Untitled Rough Draft, Part 7
"You guys okay?" Kolya paused at the rover's door and stared at Corwin, Zadra, and Lorkis as they sat in the passenger compartment. All three of them had been unsettled enough with the discovery of the_Vancouver_'s dead crew, but once they'd returned...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 6
"Still no luck?" Kolya leaned against the edge of a console and watched Ralissa's team poking at the controls and connecting instruments to interface ports. The flight deck had been illuminated only by everyone's helmet lights until Lorkis pulled a...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 5
"Okay, here we go." Ralissa pushed off gently and drifted through the open airlock door. Zadra and Lorkis joined them, followed by Kolya, Corwin, Dylan, Nishara, and Grishnag. Everyone tapped a quick burst from their thruster packs to accelerate them...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 4
"Hmm, what's this?" Kolya glanced around and took in the observation lounge - a long, curving sofa along the back wall, a row of tables across the middle, food and drink stations at the far end, a mini-bar at the near, and a huge window that would've...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 3
"Here's what we know so far," Ralissa said to everyone gathered around the circular console at the rear of the flight deck. "Thirty-one years ago, the Galactic Expeditions deep-space explorer ship EIS _George Vancouver_ vanished while surveying the the...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 2
"So," Corwin said as they walked across the docking bay floor, "where'd you learn to fight like that? Were you in the military?" "Nah. When I was growing up, some of my friends were learning martial arts for competitions, and I wanted to learn just...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 1
Kolya jolted awake with a shrill cry, threw her arms across her face, and almost rolled off her bed. She opened her good eye wide and whipped her head around as the last remnants of the nightmare faded away. Her heart pounded as she fumbled for the...
Meeting Your (Kink) Potential
This was a personal story to try out a weird concept before finessing it into what would become the fucking space opera.
Die A Thousand Deaths
#13 of respawn chapter 13 of my noir space opera respawn. 'everyone has secret words that can save them. everyone has secret words that can kill them.' (unknown) "so they weren't slaves?" "not technically," fran's best friend had answered.
Freelancers, Chapter 21
"Two more minutes." The girl tapped a control and a set of blast shields retracted, revealing the blackness of space outside the cockpit. She touched another glowing, holographic button, and the lights in the compartment dimmed until Chasca's night...
Off Limits
#6 of respawn this is the sixth chapter of my noir space opera, respawn.
Yet So Far Away
#4 of respawn continues as part of the same noir space opera as out of sight (https://www.sofurry.com/view/1236909), sticks & stones (https://www.sofurry.com/view/1336266), and a man to fish (https://www.sofurry.com/view/1337719).