Homecoming (Prologue)
Ten years can seem like a long time when you're young, can't it? When you're an adult with all kinds of worries and responsibilities the days seem to last an eternity, yet the weeks, months, and years are but a blur. When you're a kid however, a week...
M.I.A.
"Geostationary orbit achieved, sir!" "Excellent! Maintain position during final checks." "Sir!" Apart from seeing off a lone pirate in the Toriga System, it had been an uneventful two-week journey. In fact, we hadn't even needed to fire any more...
Maximus
An ordinary street in the centre of an ordinary town lined with ordinary stores catering for ordinary shoppers: that's what it seems to be until your eyes happen upon one particular establishment named Maximus. What does Maximus sell, you ask? Why,...
A Day in the Life of a Shark
_Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt!_ The deliberately irritating, almost mosquito-like alarm blared through the dark, stuffy, and previously-silent room, crashing upon the ears of anyone in its vicinity. Its volume was such that it all but drowned out the vague and...
One Night With A Shark
Spending a Friday slumped on the couch with the TV on, displaying the latest pre-alpha of a triple-A title while she tapped away at a controller was fairly standard for Liana. Normally she would have been quite content with such a lazy day, for they...
Silver Goes To The Pool
**Silver Goes To The Pool** ** ** _Please don't break. Please don't break. Please don't break._ This plea repeated itself over and over in Silver's mind as she approached the pool locker room, plasticky fabric bag containing her swimsuit...
Tasting The Waves
The sky was thick with heavy, leaden clouds which constantly threatened rain, but seldom did they deliver. The beach, normally a bustling ribbon of gold curving elegantly around the inside of the shallow bay, was all but deserted: only a handful of...
Cassandra (Chapter 2)
More than eight years had passed since that tearful farewell, during which time a great deal had changed in Shaun's life. While still living in the same town as ever, he'd found himself a place of his own within walking distance of the office job he'd...
Cassandra (Chapter 1)
A tiger in his late teens, queuing alone to pick up tickets to an animated kids movie: hardly the coolest of looks, but he'd won the stupid things so he may as well go see the damn flick! It's not like he was going to do anything more than vegetate at...
Physical Education
"C'mon, it's not _that_bad!" "Speak for yourself," Dane muttered, dumping his bag on a bench in the far corner of the changing room with a sullenness that truly betrayed how grudging he was at being summoned to his least favourite part of the school....
Ski Bums Chapter 1
_Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! School trip to New Zealand! This is going to be the best thing EVAH!_The cheetah was practically bouncing in his seat as these thoughts ran on a loop through his mind. He had been looking forward to this ever since...