Love and Lycanthropy - Chapter 21
Ben brought the Huey up to cruising speed and altitude as we settled in for the flight back. We'd been in the air only five minutes or so since our tangle with Samuel's group."How long until we reach the base?" Jesse asked Ben."We're loaded down a...
"First Contact"
Jake was feeling morose as he was driven out to the airport to board the flight to Colorado. He felt like he'd been robbed of the last couple of blissful weeks he'd been looking forward to spending with his sweet tiger before having to move to Colorado...
A Tale of Woe
For the rest of Jake's weekend off, he and Hunter did nothing more than enjoy each other's company. They played video games, and the tiger followed along when Jake went out for a run or to ride his bike. They enjoyed all of their meals together. Each...
You Are Here
Jake agonized over the situation for the next couple of weeks while there was no further contact from the tiger and Curiosity's backup telemetry link stayed down. He wondered what it was exactly he might have done to upset the big cat. Everything had...
Can You Hear Meow?
The next day Jake came to work looking forward with great anticipation to another session with the tiger. He had some ideas how they could get started trying to communicate more with each other. The emojis combined with math symbols that they'd used...
Emoji Arithmetic
Several weeks passed while the storm raged on the surface of Mars. Jake was kept on standby as Curiosity's primary operator in case the dust storm cleared enough for the rover to make contact again. That seemed unlikely to happen any time soon though,...
Cat
Jake stood with mouth agape as he stared at the image showing the rocks on Mars that spelled out his name. He looked over at his boss, but Rick just stared back at him darkly, waiting for some sort of explanation. When he realized Jake wasn't going to...
Curiosity
Jake Smith had always been curious. Ever since he was just a boy, for as far back as he could remember, he wanted to know everything about everything. He'd always wondered why things were the way they were and not some other way. He wanted things to...