 3, 2020 by AR_Editor

Ghosts In The Machine David Barber They were my first visitors since arriving here; what pass for priests in this benighted world. I am writing down what happened, with its guilty conclusion, before the sense of it escapes me. The … Continue reading →

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Bus Stop 126 by David Wright

Posted on September 18, 2020 by AR_Editor

Bus Stop 126 David Wright A scruffy man in a brown toque sat at bus stop 126, waiting. From time to time, he looked at his watch, out across the empty intersection and up at the bus stop billboard. The … Continue reading →

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The Settee & The Stairs by David Barber

Posted on September 18, 2020 by AR_Editor

The Settee & The Stairs David Barber Author Sea Chart, insisted the old chap, a stroke making words slippery as soap, though we had come to an understanding, like a glimpse of sky through forest canopy: a séance friction writer … Continue reading →

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Runaway Greenhouse Effect by David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Posted on June 17, 2020 by AR_Editor

Runaway Greenhouse Effect David C. Kopaska-Merkel Pastel pink saucers and their precious cargo: tiny round-cheeked critters and their mysterious heat-sucking tech drive a surprisingly hard bargain we got to keep Zanzibar and grateful for that

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Old Venus by David Barber

Posted on June 12, 2020 by AR_Editor

Old Venus David Barber Fuel gauge tapping empty, the rocket skims leviathans awash in steaming seas, before it sinks into the wet and suck of lush swamps. A hero makes his own luck. In the pulps, the feisty blond reporter … Continue reading →

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