Author

Matthew Castleman

Matt Castleman is a writer and stage actor from NYC, currently residing in the event horizon of the American bizarro vortex, Washington, DC. Under the name M.E. Castle he published the Clone Chronicles middle grade sci-fi series, among other works. He's performed on stages including the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, the Folger Theater, and the Washington Stage Guild. This is his second story in Daily Science Fiction. He blogs about science fiction, theater, the imagination, and whatever else comes to his weird brain at castlemantransmissions.net.

http://www.castlemantransmissions.net/

We Sold Our Sol

We'd like you to hear us out on this. We know that change is unsettling, often frightening. It's one of those great human truths, the kind people put on their mantle in carved wooden letters. No major shift in human society has ever been easy. There is always anxiety, sometimes…

The Doctors

The nurse left work on time. He passed under the dim glow of the ID dome, and through the ratcheting gate that snapped to either side with a hiss and a click as the dome's radio eye found the code pricked into his skin. Joel's mind drifted back across the day. A little girl…

Gone Now

We reach town limits. Through a purpled, misshapen stand of elm, a sign pokes up, crinkled and black at the edges: Thompson's Creek. Pop 3,000. It's gone now. I met someone from here once. Said the trees were lovely. There was an annual folk concert in the square he loved as a…