Hello, Germs, and welcome back to another edition of Belle Lettres! For this month, we will be spotlighting Octavia Butler. Butler was an American science …
Fallacy of Gold-Eyed Cats by Briana Tran
The following excerpt is from a novel-in-progress in which a human girl gets taken to the fairy world. I had started keeping track of …
The iBrain by Sophie McNaughton
September 24th, 2097. Within a year of graduating, my inventions began to attract attention and I was headhunted as an engineer at Apple Inc. I …
Black Gold by Elena Christidis
“Black Gold” is one of the September Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. A long time ago, in …
Crash Landing by Deanna Rabbiosi
“Crash Landing” is one of the September Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. A long time ago in a …
The Specimen by Laila Ismail
“The Specimen” is one of the September Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. A long time ago in a …
Welcome to the 21st Century, Everybody: 3 Sci-Fi Inventions That Became Real
We live in an incredible world where science fiction has become science fact. This video shows sci-fi inventions that actually exist in actual real life (spoiler …
Le Guin on Future Writers and Freedom
For all you young (or even old) writers out there, here’s a little advice from an author who surely had some influence on the writing you read now. After a …