Lying Soldiers
"The Dra'nar species is an insect like species, but it would be a mistake to think of them only as that. To say they are just insects, are saying humans are just monkeys. While we may share some traits with monkeys, we are far more than they - as they...
Dying Soldiers
"The funny thing about humans is, they make terrible enemies, and terrifying allies. They will kill a hundred thousand enemies and die a hundred million times over ideology, but will pause, just shy of cutting the throat of their enemies, when they...
Hist Dreams
I sit in the warm water amidst the snowy plains, and rest awhile, and dream the dream of the Hist. A stipend of one hundred coins sat in my pouch, with the others left to me by my lady of soft scales. I walked through the morning crowd, my head...
People of the River
**--** **Day 1; 1200 of 3000 hours** **--** A crimson sky touched by golden clouds, and the endless song of featherless flying reptiles was as a symphony in the twilight hours of the...
Autumn Hours
August Hours - A Touch-of-Shadow's Erotic Short My septims were short, and my belly was hungry. My attention was paid to the road that I walked and the nearness of Riften, where the gates stood as proud sentinels, visible miles off. I would reach it...
Burwood
It was an old, red brick and mortar building on the edge of Lawrence Avenue and Olivehurst Road. Built someone-fifty years ago, the place was aged in the popular style of that far-away time, and was built with high windows, and burnished with the...
Alien Dreams
Alien Dreams My flanks against the stone, my hands curled against my chest, I breathlessly to the pulse of the hundred chambers throughout the odd temple of learning which I was homed within. I breathed slow and quiet -...
Winters Union
There are certain duties that we of the wild must partake, to maintain our bonds with the goodly creatures which we work with. I do not mean this simply, beyond the cares one would show a good ally. No, there are duties that we rangers must...
The Willowfield: Rapid Engagement
It was dark when I woke up. Dark, a pre-dawn shadow over everything, and only the faint glow of my wall monitor gave any sense of where I was. The time was early - barely four in the morning - and the minute hands clicked slowly away. A slow...
Three days leave
Alone. Onboard a star-ship, being alone is a strange sensation. Where there should have been at least a crew of two hundred people, there was only me. I walked alone onboard my ship - overlooking the console and observing the beeping screens...
Trench Warfare
I approached a trenchhhhhhhchchchch. Ping. A bullet hits a rock lodged in the trench beside me, and its ricochet lands between my legs, burying hot in the dirt just a few centimeters shy of my gonads. The dirt is black and swathed in red,...
Days spent Dreaming
It is hard to find work in these days and ages. One would expect that, on the frontier space between stars and planets, there'd be plenty of work for those of us with a natural mind for aerial acrobatics, especially when it comes to military and...