by Jim Stitzel | Jun 14, 2024 | Stories
The Field of Frost lay glistening in the early morning sunlight. Tiny crystals of ice floated through the air just above the knee-high grass and frozen flowers. Wisps of fog rolled across the Field in various places and made tiny rainbows as the sun played its light...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 13, 2024 | Stories
I can’t survive without electricity. Like, it’s literally wired into my body. You see, I’m an android, and I need power to function. And since no one has been able to manufacture fully functional organic bodies yet, I’m wired up with old-fashioned electric power. I...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 11, 2024 | Stories
I don’t love you anymore. I’m sorry, but I think we both knew this was coming. I just don’t feel we’re compatible anymore, not since you went you into your cocoon and metamorphosed into whatever it is you are now. I’m human....
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 10, 2024 | Stories
Where had she put her reading glasses? Had she put them into her pocket dimension without thinking and then forgotten about it? She raised her left hand and waggled her fingers. A small portal no larger than a grapefruit opened up before her. It sparkled around the...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 9, 2024 | Stories
The light pooled into the room for the first time. The room itself had been conceived by an alien race in the heart of a black hole. Then it was harvested, like a fruit, from that black hole, a feat once thought impossible. The room was then taken to a space station...