Members of the Tri-City Literary Writers Group sipped green tea and waited in the farmhouse’s spacious kitchen. They’d been together for five years and recently switched their meeting location from a coffee shop to this rural dairy farm, after reading a newspaper article. This was their third meeting and they were excited...
In June 2013 we launched SHOWCASE, as what was originally planned to be the free weekly webzine member of the Rampant Loon Press family. In its original form SHOWCASE ran for twelve issues...
In June 2013 we launched SHOWCASE, as what was originally planned to be the free weekly webzine member of the Rampant Loon Press family. In its original form SHOWCASE ran for twelve issues...
From Pop Access Control, Pioneering, Quastroc Settlement, Subsect 12. Gestay success: Viable obtained at Quastroc. StandBy.... Settlement proclaims viab. Celebrate, merriment. Continue.... Seven day-units prev, Quastroc. Noted. Succ extract from materna cavity. Out-settler broadcast infoco conf single viab dubbed “Samdie762.” Breath. Mid-W healer plus obstric attend. Aid deliver. Jubilant. Ten day-units post, viab respir reg. [&hellip...
Zantoinell reclined in her bath pool, enjoying total contentment. The hot salt water was divine, and so was being the Supreme One of the Zarkindell Realm...
“Somebody probably though they were funny, calling this dump a sea.”...
The open doorway to the Jade Tortoise Room loomed before me, and I wanted to be anywhere but here. A State Security checkpoint was set up immediately to the left of the doorway, so I presented my passport for the third time since registering at the hotel desk the previous evening...
It was the city’s tradition to put up a memorial wherever a hero died. It was an even bigger tradition to have the owner of the land pay for the memorial. But the biggest tradition was to talk about the traditions...
When Cassie stepped out of the general store, she saw a horseman galloping into town like he had the devil on his heels. “Now who do you suppose that is?” she asked. Jake stopped his rocking chair, but said nothing...
“Listen. This is going to sound unbelievable, but it’s absolutely true. I’m speaking to you from the future.” “Don’t be daft.”...
On his fourth birthday, my son told me he wanted to leave. We must move on, he said, get away from this dustball while we still can. He was right, I knew, but he was talking about Firstfall, where for me, in spite of everything, love had bloomed...
Brad heaved what might be a truncated stainless steel water heater onto his table under the ancient live oaks. “Still peddling your miraculous apparatus?” Marquis said...
For the first time, there is another. I have always been alone, but now she permeates the ages just as I do, existing at once in all times and outside of time. She washes implacably over the past and future like a tide, asserting herself at every place and every time in a blink...
Rampant Loon Press is proud to announce: SCOUT’S OATH: A Planetary Romance, by Henry Vogel Book 2 in the Scout’s Honor Trilogy ISBN: 978-1-938834-43-1 (ebook) ISBN: 978-1-938834-44-8 (print edition,...
Christ stepped under center and began barking out signals, his long, lank tresses hanging out the back of his helmet. McMullen, the Raiders’ weak-side linebacker, was on his toes as if to blitz, but the Lord saw through this ruse and figured Oakland was probably going to drop into a Cover-2 zone...
Kirima’s ice skates hissed as she glided across her frozen pond. Four smooth strokes, then three crossovers, her left foot over her right, then four more strokes. Her skates left gouges and a trail of ice shavings. Her hair clung to her temples, and her breath misted in the cold air...
“Excuse me, young man?” Oh great. I was just about to level-up, now this. I finally get a 15-minute stretch of mindless zombie-killing fun, and grandma has to bring me back to reality. “Young man, I was told that you’re tech support?”...
Looking for the perfect little stocking-stuffer to go with that new Kindle or tablet you just bought as a gift for someone special? You can’t go wrong with The Book of Judith, by Judith Field. But don’t take my word for it. Read the reviews...
Her body was a temple—pristine, polished, worshipped by all. They came from far and wide to pay their respects. She was beautiful. She was at the heart of it all...
When he first returned, we flocked to him like gulls to a fishing trawler. Even after those of us nearest had grown used to his celebrity in our midst, people traveled planet-wide in a never-ending pilgrimage to view the great explorer, and even more, to smell him...
1. Sol Goodbye “Who will have my Silver Tongue?” I was young again, a teenager in a bathrobe surrounded by twenty adults in formal clothing, individuals I could no longer remember...
“More salt, would ya,” Colin instructed the restaurant 3-D food fabber, chucked his French fries in its tableside hopper. It whirred, then lit up with a thank you...
Stupefying Stories contributor TYLER TORK recently did a reading at the Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writer’s Showcase, along with several other Minneapolis-area authors. After a short-short about the encroachment of plastic flamingos, there’s a tale of the businesslike, civilized way to conduct an invasion...
The sun had just risen over the mountains as Maghnus trudged behind the group of nine people winding their way through the Tetons to the earth’s last living tree...
