Tortured to insanity by his boss and beaten to a pulp by the cops, Freddy is less than thrilled to discover he's still alive. But you know what they say: When life gives you...

It was about the end of the second year our little paradise went wrong. Friday was then about fourteen feet high to the bill of him, with a big, broad head like the end of a...

A Story Inspired by Medusa’s Sister and a Piece of Unplayable Piano MusicTo gorgonise. An old English word based on Greek. Means to have a paralysing effect on someone.Taken...

Handle the Most Difficult Girl in the Galaxy, or Everything Blows UpWhen an alien princess arrives, a jaded celebrity handler has to keep her happy. But will he manage to get...

The transitory mental aberration of Sidney Davidson, remarkable enough in itself, is still more remarkable if Wade's explanation is to be credited. It sets one dreaming of the...

"The War of the Worlds" is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells.The plot has been related to invasion literature of the time. The novel has been...

The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust your judgment, or...

It is doubtful whether the gift was innate. For my own part, I think it came to him suddenly. Indeed, until he was thirty he was a sceptic, and did not believe in miraculous...

Read more of the Cyberpunk Fairy Tales, a unique twist on the classic stories you grew up with. Sometimes dark and disturbing like the Grimm stories, other times new and relevant...

Avinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619 – 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine...