Introductory Antimemetics
Junior Researcher Kim's been working for the Foundation for all of four hours and he feels pulverised, as if an anvil were dropped on his head in that first introductory lecture. It's lunchtime, and…
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I Need You to Understand
Ben was dead.
Mummy Brown
“I got him at a bazaar in Cairo,” Wallner said with a wicked little grin and then finished the last of his Chateau Cheval Blanc which had…
Beyond the Middle of Nowhere
I’m no stranger to rough travel. Having backpacked around much of the globe, I’m quite accustomed to reliance on even the sketchiest forms…
RMS: Rotting Man Syndrome
Our lost, loitering kind paced in infinite death spirals within the confines of our grotty, ghetto pens. Enrichment was sorely that, as…
Sockie
Sockie is lying in his bed. He is emotionally hurt and tired.
I Got Here First
The eyes of one Baxter Holmes rested on the window of the rural two-story home, meeting a duplicate pair. But not a reflection. Another…
To Be Summoned
Many rituals and games summon a specific entity that seems to exist as part of the process itself. But have you considered that sometimes…
The Strangest Apocalypse
I saw the end of the world, and its harbinger, from the top of a mountain. It’s possible that nobody else had as good a view as I did, but…
Dead Men Tell No Tales
The following entries were recovered from a weather-damaged journal found near the abandoned Indo-Pak border post of Kargil, Jammu &…