Cohabitation - August
At least daimon had offered to pay to replace them... as he stopped at a sign, he caught sight of something in the alley next to his car, and he had to do a double take.
Superhero 7
"yeah," ender said, as he sat up holding the back of his already-healing skull, "daimon seems t'like him." obliterator raised his paw, the one covered in the void gauntlet, and pointed it at a startled-looking spike-haired wolf.
Superhero 9
Gyro's half-metal half-flesh face simply nodded, never looking up from the ever-changing consoles that monitored everything from the building's security cameras to the biosigns coming from the basement dungeon where daimon and the priest were being
Cohabitation - September
I'm so glad to work for daimon, he's amazingly generous with time off. lucky that i work for a guy who knows how crap our generation gets treated by the old guard." "haverly's is pretty awful about that," said xander with a sigh.
Litter Box-eteers!
Cocoa woke up with a twitch of Zayvier's ear, as he was curled up close under his paw. Afraid to move but bladder bursting full, he gently got up and made his way to the litter box. His brother Kayvon, Locked and chained in His cage, waiting...
Sweet Bunny Girl
I won her at an auction, my sweet bunny girl But I prefer to think of it as adoption. I had prepared for weeks-- months really, and now her first night home I get to reap the benefits. Having got her all unpacked I put on her a fresh adult...
Of Lava and Lamb
The shag carpet stretched all along the drafty cathedral-style castle on top of a very steep hill. Light flickering on the highest window, - splashing the glass a sickly green - as the Mistress of the Castle was working on another...
Rebirth
Crizerp's exoskeleton grew translucent as the molt began. Hold music in the lobby steadily kept droning on its ambient jaunt as the epidermis grew milkier and milkier and started to flake and curl musky slough spirals around Crizerp's very...
Tales From the Dust District
Zaire came into the saloon holding a bundle in his arms. "Hey, Pierre, I need a juice port." "How many this time?" "Eight" "..Eight?!" "Fine. Six. Can ya at least give me that?" The bartender sighed. "I got my good girls...
Adrift
The klaxon alarm that heralded the evacuation of Terra Prime still haunts my dreams. Even though I am a safe colonist on Lunar Prime. The desolate floating of everything on this rock feels like the primal birth of something voidal, gaping,...
Interlude: Meet Nadia
The Draft Brand. Volunteer Corps and Military FamiliesCall me Nadia, your friendly interlude narrator. I thought I would set some things straight about the world before we move forward. There are three ways to join a crew. First there is the...
Time Apart -- Brings Them Together
That night, Aeri lay in her bed thinking of Alexei. She wondered if he would volunteer. If she had known that he could, she would have talked him into coming on board with her. But they might have been assigned to different ships. She couldn't...