Frightmare At 35,000 Feet
**Frightmare at 35,000 Feet** The co-pilot was beginning to question the competency of his superior officer aboard Flight 571 when the captain began ranting about robots stealing his luggage as he ran naked down the center aisle of the plane. ...
Pink Slime
_ **Pink Slime** _ Roger was consuming a hamburger for dinner when he heard on the evening news that much of the beef sold in supermarkets was supplemented by meat byproducts sterilized by ammonia, making an additive substance that was called,...
Dead, Two...
Alex considered the spirit sitting on his living room sofa watching _America's Funniest Videos_, and wondered what he had done to deserve its presence. While he appreciated that the entity had kept him from getting roughed up and probably killed on the...
Deadfox
On his lunch hour away from his menial, soul-sucking job, Alex blundered upon a downtown store which didn't seem to fit in the 21st century. Drawn like a moth to the flame, Alex ventured into the small establishment, wondering why he had never noticed...
The Cup
Around 2,000 years ago, the founder of a major religion staggered down the Via Dolorosa, sorely oppressed by the ponderous weight of the wooden cross that he had been made to bear. Being scourged by a leaded whip and then led away to crucifixion...
Wolfbane
The howls of the beast rang through the darkness of the night that enveloped the eighteenth century German forest, a deep and throaty sound. The sheep instinctively feared the large and strange predator that they knew lurked out in the darkness, and...
Shifters
Jim had taken Elaine for a walk in the deep forest. It was one of their favorite cheap dates, plus as their relationship deepened, he felt compelled to tell her something before they went any further. It was something that Jim felt she...
A Journal of the Plague Year
It was during the time after the Coronavirus had mutated to the Carnival Virus that the discovery had been made that public protection was possible against the new threat only while wearing full clown regalia, so Ted trudged around the aisles of his...
A Corpse's Shell
Alex the fox didn't know how long he had been dead; perhaps it was for ten days, perhaps ten years. Time didn't mean a heck of a lot once you were dead, as its measurement was irrelevant once you existed beyond time. His body was no longer...
Regeneration
**Regeneration** Alan had read that your bodily cells regenerate themselves constantly, and that if you look down at your legs, you'll have a new pair in three months! Well, that sounded like a good deal to him since he had hoped for a more...
Spare Change
**Spare Change** Terry was awakened from a sound sleep by the sound of hooves on the floor and snorting in the next room; a moment later, the floors shook as a stampede commenced. "Oh no!," bemoaned Terry, "The buffalo are at it...
Jurassic Encounter
**Jurassic Encounter** by ff\_b The image first became apparent to me in the discoloration on the wall of my shower; it was a figure, but not one quite human. My eyes squinted as I tried to understand what I was seeing, when...