The year is 2209, and the hour has grown late for the human race. Famine and disease have drastically compounded the misery of a warming planet. With many billions scrambling after the Earth’s depleted resources, a multinational agency known as...
As a San Francisco co-national, it was inevitable— maybe it was even fair — that Anthony Boucher should be the first to snare the writing talents of Miriam Allen deFord for his publication. But it could not last. The girl was too good to keep...
The world has just found out that it’s going to end, with a huge unstoppable asteroid hurtling towards the planet. Claire is in Toronto with her two young sons. Her husband, Tom, is on the other side of the country and must find his way home in an...
For the first and last time, he was up there on the lightning green, where some have a prayer — some have a putt — and some, unbelieving, snatch greatness from another man’s...
Author’s Note: This was a short story I wrote about a D&D character I had. Though the story stands on its own merit (I hope), it takes place within a detailed genre that is wholly unexplained. Hopefully you will enjoy it without the...