Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity by Scott Gable C. Dombrowski

Author:Scott Gable, C. Dombrowski [Scott Gable, C. Dombrowski]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Broken Eye Books
Published: 2016-01-20T22:00:00+00:00

Jeff C. Carter lives in Venice, CA with a dog, two cats, and a human. His latest stories appear in the anthologies Delta Green: Extraordinary Renditions, Humanity 2.0, Apotheosis, That Hoodoo Voodoo That You Do, A Mythos Grimmly, and issues of Trembles, Calliope, and eFiction magazine. You can follow him at jeffccarter.wordpress.com.

Innsmouth Redemption

Joette Rozanski

Kisam Zuber woke from his reverie and saw the darkened town of Innsmouth hunched against the starlit Atlantic. A gibbous moon shed its light on the restless waves and nearby salt marshes. Here, enemies established their capital. Here, they ruled the remnants of the ravaged east coast of the United States.

I. The Collegians

He placed his hand over the small square of paper beside his heart; it was the last love note his wife had written him. The five other Collegians were occupied with their own thoughts, unsure of what waited. They had read the reports and viewed the televised images. Kisam Zuber lost his wife to the New York tsunami, but he’d never seen a Deep One up close.

Kisam covertly watched Cecily Mason’s slim face, but she betrayed no emotion as they began their descent.

Their small plane set down in a meadow beside a ruined house nearly a mile from the furthest suburb. The engines whispered into silence. The door opened, steps rolled down, and he and his companions emerged. A cold April breeze brought the faint scent of fish from the nearby town.

Kisam glanced back but saw nothing. The plane was invisible now, its shield revealing little more than an intermittent shimmer against the stars. He tugged his cloak tight and pulled down his night glasses before joining the others. Black turned to green, and he saw the sparkles that outlined his team. The metal-infused material of their cloaks was unwieldy, but they couldn’t risk being detected as they crossed the fields.

The nearly deserted Innsmouth of yesteryear had been gentrified over the last decade, filled with boutiques and bistros. The Deep Ones spared it from the earthquakes and tsunamis that devastated other cities. Innsmouth was sacred to Dagon and the ancestors who mated with humans.

The government of the United States hadn’t become aware of the Deep Ones until too late. The Collegians tried to warn the president; however, the military did not listen to leaders of underground nations that nobody believed existed.

Kisam’s people, the civilization that sprang from the Invisible College of the 1600s, had known about the Deep Ones for centuries and prepared for their incursion; the Invisible College visited the islands where humans and Deep Ones interacted and learned much of their customs and future plans. But there were too few of these descendants of alchemists, even with their advanced technology, to save doomed millions from the abyssal enemy. Kisam’s hidden realm of reason and romance watched the downfall of surface civilization and searched frantically for a way to repel the oceanic predators. Innsmouth was their last hope.

At the outskirts of town, Kisam and his friends removed their cloaks, putting them into their backpacks.

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