Tomorrow Never Knows
They say that space is the best reminder of one's own mortality. That by stopping and just looking, out into the vast nothingness broken up by stars, one is reminded of their own minusculity. And while they aren't necessarily wrong, one still can't...
Federation Aside - Initiation
"He's not talking. The drugs are having no effect." A swish of ringtail. "I don't know what else to do." The lieutenant commander nodded, crossing her arms. "Everything has a weakness." He was a shape-shifter. Caught last night in a restricted...
The Transcendent
A group of soldiers is sent to a space station where contact has been suddenly lost. UGF - United Galactic Federation, or 'the Federation', main faction of the story. In control of several self-governing planet systems. Pawcomputer - Short for...
Friendship Is Optimal: Caelum Est Conterrens
** ** **F R I E N D S H I P I S O P T I M A L** .  **Friendship Is Optimal: Caelum Est Conterrens H E A V E N I S T E R R I F Y I N G _ by Chatoyance_** _ **1....
Dreams of Refugium: Part Two
* * * ## # _Part Two_ Geren woke to the touch of a paw stroking through his chestfur. Momentarily dissociated, he sat up with a start, surprised to feel a soft body against his--one that smelled nothing like Alain. He found himself enveloped...
Negotiation Breakdown - Sci-Fi Summer Entry
A thousandmiles high, and falling. Razor loved free fall. He let the peaceful tranquility of high-orbit insertion surround him. It brought him a peculiar kind of zen--the calm before the storm. All the way up here, there was nothing to distract him...
Primal Passion
Weights seemed to be lifted as Rodney drank his late night coffee. If the raccoon knew who had created coffee then he'd build a shrine in their honor. All he needed was one cup, one cup and he could get back to his research at close to top proficiency....
Hope from the Embers
Ted sat with the rest of the world, watching as the grand weapon arose from the ground. This might be the last thing that he ever got to see, "Please... please let him come home safe..." Ted prayed, his hands clasped together. The leopard's eyes were...
Dreams of Refugium: Part One
# # * * * # _Dreams of Refugium_ ## ## _Part One_ Geren's throat was tight, but he forced what he hoped was an amiable little smile. "No, it's alright. Look, I understand. I...really thought we could work through it, though. I mean, I know...
Scavenging for Survival
_ **Scavenging for** _ _ **Survival** _ by Reserved Rodent A bloated, orange sun bore down on the shimmering tan dunes of the desert, reflecting off the bare metal of the skimmer-bike zipping across the endless miles of sandy wasteland. The driver of...
Tainted Ice
Tainted ice On the planet Polar, orbiting just too far from its sun for human comfort, live the ursine people. Tough, industrious, smart and loving; these are just some of the words you could use to describe the people. Close minded, zealous, violent...
Dreams of Refugium: Part Three
* * * ## # _Part Three_ Lapis loaded Geren roughly into the back of a little security runabout, then climbed in front. He picked his way through flooded streets before coming to a stile across a wall of sandbags; once across, the streets were...