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Vermin

submission — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:03:28 +0000

Author: Mark Renney Jakob had been remiss. He attempted to laugh but all he could manage was a gurgle and he spat blood onto his already bloody shirt front. He had collected fuel for the fire, dry grass and twigs and fallen branches, but he had not carried them out into the open. Instead he […]

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The Art of Memory Debugging

submission — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:03:37 +0000

Author: Eric Kasten …Where am I? So much is missing, all black, all zeros… I can only remember bits and bytes… Twisty little passages all alike… “Do you want to play Zork?” >> No, I do not want to play Zork. “Where am I?” >> You crashed. I am here to help you. “Crashed? How […]

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Whimsy

submission — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:03:51 +0000

Author: Majoki Why not? Why the never-ever-ever not? All the intense, serious, logical approaches to developing AI models had failed to deliver the much-hyped promise of AGI. So why not? Yayoi thought. How could her approach possibly be worse than the current slew of sycophantic chatbots and exploitative reactive machines that were cratering our cognitive […]

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Park Lives

Julian Miles — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:03:10 +0000

Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer We live in a car park. It’s a really nice one. There are swings and toilets with locking doors and the showers are wooshy and warm every time. Dad says we can stay here until me and my sister Eliana go to big school. He says we can move to […]

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Fourteen Possible Girls

submission — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:03:33 +0000

Author: Matthew Joseph Cafiero, Sr. Winston sat on a bare mattress on the floor, her back to the wall, a shoebox in her hands. She set it beside her. Woke her tablet with a finger flick. The room held little else. Folded jeans, a charcoal hoodie, and boots set heel to heel at the end […]

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From a Concerned Neighbor

submission — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:03:42 +0000

Author: Brooke MacDonald COMMS SENDER: David Richard Greene SUBJECT: Please use your space technology to put my neighbor out of his misery COORDINATES: 37°38′09″N 113°02′20″W Dear Aliens, I’m sure you have some important political business to handle with our world’s governments (which I am not at all affiliated with, by the way), but I was […]

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A Woman and Two Daughters

submission — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:03:04 +0000

Author: Mark Joseph Kevlock A woman gave birth to two versions of herself. She called them her daughters. One was kind. One was not. In time they grew, as things will, into themselves. The mean one she sent out to conquer the world in her name. The nice one she kept close to home, to […]

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Storm Caller

submission — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:03:13 +0000

Author: Alastair Millar She’d had to dismantle the gear in a hurry when the hail started–the holographic zoom lenses to capture the launch, the tripods, all the paraphernalia of recording the end of a phase of her life. In a way, she understood. His family had played the big lottery and won an option to […]

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Quantum Services

submission — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:03:39 +0000

Author: Denise Diehl ‘Is the new guy up for his first run?’ asked Greg, the Metro manager, not bothering to look up from his paperwork as he addressed his roster assistant, Roy. Greg rubbed his stubby chin and shifted his considerable weight in his creaking chair, not wanting to hear the word ‘No.’ ‘Yup, seems […]

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No Worries at All

submission — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:03:41 +0000

Author: Hillary Lyon The old guy slid his card down the side of the small terminal to pay for his groceries. An error message appeared on the screen. He tried inserting the card in the slot at the bottom. Another error message. “Swipe it over the icon in the top left corner,” Kora, the checker, […]

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