Graffiti is a profound artistic act in a future ruled by ads

Author Tim Maughan has remade his cyberpunk short story "Paintwork" as an experimental film. In a future where we're constantly bombarded by high-tech advertising, one street artist decides to take back control of one public space by turning a classic billboard into art.

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Read a new Doctor Who story starring Harry Houdini and a race of Space …

If you can't wait until Christmas for your next Doctor Who fix, the BBC is running a new illustrated Doctor Who short story, Houdini and The Space Cuckoos, in which the Eleventh Doctor enlists the famed escape artist's help in defeating a race of giant, body-possessing birds.

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Stephen King's witchy short story "Gramma" heads to the big screen

We've got another low budget horror movie for everyone to get excited about. News has it that Stephen King's short story "Gramma" (which you may remember from the Skeleton Crew collection, or its brief appearance on The New Twilight Zone in 1986) is getting its own movie.

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Concept Art Writing Prompt: The Skeleton of the Cyborg Astronaut

After last week's Comic-Con-induced hiatus, we're back this week with a new Concept Art Writing Prompt! Something unpleasant may have befallen this technologically integrated astronaut, leaving behind only an intriguing skeleton. What happened? Come up with a story and post it in the comments.

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Before the aliens arrive, we'll have to clean up the bachelor pad Earth

It would be kind of embarrassing if aliens from a more advanced civilization showed up tomorrow and found the mess of disease, war, and poverty we still haven't gotten around to cleaning up. Zach Weiner's illustrated short story "The Bachelor" describes humanity's frantic effort to make the planet presentable before our…

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Read Alien, retold from the cat's perspective

Only one character in Alien has the wits and wherewithal to survive to the end of the movie at Ripley's side: Jones the cat. While everyone else on Nostromo was screaming like chickens with their chests ripped open, Jones exhibited the cool becoming a cat. Now Jones finally gets to tell his side of the story, one…

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New Zombie Romance Will Rip The Guts Out Of Your Crappy Romantic…

Isaac Marion's zombie love story is set to be made into a film by The Wackness director Jonathan Levine. Check out the short melodramtic love story that sparked Marion's novel, along with the original book trailer.

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