Fiction Archives - sub-Q Magazine

Footnotes in Ashes

2017-06-27 · 10 minutes

Story: Jeremy M. Gottwig

In the darkness, we remember...

He is lost at sea with nothing but the ashes of his dead wife.

10+ min - Milli / Fantasy / Text-Based

After the Giant’s War

2017-04-25 · 10 minutes

Story: Emily McCosh
Art: David Demaret
Sound: Epic Score

The war is over, and there are lost things to be found.

A wife will find the husband the stone-metal giants took from her, even if it means sharing the heart beating in her own chest.

10+ min - Milli / All Ages / Fantasy / Playable / Sci-Fi / Text-Based

Time To Feed

2017-03-28 · 10 minutes

Story: Sharang Biswas

When the hunger takes over, can you resist? Do you want to?

A vampire’s latest victims unearth painful memories of his past.

10+ min - Milli / Horror / Mature / Multiple / Text-Based

The Tunnel

2016-12-06 · 10 minutes

Story: Natalia Theodoridou

She will never lie to you.

A young couple on a train journey across Europe enter a tunnel that is much longer than they thought.

10+ min - Milli / Fantasy / Horror / Mature / Multiple

Teeth and Ice

2016-11-22 · 5 minutes

Story: Hannah Powell-Smith

It would be mine.

A selkie searches for their stolen skin.

05+ min - Micro / Horror / Text-Based

Which Passover Plague Are You?

2016-10-11 · 15 minutes

Story: Veve Jaffa
Art: Veve Jaffa
Sound: Hal “HeavyViper” Binderman

Times are a-changin', and you're about to change with them.

Complete a cosmic quiz with God so he may transform you into a vessel for his revenge.

10+ min - Milli / Fantasy / Mature / Multiple

The Fire Tree of Si

2016-09-13 · 10 minutes

Story: Aaron Emmel

The past can be hard to leave behind.

A warrior returns home with a secret assignment.

10+ min - Milli / All Ages / Fantasy / Multiple / Text-Based

Before the Storm Hits

2016-08-30 · 1 minute

Story: JY Yang
Interactivity: sub-Q

It's the end of the world, and you have a to-do list for leaving the planet.

Only two can live.

00+ min - Nano / Multiple / Sci-Fi / Text-Based

Space Princess Coronation

2016-08-09 · 5 minutes

Story: Marie Vibbert

Do you have what it takes to be a Space Queen?

Space pirates attack the coronation ship! Only the princess can access the controls to save everyone.

05+ min - Micro / All Ages / Multiple / Sci-Fi

Images Across a Shattered Sea

2016-07-12 · 10 minutes

Story: Stewart C Baker
Art: Paul Otteni

The message orbs carry ancient secrets across the sea, so why does the one that Fatima finds seem to be recording?

Cause and effect aren't always guaranteed.

10+ min - Milli / Multiple / Sci-Fi / Text-Based

The Tower and the Toucan

2016-05-31 · 10 minutes

Story: E. Lily Yu

A perfectly ordinary day.

Birds and other bright things.

10+ min - Milli / Duration / Fantasy / Multiple / Text-Based

Alexander Systems

2016-05-03 · 10 minutes

Story: M. Darusha Wehm

There’s a way out — if you can see it.

A low-level office worker learns that there might be more opportunities for advancement than she once thought — but at what cost?

10+ min - Milli / Multiple / Sci-Fi