The Folks in the Woods, Part 1a: Elizabeth
Elizabeth had always been the good one. The responsible one. Her parents' perfect, good little girl. Natalie had been angry and rebellious, and Jessica was young and clueless with her head in the clouds, but it was Elizabeth who knew how to roll with...
Sarkanian's Foxes
I awoke to find my hands tied behind the back of a metal-and-canvas folding chair, sitting beneath a thatched awning. Across from me, Sarkanian glarcd hatred in my direction, one hand slapping a swagger stick into the other. Framing him on...
Shifter, Chapter 2: Caure
Dain looked back at his mother momentarily as he walked out the door, tugging uncomfortably at the formal clothes that absolutely refused to settle comfortably into place for more than a minute or two - while the fit of some of his newer clothes were...
An Other World
_(Content Note: the sexual content in this story is primarily F/F, with fairly brief scenes of M/F and M/M. It is tagged with all to be on the safe side for those who filter content.)_ It's late afternoon on a warm spring day in Los Angeles, heading...
The Boneheap, Part 2: Night and Day
As Gianna walked carefully along, keeping an eye out for danger and trying as hard as she could to make her footfalls sound as softly as possible, a note of anger began to creep in alongside the pervasive, ever-present fear that... thing had seen fit...
The Assignment, Part 5: Settling In
As optimistic as I'd been that night about making things work, it wasn't as though a switch had been flipped overnight, and suddenly I was absolutely okay with everything, with being touched and snuggled all the time - and as much as I did want to make...
The Right Planet, Part One
There is something hauntingly beautiful about watching a ship come apart in deep space. It doesn't happen the way it was often imagined in popular media a few centuries ago - no bombastic choreography of petroleum explosions that defy the lack of...
Beating the Heat 0.3.5 (Pseudo-Complete Plaintext Version)
SECTION=StoryInfo Beating the Heat By interloper This is the "feature-complete" version of the story, ported from the AXMA Story Maker version, with all additions and revisions through the "complete" version 0.3.5. SECTION=NavigationNotes ...
The Assignment, Part 6: New Arrivals
The first group that managed to ascend the steps to meet us was the one composed of family, friends, and all of their attendant Tiaileng. They seemed about as collectively befuddled as the rest of us, my mom glancing between me and the slowly...
The Proprietors
_(Note: this is a companion piece taking place in the same world as The Red Ones, describing one of the other roles a transformed female can take on in that society. You may want to read the original piece as well if you'd like to find out more about...
Shifter, Chapter 6: Ekka
Whatever the device was, exactly, over the following days Dain grew more comfortable with its unobtrusive presence. As the schooling continued, Dain also grew more confident with each day that it was working exactly as advertised. Every night that Dain...
The Assignment, Part 4: Getting Closer
"You... are kidding, right?" I looked back at Daledonne incredulously, gesturing with my hand at the long table and the dozens of Tiaileng already seated around it. Daledonne, though, only shook his head slightly. It wasn't the response I was looking...