SFReader 2010 Story Contest Second Place Winner Fadzlishah is a Medical Officer in Neurosurgery, born and based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He messes around with brains for a living, though he’s never eaten one, even though work makes him feel like a zombie at times. Among his publication credits are COSMOS …
SFReader 2010 Story Contest Third Place Winner Margaret McGaffey Fisk developed a love for different cultures while wandering archaeological sites as a Foreign Service brat in the Middle East. A combined anthropology and creative writing degree continued that focus, but a healthy dose of science fiction and fantasy took her in …
The Wolfman (2010), Rated “R” Starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving Directed by Joe Johnston Review by David L. Felts Rating Have you seen this movie? This will be a somewhat difficult review to write; I watched The Wolfman about a week ago and I don’t remember …
The Book of Eli (2010), PG-13 Starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals Directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes Review by David L. Felts Rating Have you seen this movie? I like end-of-the-world books and movies, probably because when you get right down to it I’m …
SFReader 2009 Story Contest First Place Winner One Ted thought the idea of freezing yourself against the possibility of being revived in some future date was, at best, a romp, at worst, a shameless waste of resources and perhaps the most arrogant action anyone could take. Indeed, the thought that some …
SFReader 2009 Story Contest Second Place Winner Four hours more to Simpton and five back to Porter. Jesse Matten had nothing ahead of him but hard, cold clay and nothing behind him but hard, cold clay. He turned the truck radio up loud–just because he was feeling reckless–and reached over into …
SFReader 2009 Story Contest Third Place Winner I was sitting on a bench enjoying the spring day in the park when a man walked into the “No Parking” sign across the path and fell down. I got up to see if he was okay. “Are you hurt?” I asked. “Only my …
SFReader 2008 Story Contest First Place Winner This story is the end result of an experiment, in which I was looking for a way to tell a story entirely in dialogue without being tedious. The radio format provided a means of introducing numerous characters into a conversation without straining credulity. Though …
SFReader 2008 Story Contest Second Place Winner The heart and starting point of the story was the tale that Esta tells Mary about the love affair between Bernice and Zentxs, which I’d written as an entry for a local St. Valentine’s Day short story competition. But it was very two dimensional …
SFReader 2008 Story Contest Third Place Winner I’m a sucker for stories where everyone but the main character(s) suddenly, mysteriously vanishes (think classic Twilight Zone episodes, Stephen King’s “The Langoliers,” John Wyndham’s Day of the Triffids). Look around, not a living soul. Quiet, echoing empty: Where did everybody go? That was …
Deadgirl (2008), Rated “R” Starring Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Jenny Spain Directed by Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel Review by David L. Felts Rating Have you seen this movie? High-schoolers J.T. (Noah Segan) and Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) occupy the bottom rung on the social ladder at their local high school, so …
SFReader 2007 Story Contest First Place Winner In essence, the story ‘Harmonic Convergence’ was the result of my wife and I getting picked on. Various friends and family members throughout the years have accused us of being co-dependent because we spend so much time together. So I decided to write a …
SFReader 2007 Story Contest Second Place Winner How do I say this? I was raised by the crazy half of the family. So as I grew up, I realized the map of the world I’d been given was folded just a little bit sideways. The really cool thing about kids, though, …
SFReader 2007 Story Contest Third Place Winner The Alyrian Pearl came to me first when I sat down to write this story. I knew what was trapped inside, I just had to figure out why. The Dark Man has been inside me for a while looking for a story. He won’t …
Primeval (2007) Rated “R” Starring Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton, Orlando Jones, Jurgen Prochnow Directed by Michael Katleman Reviewed by Nicholas Ozment Rating Have you seen this movie? The most interesting thing about Primeval was the advertising campaign. If you only saw the preview before watching it, you’d probably go in expecting a serial-killer …
SFReader 2005 Story Contest First Place Winner Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1) Sidney Miller Video interviews, 2025 I still remember the exact moment the Miracle occurred: two-twenty in the afternoon, March 7, 2015. I had driven to Atlanta that day …
SFReader 2005 Story Contest Second Place Winner “Coward!” Aristodemus ignored the taunt. The accusing citizen spat on his feet as he passed; the bronze sword at his side was no deterrent. Others glared at him as he worked his way out of Lacedaemon. At the city gates, a Spartan hoplite used …
SFReader 2005 Story Contest Third Place Winner “What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.” — Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV This world is subject to my will. Power, money, sex; all of the people …
SFReader 2004 Story Contest Second Place Winner In some ways, this tale seems like a “throwback” to the kind of SF story that was popular in the mid to late eighties. In other ways, the story feels completely new. And it is new, if only for the fact that the author, …
SFReader 2004 Story Contest First Place Winner This year, the final judging for the annual SFreader fiction contest was handled a bit differently from previous years. Webmaster/Publisher Dave Felts helped to finalize the results and each of the eventual winners was given a chance to revise their original submission with a …
