By J Yahshar
I heard about Twitter maybe 5 months ago. It was one of those things where you hear someone mention something but you don’t recall the time or place because it just isn’t that important to you at that moment.
Twitter, what’s that?!? It’s some Internet thing where your constantly update people about what you are doing.
When I first got hold of the concept I couldn’t connect the dots. I said, “that’s not for me.” I looked down on that hopelessly addicted group of text messaging slaves. With their heads …

-excerpt from OG’s Speculative Fiction, Issue 14
Beneath the border of France and Switzerland is twenty-seven miles of concrete tunnel. The tunnel is the Large Hadron Collider, man’s most recent attempt to delve into the unknown and possibly destroy the world (yes, I am exaggerating here, but only a bit). Simply, the machine collides beams of protons. One result of such collisions is a possible micro black hole, the same things that suck up everything in outer space and have a gravitational pull so strong that light cannot escape.
All dreams of …

Welcome to Mars, my friend.
We may be saying that sooner than you think. The European Space Agency just announced its intention to start looking for people willing to go to Mars, at least on a hypothetical trip, since they won’t ever be blasting off from their “spaceship” in Russia. Instead they will spend 520 days on board ship, pretending its real.
It might all be a publicity stunt, a ploy to draw people’s attention and energy back to space and the romance we have with the stars. It might just be …

by: Daniel St-Jean
I’ve got some bad news for you; you won’t get the opportunity to read this incredible book entitled The Stevedore in the White Fedora. This novel, filled to the brim with stirring passages, was going to captivate your imagination and take you on a breathtaking adventure to some of the most infamous ports of the world. Replete with intrigue, passion, action, suspense, drama, and hot romance, this book was assuredly going to reach the top of the best-sellers list. And the ensuing movie based on that captivating story …

Egypt was the wonder of the ancients. They advanced, built pyramids, penned hieroglyphics, and performed medical wonders. But they got lazy, their slaves left, and Egypt declined. Rome was glorious. It was built upon the blood of great men. At the height of their civilized glory, Rome got complacent and lazy. They ate themselves from within as great men became selfish instead of industrious.
And now there’s us. America was glorious. Will it crumble as well beneath its own laziness and selfishness?
I love to listen to the older generations. It seems …