Each of Sophia’s husbands, prior to their respective passing, attempted to anchor her to their present with a timepiece. Antoine’s…

Uncle Billy’s ancient bomb shelter was probably the only one ever to have a window. Secure in the steel box…

They rained from the sky shaped like fortune cookies, contrails combining to spell a dark message. Their ships shuddered, separated,…

‘Subject 36963, wake up,’ the box said. My eyes opened. I was naked. ‘Stand.’ I got up. ‘Do you know…

One family portrait, scored with laser blasts. Three plastic plates. DVDs, but nothing to play them on. No matter, the…

“The human race is doomed,” said the towering, green alien. “If you guess the cause, I will save it. Otherwise,…

I’m the last human on Earth, but I’m not sure where everyone’s gone. After awakening from my dissociative fugue, I…

My phone wandered off. Again. One day, it’ll cost me my job. It keeps floating down to the coffeeshop, and…

I carry the last remnant of human civilization aboard the Ark-7 — tens of thousands of embryos and the technology…