Fiction Index

The Future Fire will publish social, political, and speculative cyberfiction. Any story that takes a world unlike our own in one small way (be it science fiction set in the future, speculative in the past, a fantastic parallel universe, a psychedelic dream) and uses that setting to examine some aspect of our own world with a social and political conscience, is broadly within our purview... so long as we think it's great. Surprise us. Challenge the expectations of our commodified little world.

We are also archiving fiction from 2004-2008 for Whispers of Wickedness.

For instructions on how to send us stories see the submission guidelines.

(Newest stories are highlighted in peach.)

• ‘Wings So Foreign’, Frank Ray Ard, 2009 (3000 words)
• ‘Drown or Die’, Therese Arkenberg, 2010 (4600 words)
• ‘In the Shadow of Kakadu’, RJ Astruc, 2007 (4000 words)
• ‘How You Make the Straight’, RJ Astruc, 2010 (5900 words)
• ‘Letting Go’, Neil Ayres, 2005 (3100 words)
• ‘The Death Park’, Duncan Barford, 2005 (2800 words)
• ‘Lost Chapters: A fairytale’, J. W. Bennett, 2005 (7400 words)
• ‘Half Light House’, J. W. Bennett, 2006 (1500 words)
• ‘Nasmina's Black Box’, Jennifer Marie Brissett, 2009 (4300 words)
• ‘The Overdue Protocols’, Alexander Burns, 2009 (1500 words)
• ‘The Wolf Behind the Sun’, Johann Carlisle, 2005 (2900 words)
• ‘What Hath God Wrought?’, Neil Carstairs, 2007 (5700 words)
• ‘Respite Time’, Eric Del Carlo, 2009 (4400 words)
• ‘Maryann Saves the World’, Michael J. DeLuca, 2009 (2000 words)
• ‘One Drop’, David Dumitru, 2008 (6500 words)
• ‘The Transmigration’, Nader Elhefnawy, 2009 (1700 words)
• ‘Silence’, Alex Fleetwood, 2010 (4800 words)
• ‘Pianissimo’, Alan Frackleton, 2007 (11500 words)
• ‘What the Dead Are For’, Terry Grimwood, 2005 (3500 words)
• ‘The Exaggerated Man’, Terry Grimwood, 2005 (3800 words)
• ‘Coffin Road’, Terry Grimwood, 2007 (3500 words)
• ‘Kemistry’, Terry Grimwood, 2008 (1600 words)
• ‘The Contractor’, Terry Grimwood, 2009 (3000 words)
• ‘Art Attack!’, Mark Harding, 2007 (2000 words)
• ‘The Issuance of One Hundred and Thirty-Six ’, Mark Harding, 2010 (4000 words)
• ‘This is What I Look Like Now’, Sara Hosey, 2010 (8000 words)
• ‘Apala’, Terrance Jefferson, 2007 (4000 words)
• ‘Drafting Zoë’, Kelly Jennings, 2010 (4000 words)
• ‘Getting Down and Dirty’, Michael Johnson, 2008 (4700 words)
• ‘Reflection’, Jessica E. Kaiser, 2010 (2300 words)
• ‘Lucky .003’, Kassandra Kelly, 2008 (4500 words)
• ‘Happy Days’, Jerome Kemp, 2006 (2900 words)
• ‘Galatea's Stepchildren’, Sam S. Kepfield, 2009 (11000 words)
• ‘Until the Pit is Dug for the Wicked’, John Kratman, 2008 (10000 words)
• ‘Deadline’, Tom Lichtenberg, 2006 (1000 words)
• ‘Always Look on the Bright Side’, Alison Littlewood, 2008 (1000 words)
• ‘Only the Dogs Bark’, Dawn Lloyd, 2009 (4900 words)
• ‘Omega, maybe’, Michael Loughrey, 2006 (10000 words)
• ‘Once Again’, Allen McGill, 2005 (900 words)
• ‘The Devil's Tooth’, E. Steven Newby, 2008 (2500 words)
• ‘Neap Tide’, Don Norum, 2009 (4400 words)
• ‘A Rock by Any Other Name’, Rick Novy, 2008 (1800 words)
• ‘Fragmentality’, Sandra M. Odell, 2010 (4000 words)
• ‘The Dark One's Cry’, Barbora P., 2006 (1700 words)
• ‘Silent Song’, Wendy Palmer, 2010 (5000 words)
• ‘The Blood of Castalsara’, William J. Piovano, 2007 (12000 words)
• ‘Avatar on the Belts 1: Tartaros’, William J. Piovano, 2008 (5700 words)
• ‘Avatar on the Belts 2: Eros’, William J. Piovano, 2008 (5500 words)
• ‘Avatar on the Belts 3: Aither’, William J. Piovano, 2008 (3500 words)
• ‘Night Dreaming’, Steven Pirie, 2007 (2000 words)
• ‘Titanium and Silk’, Nick Poniatowski, 2010 (4600 words)
• ‘Ephemeral Love’, Melanie Rees, 2009 (1700 words)
• ‘10%’, Edward W. Robertson, 2009 (4800 words)
• ‘Daughters of Hralln’, C.L. Rossman, 2010 (8300 words)
• ‘Bottom Drawer’, Brett Alexander Savory, 2005 (500 words)
• ‘Suburban Alchemist’, Rob Sharp, 2008 (4000 words)
• ‘The Recycled Man, part 1’, Rob Sharp, 2009 (9500 words)
• ‘The Recycled Man, part 2’, Rob Sharp, 2009 (7000 words)
• ‘All the Way’, Graham Storrs, 2009 (2400 words)
• ‘Less Than the Sum of the Movable Parts’, Richard Thieme, 2008 (7000 words)
• ‘Shadows in the Mirror’, Todd Thorne, 2009 (6700 words)
• ‘Share Your Space Today’, David Towsey, 2008 (3200 words)
• ‘Merlin's Dolphin’, Erika Tracy, 2010 (4500 words)
• ‘Looking Glass Vacation’, Sarah Ann Watts, 2006 (5000 words)
• ‘Wingspan’, Aliya Whiteley, 2009 (2000 words)
• ‘Making History’, Lynda Williams, 2006 (3900 words)
• ‘Backward Planning’, John Young, 2005 (270 words)