ANNOUNCEMENT

Martin’s Sci-Fi Storage Unit is Open

It’s a place where I keep my sci-fi stuff

The small fern glistened as light started to fill the sky. It was covered with a thick reddish frost. Palesa removed a glove and dusted some of it off with her fingers, before quickly putting the glove back on. The green of the half-unfurled frond was now visible. She called her companion.

FICTION

Bruv?

A Surprise

SCIENCE FICTION

The Old Man at The Movie Theater

A laugh

“Before you go into that room I have to tell you something!”

“You’re… me? How did…?”

“No time: I time travelled back five years to–”

“Yeah sure.”

How often do you travel back in time to give yourself the single most important piece of advice ever…

SCIENCE FICTION

The Honest Stove

A Warning

Dear Victor, I’m leaving you.

I’ve been unhappy for years. With your ghastly obsessions with electricity and body parts. With your paranoia about being followed — frankly, formerly dear husband, it’s disquieting you maintain a belief in monsters. Believing you can create them!? You are not God! The eccentricities I found…

–It’s just a routine procedure for going on the mission.

–And it means that I get full sight?

–Yes, you will get your vision back.

–No.

–No?

–Not back. I was born blind, didn’t ‘lose’ my sight. I never had it.

The anesthetic flooded his system. His last thoughts were “I wish routine examinations didn’t need all this drama”. His eyes closed.

When he opened them, he was in a different room. More airy and open, brighter, though his head was groggy. More serene than the little examination room he was in. “I hope my insurance can pay…

The signal had travelled 26 light years. Four notes, over five seconds. Beatriz heard it first.

They listened back to it. It was faint, but she found it familiar. The pattern changed. The four notes repeated once, then the key changed and that repeated before disappearing. They both listened a few times, baffled.