Wrong Place, Right Time
It was funny, how a person's life could change in an instant. For Trent Lockwood, that moment came a few minutes after he slipped out his bedroom window and headed off to meet up with a few of his friends. His parents had gone to bed over an hour...
Harbinger, Chapter 8
"Ah, there you are." Arcee's human-size body stood in the doorway and smiled. "Oh, hey, Arcee." Jack took a deep breath, moved his head around to work the cramp out of his neck, and waved his tablet at the crate beside the one he sat on. "I was just...
Freelancers, Chapter 25
"_You are not Saren."_ Valeria shivered at the sound of the deep, booming, mechanical voice as she stared at the recording on the screen on the lounge's far wall. The archive entry was one she'd gained access to after her reinstatement to Special...
Project: Phoenix (Neon City Book 3), Chapter 15
Jack woke gradually and found himself atop something cool, uneven, and ... scaly. _Oh. Corona._ He smiled. He kept his eyes closed, drew in a deep breath, and slid his hands around. His left hand found Corona's shoulder and his right brushed against...
Project: Phoenix (Neon City Book 3), Chapter 14
"Lunch was perfect." Jack grinned as Corona and Taura snuggled him. "And dessert was even better." Taura laughed and kissed him. "I'm glad you liked it as much as I did." Corona reached across him to brush a lock of Taura's hair away from her eyes...
Project: Phoenix (Neon City Book 3), Chapter 13
"Here ya go." Otto placed the cup in front of Shakira and sat on the opposite side of the small, glass-topped table. He'd spotted a media van parked nearby, but luckily this place had a half-dozen tables on the roof, and all but one were unoccupied....
Harbinger, Chapter 6
"Oh, hell," Raf whispered as he stared wide-eyed at the bank of monitors in front of him and the others. Ratchet stood off to the side, keeping his optics on the screens and his right hand over the ground-bridge controls. Tomoko sat beside Raf,...
Freelancers, Chapter 23
"So, what do you make of this? Is it 'indoctrination?'" Dr. Michel leaned back in her chair and watched as Dr. Chakwas finished reading the file on her tablet. Chakwas passed it to Mordin, who read the file in mere seconds and handed it back to...
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...
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...
Project: Phoenix (Neon City, Book 3), Chapter 12
"Where are we going?" Otto muttered. Jack glanced over his shoulder at Otto and Shakira as they lay on the floor of the rear compartment, keeping well away from the windows. "Hope you don't mind, but we figured it might not be a good idea for you to...