Month: December 2025

Performed by Val Cole Submit to the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival today: https://fantasyscififestival.com/

Performed by Val Cole Submit to the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival today: https://fantasyscififestival.com/

Performed by Val Cole

Short Story performed by Val Cole

This is the tragic and emotional story of a young scientist, Professor of Astronomy Star l’Etoile, who did not have time to make her most significant discovery in life due to her untimely death. This story is symbolic because the author of this comic, Navy Bird, died without ever seeing her main book, “Arlekino &… Continue reading Short Film Review: The Planet That Doesn’t Exist

Performing Pages 12 to 18 from the screenplay. In a reincarnated galaxy where love has been forgotten and life begins in liquid incubators; one man dares to rediscover what it means to be human. Jupiter Cross, a former soldier, senator, and now scientist, shaped by countless incarnations, an exemplary citizen of the Kyronian Federation, is… Continue reading FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: GOLD MINE, by Andrzej Ciesielski

Performed by Val Cole POEM: Sleeping Beauty She was never asleep. That finger prick summed up the tedium of her expected future: spinning, while looking beautiful. When she wanted to think and read her books. Her wicked godmother was disliked for pissing people off, going travelling, then reappearing uninvited with disruptive interventions. She seemed a… Continue reading POETRY Reading: Sleeping Beauty, by Ruth Aylett

Haunted by his wife’s disappearance during a corporate yachting accident, Teller, a dubious husband, fakes his own cryopreservation to uncover the truth. When he discovers Chrono-stasis’ cryo-suspension CEO is secretly running the company from a remote island—alongside Teller’s double-crossing wife—he must expose the corporation’s flawed cryogenic hibernation tech before he becomes its next unwilling test… Continue reading FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Short Story: Time-Shift, by RW Bell

A showcase of the best fantasy/sci-fi shorts from around the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS:Best Short Film: UNDER THE ELBest Micro-Short: AI THREATENS HUMANITYBest Direction: WAX GIRLBest Story: THE BALLAD OF SLOT SLOT AI Threatens Humanity, 3min., USADirected by Layal HamdehExperts warn that AI is growing so fast it could become as dangerous to humanity as… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: December 2025 Toronto FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival

On the move, always going for the next far thing. Sometimes in a hurry, sometimes dragging my feet. The road is the same either way. All I do is to move: Movement itself is the constant, but I’m told that’s just life. Can’t be helped, they said doesn’t matter if you’re built for that or… Continue reading SCI-FI/FANTASY Poem: Walking Machine, by Arda Ünal