Jasmine the Indomitable (teaser)
Hello all! My name is Jasmine Bautista, and I am using a computer in my head to transmit my story for everyone to know. Why, you ask, is she using a computer in her head? Because I no longer have the use of my hands that's why! I no longer have hands...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 9
Humming made me awaken, but not all at once. The first time I heard it I was asleep again just as I realized what it was. The second time I opened my eyes long enough to stare at a large fuzzy shape which only made sense when I felt it sniff me before...
Riptide Part 2
Benny sat with his elbows on the folding table that had become a nexus of research next to Jasmine's tank. Running his shaking hands through his speckled gray hair while his hollow eyes followed Jasmine's wobbly attempts to get herself back on the...
Riptide
Jasmine wasn't sure what happened to her when she had been underwater with Trixie and Kala. Only that she'd felt a wrenching sense of vertigo before the pale...
Rising Tides Part 2
 When the sun rose early the following day, it revealed the still bodies sprawled throughout the central pavilion where they had fallen. A few lay with their heads or upper bodies on the large tables,...
Rising Tides Part 1
Manaaki held the hand of Airini, his wife, tightly as they sat cross-legged next to each other on the heaps of sea-colored pillows in the monumental meeting-house for the hui that the... well.... He didn't know what the proper names of the creatures...
Test Trial No. 1
"Will she show?" Amya Chandler asked. A thickset woman in her forties. The dark-skinned matron from Chad was a senior analyst with the Biggston-Raine consumer engineering firm. She and a dozen of her companions were sitting not so patiently in a circle...
Treacherous Shoals Part 2
"You're supposed to be helping me. Not drinking until you soil yourself." "Fuck off, mom. I've been doing what I was told, learning about the aliens." Pattie...
Treacherous Shoals Part 1
Once the enormous creature that was the director of the sea-life rescue quietly ferried the last of the dolphins to the water and slipped in after them, the...
Test Trial No. 3
The metal frame surrounding a partially dismantled excavator came crashing to the ground under the coercion of some enterprising dragons, making Camila jump and...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 27
The sadness of the baleful calls fed into me until I was swept away by the feelings of loss at how much dimmer the world was with the disappearance of the lights gone that day. The smell of my brother fell away when I sat up and swayed in time to the...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 26
"I'm what?" I said, with ears fanned open in surprise. My head tilted so far over in puzzlement that I thought my neck was going to snap. Looking back at the city, with helicopters buzzing over it like flies on rancid meat, I made sure that there were,...