Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Stories Archive

The Quick And The Dead by Brian K. Lowe - It’s funny how shy murder victims can be when they have to testify in court. I knew a DA once whose entire case fell apart just because the victim had been

A Shard Glows In Brooklyn By Alex Shvartsman - One by one, I set off car alarms. I walked along the curb and methodically gave each parked car a gentle kick, just hard enough to trigger the siren.

The Turning Away by Casy Dee - He had developed a few theories over the past hundred or so years; he’d had plenty of time to think on it. He’d not exactly been normal in life; as a spirit-talker he’d used

Calling Home by Jeffrey Wilson. A Sc-Fi Story. It wasn’t the heat this time; it was the friggin’ sand. Those first couple of weeks the heat bothered him the most– no question. This place felt less than a mile

A Stolen Bicycle by Abbie Bernstein - Gwen was not in the habit of asking people if they were crazy when she first met them, but she made an exception for the man standing on her porch in the rising dusk.