Enemy of my Enemy, Chapter 1
"I really wish you'd reconsider, Jack." Arcee kept her voice barely above a whisper even though Jack was the only other person in the repair bay. She sat in the same spot she'd occupied since Ratchet attempted to fix her near-fatal damage from...
Freelancers, Chapter Eleven
"Any word on Kenn yet?" Lia said softly, and waited for the human behind the counter to answer. The woman arched an eyebrow, looked as if she were trying not to roll her eyes, and tapped a few buttons. She read the text on the screen and looked...
Arena, Chapter 2
"Well, that's not what I expected." Dylan turned around slowly and took in their surroundings. He and the alien females stood in the middle of a street with a set of vehicles in front of them. Wheeled vehicles, but none of them familiar to him. They...
Freelancers, Chapter 20
"Hah! This looks intriguing!" Dakka popped another crab puff into her mouth and held her menu tablet out to Emily. "Zaeed's Goddamn Good Chocolate Chip Cookies. Think I'll get a batch to-go." She laughed and added them to her order. "They're pretty...
Project: Phoenix (Neon City, Book 3), Chapter Nine
"Marvelous." Ramirez sighed and slipped her phone back into her pocket. "Just got another text from Hoshi. Jack and the girls have run into trouble. Looks like we'll have to wait a while longer." "How bad is it?" Hiro turned around slowly, sweeping...
Elsewhere, Chapter 16
"What've you found, Astra?" Roger stepped up to the central console and cocked his head at the terrestrial-looking planet in the holofield. The past three hours had zipped by once Astra had begun the series of educational vids to help Graham, the...
Harbinger, Chapter 7
"Huh. What's going on over there?" Arcee placed her tray on the table and stared at the Pretender sitting at a table on the far end of the row, by the corner of the fence surrounding the Groom Lake base. A half-dozen other Pretenders and an equal...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 10
"How's he doing?" Kolya stepped into the med-bay and found Lorkis on one of the beds with more than half his body draped over the end and coiled up. Ralissa sat on the edge of the adjacent bed and Cora stood at a nearby console, staring at the readouts...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 9
"Wait!" Kolya slowed her pace as Corwin turned to face her. "You said this guy wants to make an example of you. Does that mean what I think it does?" "Well, if you're thinking he's planning to kill me, then yes. He's killed people for a lot less."...
Untitled Rough Draft, Part 8
"Kolya?" "Not now, Corwin," she snarled through clenched teeth. She kept her hands clamped onto the arm rests as the rover bounced over the terrain on its way back to the _Mae Jemison_, but could barely resist the urge to snap her arm out and slam her...
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...