During a quiet late shift at a rural TV station, two staffers discover their broadcast has mysteriously crossed into a parallel reality—one where a familiar celebrity’s life has taken an impossible turn.
This week’s story is The Star by H.G. Wells, which might be a prequel to The War of the Worlds. There’s actually a cameo by Ogilvy the Astronomer and the Martians, who are watching all of the hijinks on Earth from afar… probably with less envious eyes than they are in War of the Worlds.
A night-shift nurse discovers a ghostly presence lingering in an empty hospital bed, its vital signs still active on the monitor years after the patient’s death.
This week’s story is The Shrine by Walt Sheldon. A skeptical American journalist journeys to a remote Japanese shrine in search of a story about magic—but what he finds challenges his understanding of everything
A screenwriter battling exhaustion and mounting pressure finds the line between fiction and reality dissolving when her dark, brooding anti-hero begins to rewrite his own story—and refuses to stay on the page.
This week’s story is Infiltration by Algis Budrys. An alien sleeper agent—hiding in human form for half a million years—senses the end of his mission approaching, as enemies prepare for the final move in a secret war humanity never knew it was hosting.
A weary ER nurse's routine night is upended when a mysterious, burned patient from the future arrives with a cryptic warning of an impending disaster—and only she can stop it.
This week’s story is Hang Head, Vandal By Mark Clifton. On a desolate Martian plain, a discarded spacesuit stuffed with straw sways from a homing tower—left behind by a crew fleeing the silent guilt of having unknowingly ignited the slow, unstoppable destruction of an alien civilization hidden beneath the dust.
After a grueling night at the studio, a TV producer wakes to find himself trapped in a time loop—repeating the same day again and again—until a mysterious figure appears with a cryptic clue that might be his only way out.