Janet looked out of the windshield as the Cessna 172 approached the airstrip carved out of the jungle that covered most of the tropical island. She could see the buildings that housed the world-famous Simian Institute and felt a combination of exhilaration and fear. Exhilaration that she, a lowly junior pre-veterinary student, had been selected as a student...
a note from the author: One of the things I enjoy about Science Fiction is the chance to take ideas that wouldn't work in the real world and have a little fun with them. A theme I find curious is the idea that aliens are studying Earth culture via old TV and radio broadcasts they've picked up from deep space, then basing all their in-sights and observations...
Human sex is a joke all across the Universe. For all other advanced species, sexual reproduction was carried out sensibly—outside the body, in a secure location, with the aim of birthing hundreds to thousands of offspring at a time. But many Earth fauna had evolved to need to fuck, to directly couple and begin gestation inside one animal or the other, an arr...
A hundred tiny mechanical legs legs skittered over the tile floor of the long hallway as they hauled the bloated yellow body of Mojo, the ruler of this dimension. Mojo was not in a good mood today because the ratings for his television stations had come in today. His seat of power was based upon his ratings because to the people of the Mojoverse, bad program...
Throughout history, beauty has been one of the ideas that have propelled the human race. Legend says that wars have been fought over beauty. Beauty in the form of art has been stolen during wars, and personal beauty has been mimicked (Marilyn Monroe look-alike contests) and copied (breast augmentation, rhinoplasty). When it comes to pinning a specific answer...
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Kal El of Krypton. Just call me Kal. Who am I? I don't know if you are ready for this. I am something you couldn't possibly comprehend. * I was born on the planet Krypton. My father Jor El was the leader of a society of humanoids almost identical to those of Earth. Jor El and his wife Lara had a son. That son is me...
It was an ordinary drinking night in the infamous Muleshoe Salloon, West Texas. All the regular biker rednecks were here: Joe Bob, and Jack the Crook, and of course Bubba and his brothers, Sam and Sonny. Real scum, they were. Woe unto whoever got on their bad side. It was just after midnight when a strange, muffled engine sound shook the entire salloon, as...
The world is a mad place, folks. Seriously. Sometimes I think it would be a good thing if the planet Earth were destroyed. Then I stop to think about what a colossal waste that would be. Because the world doesn't belong solely to the human race. There are countless animals and plants that thrive here too. Don't these life-forms have a right to live? I think...
[Sorry I haven't written in awhile, I've been in the Hospital a little over two months. Anyway, without further adieu…Graves Returns!] Well, Jimbo had been hanging around Jon's movie set for awhile, hiding out from the cops as best he could. After the meeting with Tara on the hood of the car, things went downhill. All James could remember is something about...
It was another hot day in the marketplace. Booths and stands filled the town's plaza but the crowds were small this afternoon. Sonja sold the last of her berries and vegetables to a hungry fellow and decided to close up show since business was slow. She and her teenage son, Miller, began taking down their booth. The scorching rays of the sun hit them when th...