Voice: Hey, hey, you two! Nar: They stopped and stared into the gloom trying to make out who was calling them. They could faintly see the silhouette of a man in the alley. They stepped forward and into the darkness. Man: Hey, do you want a good time? Do you want some coke or some [...]
And here we are with yet another podcast! Not only did we go through great pains to deliver aural madness *cough* pleasure to you each month, we’ve decided to make this edition just a little bit special, as we read out our fairy tale-themed flashes to the accompanying sounds of Stalko and Monobrowmp – two [...]
The first time Olaf Olafsson heard the music, he was sitting slumped on a chair in the cosy kitchen of his little cottage, waiting to be served a big bowl of his wife’s best pork stew. Olaf Olafsson sat up, exclaiming “did you hear that Margi, that strange tune?” His wife, who was ladling out [...]
He had left the rundown seaside town of his childhood years on an early morning bus, a battered rucksack on his back and vague, commonplace dreams of success in the big city filling his head. He returned now, in the last faint glow of a September evening, in a Corvette with a line of fresh [...]
Click here for more tales of Dr. Millie and her undead raven: Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V (1) Part V (continued 2) Part V (continued 3) Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part IX Part X Part XI Part XII Part XIII Part XIV Part XV In which a ball [...]
A historical excerpt from the Ultranauts archive. RECORD BEGIN, PRESS PLAY TO START TAPE It’s hard to tell where the news was heard first… ..By most accounts it was at Baikonur Cosmodrome, from whose Site no. 1 the Vostok 3KA-3 rocketed off to the skies a week earlier. Propoganda at the time claimed it was [...]
Our stable of writers prepare to venture into lands unknown with this EXPLORATION flash week, prepared ahead of our themed issue which also welcomed outside submissions, and which you should also check out now! Schlock being a broad church, we did our best to stretch the theme to its (limitless) limits, with quieter pieces offsetting [...]
It wasn’t hormones. No, really, it wasn’t. “Such a blanket excuse,” Eliza tutted, thinking out loud. “Blankets? Mmmm, blankets,” her dog said. It had learned to speak two weeks ago, and was still getting used to conversations. “Binky,” Eliza said, desperately searching for the heater’s remote control. “Binky, I like blankets too, but talking [...]
This journey to the Moon had not started well and showed no signs of improving the longer she waited, in the back of a four seater Minx 18v (“a Supercraft for all Tides!” “Style your Speed”) drinking luke-warm coffee out of a thermos the same shade of pink as the boat’s droop-snout bow and broad [...]
The lights glitter enticingly over the water, the high-pitched funfair music like any Pavlovian bell rings in the ears of children, who drool involuntarily as they float by excitedly on clouds of candy-floss contentment. By the entrance a girl stands alone, awkward and unsure, waiting for her friends to show up. As she looks [...]
