Goshka fell asleep on the tram and refused to wake up when we reached our stop. Marina had to carry him as she squeezed through the crowd on the packed tram toward the exit. I struggled to keep up, wrangling my bag and a pair of suitcases....

THEY ARE COMING Teshana Wright Gizmodo.com Darlene McKinnon saw aliens long before the rest of us did. Fifteen years ago she was serving as a helicopter mechanic at Nellis AFB, making regular flights back and forth to the Creech UAV base....

Of course they sent a poet. He was quick on his feet, electric, stepping lightly through the portals we opened for him into and across the committee’s carefully Chosen Moments of history. He would only ever stop at each one long enough to read the poem he had composed especially for it....

1. Wherever the light of day cannot reach, that region belongs to the darkness. This truth applies everywhere in the universe, even in this ship named Sunlight. It is here, in the darkness of the Sunlight’s hibernation chamber, that I will kill the third person....

One of Dunblane’s enormous replacement players elbowed Liam in the mouth. Numbing pain like the coldest of nights radiated through his lips and gums. It was one of ten thousand cuts and bruises this bloody game had dealt him in the past three days, but the inches and feet hurt more than the blows....

The bartender says, “We don’t serve faster-than-light particles.” A tachyon enters a bar.   We’re back to Helsinki 2017. The summer is in full bloom and the city is a sea of foliage: alive, fresh, and sunny. It looks so different from 2030, and don’t even get me started on post-war Helsinki....