Every night the claypot carries Sohni to her lover across the river. Until one day the river seeps in, and…

Red lights pulsated. My digital olfaction detected smoke. I reached an escape pod, but my titanium legs locked up. Ice-blue…

The hologram glitches, my husband’s face fading in and out of focus. “Nick, there’s — in the —. – have…

Jenna turns to me and smiles. “Good morning, handsome.” “Good morning yourself.” I grin, stroking her perfect alabaster skin as…

I kick the car window. It only cracks. “Vehicle damage detected. Amalgamated Driverless Incorporated will charge repairs to your card…

“Scatter my clinkers,” the Hardy 1100 says. Its carapace is still warm. “I will. You were a friend, a mentor,…

Reddish light bathed the starship’s hull as it coasted into orbit, creaky after its 500-year journey. Engines were shut down,…

Dad gave his life to see me safe, to get me to this pod headed for the orbiter. Safe from…

Hush, little baby. Tonight, we sleep underground, beneath Martian sand-flowers and worms and bones. The walls of the space station…