The Revenge of a Teenage Genius Bryan Callway had to juggle the competing interests of his life. There were so many things for a seventeen-year-old boy to keep track of. There was time spent with his parents, who loved and cherished him. There was time...
“Hey Syd, I wanna talk to you for a sec,” I said motioning him in my direction. He shuffled towards me, adjusting his black-square shaped spectacles tightly onto his nose-bridge. “Yo Marcus, what’s happening, baby?” Syd stopped about a foot in front of me...
The old gentleman took his seat in the solarium as he did every day at 3:00. He looked out at the driving rain and smiled. Sitting back, he took a small metal object from his pocket and pressed the button on the side. In an instant, he was sitting at a de...
She awoke with a start, or had she been awake all along? This had happened to her before, and yet, she still did not understand. Each time it happened, she recalled a few more details, but they were still quite confusing. And like each time before, she wa...
Dear Reader, Nobody believed our story. But the events I relate to you below really happened. It may seem fantastic, but truth is always stranger than fiction. You can make up your own mind—I only want to set the record straight before—well, you’ll see… O...
Sienna watched the sky and waited. She didn’t fancy getting caught in the rain without good cause. A simple shower wouldn’t suffice, there needed to be a storm with thunder and lightning. Without it, heading down to the abandoned depot would be a fruitles...
The not too distant future… “Boo!” “Shit!” Charise yelped and jumped in her chair. She glanced back and snapped, “Stop doing that!” “Only if you stop falling for it,” Dunlop chortled, leaning his chin over her shoulder. He smiled, further crinkling his wr...
Beth Taylor, a fresh-faced twenty-two-year-old, semi-attached lesbian sat in her spartan apartment glancing through travel brochures. Since graduating from THE Ohio State University in the Spring she was determined to do more traveling than a clumsy NBA g...
With its romantic arches and ancient red brick walls and ceilings, it was the perfect cosy hideaway for our illicit trysts. The Dulham Laboratory just outside Axford had been built on the site of an old stately home that had been destroyed in a horrendous...
Xander Mallory was feeling happy. The sale of the stolen Faster than Light (FTL) drive equipment had gone smoothly. Xander had used the portal to steal the FTL equipment without being detected and then sold the technology to the other big corporate combin...
Call me Elspeth. I want to be clear. I am not cheating on Richard. It's just that I finally have come to terms with what I am. Who I am and what I will become. I am special. I knew they were weird feelings. I thought it seemed odd to feel them. I always...
The two consecutive thuds at my one-o’clock position grabbed my attention. The shockwaves and sudden strong gusts of wind were felt through the steering wheel, pushing the car into the empty oncoming lane. A strange, perfectly vertical dust devil formed i...
The butterfly effect is the idea that small things can have non-linear impacts on a complex system. In other words, small events act as catalysts for starting conditions. The concept is imagined with a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a typhoon -...
In the year 2020, I was nearly forty. I lived with my wife and our two kids. Once, I think I was happy in my marriage. Today, my wife and I go through the motions. It's never gotten so bad for either of us to step out, but it isn't the way it once was bet...
Here I was again back in the good old Summer of 88. It was the summer I first fell in love and nothing and no one had compared since. There were things I needed to do differently this time around and with the knowledge I had now that I could never have ha...
