Wilde Magic
Nicholas P. Wilde woke to the chiming of his alarm clock and slowly began his morning rituals. He started with a shower, spray of "Musk-Away", and brewed some coffee, then he drew a rug off of a mat inscribed with a five-pointed star, made sure the top...
Of the Collective, Chapter 3
All three of my selves retreat into my cabin after that confrontation with Ricardo. The difference between our two civilizations seems insurmountable, how could a group mind and a society of singletons coexist when singletons not only accepted, but...
Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 13
A couple hours later the shock finally wore off and Horizon and Shawn started cleaning up the ruined computer room. As they gathered up pieces of shattered servers the raccoon reluctantly started to give details of what had happened. "So," Shawn...
Supervore 3: Attempted Heroism
_The Goddess of Predation was sealed away by the gods, but at a cost. The power they'd invested in her new prison and the mortals they resurrected had drained them. Assured that they'd done what they could, they entered a deep slumber, to rest until...
Supervore 2: Resurrection
_The other gods were furious when they discovered what the Goddess of Predation had done. They had done the math and found that the mortals she'd empowered would devour the rest in a matter of weeks. And then they would consume one another. They would...
Supervore: A New World
_The Goddess of Predation looked down on the world she'd helped create and growled. The sapient beings of the world had forsaken her, no longer did they hunt and slay one another. No, they corralled dumb beasts and cut them up to wrap in plastic and...
Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 3
The flight back to the base was subdued, slowed by the damaged aircraft. By the time they arrived Bill, and three of the survivors they'd rescued, had expired. Jenny, one of the few members of the Friendly Society who was privy to Horizon's identity...
Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 2
Time slowed almost to a standstill, the drops of blood streaming out of Horizon's stomach floated idly in the air. The raccoon's mind raced as she frantically queried every status sensor she could find on the drone carrier, hearing naught for a painful...
Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 1
A raccoon floated in an endless void, infinite blackness interspersed with tiny points of light. She concentrated, and the blackness was replaced by a park ground of rolling grass-covered fields. Not finding that particularly relaxing she replaced the...
Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 8
Horizon held her hands under a faucet streaming frigid water over the bizarre object that had both caused her immense trouble and saved her life multiple times. She stopped the stream for a moment to examine it again. It was a perfectly smooth metallic...
Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 7
Horizon ducked just in time for the claw aimed at her visor to graze the top of her helmet instead. The drone tried to pull back the claw for another strike, but it stuck in the helmet's gel layer and pulled her head with it. Aggravated the raccoon...
Horizon: Rebuilt Chapter 6
Three days after the rig explosions Horizon raced through a burning factory complex. One of Surtr's regular moonquakes had finally overwhelmed the under-maintained safety systems of a fifty-year old chemical plant along the equator. Even with her...