This is a guest post by Inez Ponce de Leon.

Time travel stories have almost run their course: whether you’re reading The Time Traveler’s Wife or a classic by Jules Verne, it seems that man’s obsession with time travel has gotten tiring, if not overused. However, once in a while, there comes a story that makes you actually think: what if time travel was truly possible? What would happen? Where would you go?
continue reading "Time, Again by Tim Maly"

Wow – it has been a long time since I’ve cast the spotlight on flash fiction stories, and it’s high time to give it another try! With that in mind, here are a couple of cool little stories from the excellent web site 365 Tomorrows.
continue reading "Flash Fiction Monday: Gene Reprogramming and Generation Ships"

"The Night Train" is a 2010 science fiction short story by Lavie Tidhar. It is about a bio-medically altered bodyguard for a South East Asian crime lord.
continue reading "The Night Train by Lavie Tidhar"

"Source Decay" is a 2011 science fiction short story by Charlie Jane Anders. It is about the story of a nasty love triangle that persists for thousands of years.
continue reading "Source Decay by Charlie Jane Anders"

This is a guest post by Inez Ponce de Leon.

There is a danger of telling a story in the second person (i.e., You are walking through a desert landscape… or You remember being here before), which is why very few authors use it. There is a danger of being overindulgent and telling people what to believe and think, instead of showing them images that will allow them to fill the gaps in the story with their own imagination.
continue reading "The Day They Came by Kali Wallace"

One of our part-time reviewers, Martin Dugas, sent me some information about his latest short story “Romano, The Great Magician” so I am passing it on to you. He is offering the story as a free download during the next 3 days, so be sure to check it out.

“Romano, The Great Magician”, a 2012 flash fiction by Martin Dugas, is about a magician who attempts to time travel right before the eyes of his spectators.
continue reading "Romano, The Great Magician by Martin Dugas"

This is a guest post by Inez Ponce de Leon.

What happens if you teach a cat how to talk?

Saki (H.H. Munro) answers this question in his short story “Tobermory,” which tells a brief, meaty tale of the eponymous cat and his short adventure with British society. Being a lover of classic writers and fresh takes on science fiction, I decided to dive headlong into the many layers of the very short, but nevertheless engaging Tobermory. What I found was a surprising treatment of what would otherwise have been a cheesy Dr. Doolittle rip-off.
continue reading "Tobermory by Saki"

Something fun today!

A little over a year ago I reviewed a flash fiction story called “Chameleon” by Colin Harvey. It was a great story and many people mentioned to me how much they liked it.

Well, last week one of my readers, Sam Lemberg, wrote in to let me know that he had created a video based on the short story:
continue reading "Chameleon: A Story and a Video"

The Boneless One, a 2011 short story by Alec Nevala-Lee, is about a group of scientists at sea that come across an unusual cluster of octopuses.
continue reading "The Boneless One"

All The Painted Stars, a short story by Gwendolyn Clare, is about an alien that gets roped into helping some humans travel to the home planet of an extinct species.
continue reading "All The Painted Stars"

Description of Story:

This is an unusual and odd little tale that brings to mind the colorful poetics of Ray Bradbury and echoes of the imagery in early Arthur C Clarke works.

It’s set on a world that rotates so quickly the nights and days last only four hours each. The odd little place contains cities called Dreamlands, orange sands and silver waterways with twin moons constantly racing low overhead. And of course, there’s the Diamond Rain.
continue reading "Diamond Rain by Steve Buick"

Description:

Dawn Theocratis has been stuck for years. Her career is paused, her heart is stone and her dreams no longer breathe. Enter Bredmeyer Deed, co-worker.
continue reading "The Deceptive Smiles of Bredmeyer Deed by Susan Scutti"

"The Tomb of the Pontifex Dvorn" is a 2011 science fiction novelette by Robert Silverberg. It is about an historian and an archaeologist on an alien world who make a tremendously important discovery.
continue reading "The Tomb of the Pontifex Dvorn by Robert Silverberg"

Description:

Ellie Simmons lost the love of her life, her husband Daniel. And now, two years later, baby Daniel is born — a clone of the man she lost.
continue reading "The Baby by Karen A. Wyle"

"A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel" is a 2011 science fiction short story by Yoon Ha Lee. It is about several different alien species and how they view space travel.
continue reading "A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel by Yoon Ha Lee"

"Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair" is a 2011 science fiction short story by Ken Scholes. It is about an out-of-work clown who transports a strange monkey across the country.
continue reading "Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair by Ken Scholes"

"Earth Hour" is a 2011 science fiction short story by Ken MacLeod. It is about a rich, despised man who is being stalked by a futuristic assassin.
continue reading "Earth Hour by Ken MacLeod"

This is a guest post by Sarah Petersen

“Hello,” Said the Gun is a 2011 science fiction short story written by Jay Lake. The story is about a 12 year old girl who finds a talking gun in an old oak tree, it explores the issues of trust and survival.
continue reading "Hello, said the Gun By Jay Lake"

"Or We Will All Hang Separately" is a 2010 science fiction novelette by Nancy Jane Moore. It is about a small group of native Americans who travel to a future Los Alamos laboratories to investigate strange readings.
continue reading "Or We Will All Hang Separately by Nancy Jane Moore"

[Editor's Note: Author Sam Best has forwarded me some information about his latest SF short story, so I am passing it on to you. While this story sounds cool, please remember that I have not read it. If you give it a try let me know what you thought of it!]

“A Dream of Waking” is a short story written by Sam Best that takes place in a distant future where sleep is no longer necessary, as long as you have enough money. Unsuspecting space travelers are captured and entombed in plastic life-support coffins, forced to sleep all but two minutes of every year. Their dream-energy is harvested and sold to the masses, allowing the highest bidder to remain awake indefinitely.
continue reading "A Dream of Waking by Sam Best"