Abandoned, Chapter Six
He woke in pain, a yellow light falling gently on his face. The first thing Isaac saw was a colossal rig cage which seemed to hold up the sky. The ribs spread across the night like comet trails, curving and falling, and the cartilage connections...
Abandoned, Chapter Twelve
He remembered when he was a boy. After finishing his chores, he had been reading by his bedroom window, the twilight of the day casting deep hues across the stone. From below, he had heard laughter. Shouting. A mob of village children had been playing...
Abandoned, Chapter Ten
Slowly, the murals and myths turned to laboratories. Cages were the first sign of experimentation. Many of the testing areas seemed indistinguishable from a dungeon. Centuries of rust had melted the metal like sugar in the rain, but Isaac could still...
Abandoned, Chapter Seven
The city of the dead had well and truly died. Every street and building was bathed in an eternal twilight. Not even the shadows moved. The houses had been designed like the top half of a skull—two circular doors at the front of a bulbous oval, a sharp...
Abandoned, Chapter Eight
“We're gonna die," Zaria said. The ground continued to rumble. For the past few minutes, it had not stopped. The sandwyrm was agitated. Closing in. Isaac imagined a circular maelstrom of teeth erupting through the ground, a jagged maw large enough to...
The Three Hotties Problem, Chapter One
“What is . . . space?" Cynthia Havilick, captain of the starship _Furred Razor_, paced along the cheap gray floors of the bridge, speaking dramatically. “For so long as we can remember, anthros . . . and humans . . . have dreamed of life . . . among...
Abandoned, Chapter Five
The darkness was too thick to be natural. Like all magic, spells of light and darkness required energy transfer. But darkness was merely the absence of light—a death of energy. One could not create light with only darkness, but darkness could easily...
Paper Wings, Chapter Two
_Benjamin Phoenix escaped from the black ops facility on a skateboard, dodging ghosts and plasma fire._ _The night was young in San Nogales City. Out here, on the edge of town, there were only power lines and abandoned train tracks, the detritus of an...
Abandoned, Chapter Eleven
Amidst the dust and ruin, there laid a factory of death. The extraction chamber was vast enough to encompass the pelvic cavity—in the hanging dust, it almost went beyond his vision. The ceiling was lined with coffins, stretching down the massive room...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Two
Sadik had not seen the sun in weeks. Since the revolution, the new Vizier had declared all members of Hisana's regime to be enemies of the gods. Even during the succession crisis that followed, when the average lifespan of Acheron's leaders had been...
Samsara, Chapter One
“You sure about this, dude?” Ahead, across the length of a parking lot, there was a store in the middle of a strip mall. A statue of a six-armed snake sat beside the door, with each of the arms forming a different pattern—the upper pair gestured to a...
Abandoned, Chapter Fifteen
“Uncle!” Ahead, through an ocean of bone, there was an altar raised on a pyramid. Pipes and wires crawled along the masonry. Granite columns wreathed the apex of the structure like the ornaments of a crown. In the center of the altar, there was a bank...