To read part 3, click here The Laboratory of Prof. H. The creature’s only eye looked up at the man in a white overcoat. It was obviously afraid and hungry, but it was also puzzled: ‘where am I, and why am I here?’ Professor H. poked the baby Cyclops gently with his pen, and it [...]
A FLASHFICTION SERIAL FROM THE ULTRANAUTS ARCHIVE to read part 8, click here! If there’s one thing the Poles can do well, thought Colomba, it’s the booze. Servers were making their way through the various crowds at the Casino Grand Hall opening, trays piled with foods and drinks. Colomba picked up a champagne flute filled [...]
Click here to read the previous story Being able to move between reality and dreams is definitely fun. But it’s not always a pleasure trip. Especially if you are being bossed around by an old Gypsy woman who happens to be an Oracle. When I encountered her in my dream a couple of weeks ago, [...]
A is for All the things not on this list. B is a Bear going Bump Bump Bump down the stairs, Behind a child who will always remember that sound. C is for “all the Cavities of the Coynte and the inability to stiffen a swivelling tongue more polluted than the Cheeks of a suburban [...]
There was a door – whether it was real or imaginary didn’t really matter – it was solid enough in her memory, though she sometimes thought that she might have dreamt it. The house belonged to her grandparents; it was an extraordinary house with enormous winding marble staircases and rooms filled with treasures from foreign [...]
Click here for more tales of Dr. Millie and her undead raven: Part I Part II Part III *** Millie glanced at the diploma hanging next to her mirror. –”Dr. Millicent Fethermann…hmm” That’s how the voice of the hand that wrote it would have trailed off as it grudgingly signed that piece of paper. In [...]
Read the previous episode! Level -5, the Lava Suite. Sometimes, I sit in my office and daydream about what I’d do if I had money. You know, a lot of it. I’d buy myself some decent clothes, a car, nice place to live, a hooker or two. Nothing fancy. I always preferred low key. But [...]
He drowned in books. The magazines gave him some purchase over the mess, but the books kept hurtling back into his face: vilest pornography back-to-back with ‘three volume novels’ satirised by Wilde… he was being swallowed up by an indiscriminate flurry of literature, in the broadest, most discomforting of forms. *** Larry had decided to [...]
March is almost ending and the weather is crazy. It is unusual for this time of year to have more than one sunny day but we’ve had a week of it so far. Most Seattleites didn’t know what to do. Some went for picnics and others, like me, preferred to go in for overtime at [...]
They had been on this planet for three of its short years – many of the youngsters had never been in one place for that long before. Still, they did not make themselves too comfortable. The ramshackle city in the desert, the vast mining rigs stripping minerals out of the mountains to the north, the [...]
