Harbinger, Chapter 1
"We're almost there," Arcee said through her human-size doppelgänger. Jack nodded and reached up to put his hand over the back of hers, hoping she couldn't detect his elevated heart rate through her palm as it rested on his chest. As soon as they had...
Arena, Chapter 4
"No!" Dylan shook his head and backed away from them. "I won't do it!" "None of us want to." Grishnag sighed. "But if we don't--" "Fuck this. They can torture me for the rest of my life, I still won't do it." He glanced around, threw his hands up,...
Arena, Chapter 3
The light faded and Dylan found himself in a seat. He blinked, shook his head, and glanced around. He and the females appeared to be in the back of an oversized van or passenger carrier. The interior had just enough room for two rows of seats and a...
Arena, Chapter 6
"I thought you said you could insert us into another simulation," Dylan muttered as the six white-armored goons marched toward them. "Working on it. I should be able to open a portal to another simulation in a few seconds." Cora planted herself...
Arena, Epilogue
"Well, that's a relief!" Cora sagged, braced her hands on the edge of the diagnostic bed, and grinned at Ayastal as she pointed at the test results on the monitor to her right. "Earth food is safe for you to eat, too. You're all in the clear." Ayastal...
Arena, Chapter 5
"Okay. So far, so good." Dylan turned slowly, taking in their new surroundings, and let out a slow breath when no new instructions popped into his mind. He and the females had found themselves standing on the corner of a street in another alien city....
Freelancers, Chapter Two
"How're you feeling?" Chula said, keeping her voice low as she leaned against the wall beside the door to the clean room. "Better," Lia said, still sounding a bit run-down, but far stronger than she'd been when she came aboard. "Much better,...
Arena, Chapter 10
"Well, that was a short journey." Grishnag scowled at the huge vehicle as it sat tilted at an angle, its forward end resting on the floor and its front wheels cocked inward. Cora had gotten the engine running and the thing had moved less than two...
Arena, Chapter 9
"Eww!" Dylan stood in front of his newly-opened stasis pod and stared down at the goop covering his body. "_Eww!_ What _is_ this shit?" "Not sure." Cora glanced over the nearby pods. "Could be some sort of protective agent, or maybe it keeps the...
Arena, Chapter 8
"Here they come!" Cora kept her optics on the approaching shapes for less than a second before flicking her gaze back to her control panel. The _Mae Jemison_'s scanners analyzed the objects and fed the results directly into her CPU. Aircraft of varying...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 1
Kolya jolted awake with a shrill cry, threw her arms across her face, and almost rolled off her bed. She opened her good eye wide and whipped her head around as the last remnants of the nightmare faded away. Her heart pounded as she fumbled for the...
Freelancers, Chapter Five
"Coming up on an hour without someone picking a fight with us." Quint chuckled. "Think that might be a record." "I'm actually okay with that," Lia said as she looked around, taking in various details now that she had a bit of uninterrupted time to...