Month: December 2025

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 HamdenExperts 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

The Space Logs: A Captain’s Journal SpaceLog: 9185577 – A Stray Astronaut Stardate: 03212024 Coordinates: Two weeks away from Keid Omicron 2 Eridani A sudden crash He was just there I thought at first we had hit an asteroid Gone unnoticed by the ship’s shoddy autopilot The breach sirens all began going off at once,… Continue reading SCI-FI/FANTASY Poem: The Space Logs: A Captain’s Journal, by BG Lindstrom

TO LOVE IS A VITAL WAR AND NEVER-ENDING My blade has been dulled by black bloody vines sprouting in the rose field They prick souls and into blood the seeds of dysfunction yield REPENT your stagnant soul and saddened eyes and bleeding wrists REPAIR your malignant lull and maddened sighs and seeding fists KEEP TOGETHER… Continue reading SCI-FI/FANTASY Poem: THE SKEWED SPIRIT SCREAMS, by Lucas Cain

the robotic transport ship entered the atmosphere of planet 396 instead of gently touching down on the rough landing pad it slide down like an out of control atmospheric aircraft digging furrows with its landing skids shearing off two of them until it came to a halt against the pile of karst from when the… Continue reading SCI-FI/FANTASY Poem: CRASH LANDING ON PLANET 396, by Larry Blazek

Although not a man of many words, your expressions have much to say. In the forest you feel at ease, as you navigate a maze of leaves. With grace and skill, you spin and slash to uncover secrets that guide your way. You roll into trees, smash pots, and command the breeze. Music leads your… Continue reading SCI-FI/FANTASY Poem: HERO, by Amber Crockett