Aaron Trudeau The noises started three nights after they moved in. At first, the family assumed it was the pipes settling. Then they began to move. All around the house, that frantic scratching shifted from place to place within the drywall. They believed it was some kind of animal. The father spent hours on his…
The Astounding Outpost is open to short-fiction submissions for our regular periodical and future themed anthologies. Recommended length We prefer short stories between 1,500 and 5,000 words. Human writing The Outpost focuses on human writing. We will consider work created with AI assistance, but we do not accept AI-generated fiction. Our regular periodical is an…
A gig-economy vampire hunter tries to survive New York City while trading prediction-market contracts on her own kills.
By Garth Brook “Where’s the server?” Professor Daniel Mercer turned from the passenger window. “What?” “The server,” Pieter van Rensburg said. “Where is it?” They had been arguing about evolution for the better part of an hour. The road ran almost straight ahead of them through the Eastern Free State, climbing slowly towards the sandstone…