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“Aphrodite, forgive me! I have failed in my mission!”

Sarah is a gifted child…

“These are my demands.”

The first time we made someone have a heart attack…

DE­PRESSUR­IZATION EMERG­ENCY. PLEASE PUT ON VACUUM SUITS.

Coming up later today, a ripping yarn set in a mining camp…

“Can you tell me why you’re here, Lesley?” the guidance counselor asks…

We’re reading 225+ stories about troubled and troubling super­humans.

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Some people like to surf memories. Others use them as ringtones.

CONTEST: Hilobrow.com readers are INVITED TO SUBMIT a short-short (250 words maximum)…

The surface of OGLE-350c, like so many other superearths Sevin and Vulpes…

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The first sightings of dogs in trees were reported not long after…

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The following brief scholarly notice I have sent, in agitation, to an…

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HE STOOD THERE with the box torn open, with ribbons of packing…

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Imagine the scene of the Tribal Council if you can! We three…

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THE LIBRARY IS collapsing on itself, trying to digest itself. Renovation has…

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BEFORE THE TURN of the century when the Web was new, I…

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Forget middlebrow Jane Austen zombies. Hilobrow’s research department has just discovered a…