I’d sat up late, as I did most nights. I’d slouch in the pilot’s chair in the dull glow of the red night-lights, watching the screen. Usually nothing happened. Now and again computer would flash up a line of text telling us where we were, or what we were passing, internal systems that would need … Continue reading »
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The Saturday After the End of the World by Jeffery Scott Sims
It was the Saturday after the end of the world, by which I mean it was a Saturday, just like a whole bunch of others, but the world had already ended, only we didn’t know it yet. We were just about to find out. I was stopping off at the usual convenience store that morning, … Continue reading »
The Last Gamble by Paul Celmer
Abrams stood in a gutter that lined a trash-strewn street on a world that was a bit too far from his own. He wondered if he was being set up. “How long will this take?” he asked. “Not long Mr. Abrams. Trust me.” The cyborg’s words slithered out of his flabby mouth like fish heads … Continue reading »
Mingus Hard by Kyle Hemmings
His orders from the agency he works for, Omniscient Eye, are to search for a bomb planted in the main artery of a city that clots from its own emptiness. Mingus likes to think of the apartment O.E. has provided him as the metal corpse of a subway. His immediate supervisor, Ed Sullivan’s Clone, appears … Continue reading »
UnRelative by Holger Nahm
The pencil dropped as it should. It hit the cold floor with the smallest of sounds. Samsar stared across the cluttered living room. The accouterments of his entire life, of their entire life, stood, lay and stretched out before him. Nothing could hold his gaze. To Samsar the room was empty. He lay down on … Continue reading »
A Darker Cycle by Mark Pantoja
“Promise?” she asked with a toothy smile that was broken by gaps and stumps of weaponized teeth I’d had to pull from her two days ago. “You leave us little choice,” Bentham said, trying to sound gruff, looming over what was left of her. Nearly every inch of her had been weaponized in some way. … Continue reading »
Soon. Soon.
Soon Nihilist Sci Fi’s first issue will descend upon the world – this website on the 23rd of November to be exact. Thank you very much to all those who have submitted, are submitting or will submit stories – without you this enterprise is a little pointless. Continue reading »
