by Karri Lybeck. These were the times of seeping tears. Commodities scarce, teeth grinding in a cold night with the gray snow beating on collars made of rugs, threaded, worn and weary. Eyes so gloomy, grim was the touch between you and I distant. These were the times demanding. Days

by Tom Strange. “Oh, how tiresome.” Creative-Spark RF774-326L, known as Raphael to his friends, took a drag from his cigarette as he stood outside his local café. A sign on the window read ‘NO ROBOTS’. Since the discovery of the creative spark, robots had become increasingly unpopular. Automation had been

by Lana Sinapayen. The debate ended, uncharacteristically, by an agreement. Oh, of course each of the two parties still thought the other was absolutely wrong; but they had agreed on the means to scientifically demonstrate that the others were idiots. There was one definitive solution to the issue, one experiment

by Jamie Woodcock. Fingers drummed on the console, waiting for the page to load. Light delay added stuttering to accessing information this far out. The news bubbled away in the background. “...available in all good stores and resupply stations. Now, the latest news from the belt is that Caldecott-Krüger will

We’re launching an open prompt for submissions to our next round of Red Futures Science Fiction writing! You can see our last sets of short stories which respond to the prompts New Planet [https://www.redfuturesmag.com/tag/prompt-1-new-planet/] and Utopia [https://www.redfuturesmag.com/tag/prompt-2-utopia/]. For our