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The Invader by Alfred Coppel
A lone alien scientist slips down to Earth on a scouting mission, hoping to prove that this planet is the answer to his dying race’s prayers. Everything goes smoothly until his first steps out among the locals, when things start going very wrong in ways he can’t begin to understand.… Listen ⇢
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Love by Aurea Fenn
A casual date at a neon-lit arcade takes a turn when Olivia wants to try a fortune-telling android, and her skeptical boyfriend Danny can’t resist explaining exactly why it’s a scam. Aurea Fenn delivers a witty, bittersweet short about cynicism, missed connection, and what happens when a machine says the… Listen ⇢
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The Winner & Maiden Voyage – Chapter Eight: Hong Kong
The Winner,” follows an ordinary man named Dennis who improbably wins a full-ownership condo aboard Atlas through a contest — only to find small, impossible details waiting for him in his new home that make the win feel a lot less like luck. Listen ⇢
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Zeritsky’s Law By Ann Griffith
When a Los Angeles housewife’s cat accidentally freezes solid in her deep-freeze and thaws out completely unharmed, it sparks a bizarre new industry: quick-freezing human beings, for a fee, until they’re ready to be defrosted Listen ⇢
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Hail Nedovra by Samantha E Pierce
Inspector Ivan Yegorov spends his days at a border checkpoint stamping papers APPROVED or DENIED with quiet, methodical pride — a devoted bureaucrat serving his nation. But as the day unfolds, we learn the horrifying human cost hiding underneath his routine Listen ⇢
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Breaker’s Yard & Maiden Voyage – Chapter Seven: The Team
During a routine compliance job aboard a decommissioned Navy ship being torn apart for scrap. What Marcus Webb encounters alone in her stripped, powerless corridors is impossible to explain, and impossible to shake. It’s another quiet thread of the unexplained, and our first real look at the man who’s about… Listen ⇢
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Membership Drive by Murray F. Yaco
An alien named Keeter makes an unplanned emergency landing near the Jefferson Memorial and treats the entire assembled US government with breezy, condescending indifference — right up until he needs a favor. What follows is a wry first-contact comedy where Earth’s eager officials keep giving away more than they realize,… Listen ⇢
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The Unobserved Observer by F. Davies-Mouncher
Late for school and dreading the stares of her classmates, Olivia gets an anxiety she never asked for when she suddenly realizes no one around her can see or hear her at all. What starts as a terrifying morning quickly turns into something else entirely, as Olivia begins to understand… Listen ⇢
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They Can’t Stop All of Us & Maiden Voyage – Chapter Six: The Ask
Hannah Bennett covers the infamous “Storm Area 51” gathering as a journalist, and catches something in the Nevada night sky that her camera can barely explain, let alone she can. Listen ⇢
