Said the joker to the thief
_Lord Gyldrane's world becomes increasingly complicated, and he finds himself forced to compromise on long-standing principles when trouble comes to the town of Jaikot._ _Thus continues _The Road to Mandalay_, a fantasy steampunk story focusing on the...
As through a glass
_Jonham, Lord Gyldrane, is a hotblooded warrior consigned to the edges of the Aernian Empire. Forced to wield a pen instead of a blade, he has to find... "other things" to occupy his time. But the arrival of powerful interests opposed to his rule...
That hard six
_Coyote, that timeless trickster, is an agent of chaos. But chaos can be a powerful tool to setting things right, as a brief encounter with a slightly wayward farmgirl soon proves..._ _Okay. So I am still writing. Here's proof. It's a story about...
Fieldwork
_Henna Tuhkasaari is a temporal sociologist, travelling back in time to observe the behaviors of people long ago. But things can get a bit lonely, and when the opportunity presents itself... well, that calls for a little hands-on fieldwork ;)_ _This...
Cry havoc!
_In this, the final chapter of "Cry Havoc!", Jules Verne drops again and has a difficult time of it. In the aftermath she confronts the ghosts of her past and tries to navigate a murky, unclear future, with the help of her friends and...
Sunlight on a broken column
_In the penultimate chapter of Sgt. Julie Verne's adventure, our canine hero is thrust onto a new element, the bridge of a starship, and begins the laborious process of finding herself in a vast and occasionally heartless universe. And things, bit by...
Les bon temps
_The soldiers of 3rd Platoon, B Company, badly mauled by their last mission, take R&R while awaiting reinforcements. Julie Verne, up-and-coming dog/space marine, comes to grips with what she has done and, as a karmic reward, experiences some of the...
Interesting times
_The adventures of Jules Verne, the doglike warrior, continue apace! A combat drop into peaceful territory harbors less than peaceful secrets and a grim portent of what's to come. Julie also learns a bit more about this 'sex' thing you humans are...
And you tell me, over and over...
_Jules Verne, dog/space marine, returns. The platoon sees more action than they'd bargained for when a routine mission goes wrong, and Julie sees combat for the first time as the situation on planet Jefferson continues to deteriorate._ _This is the...
Willow Creek
_In the dog days of summer, 1942, a wolf on the cusp of adulthood and his younger sister engage in a bit of playful exploration on a sunny afternoon..._ _Released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. Share, modify, and redistribute -- as long...
I'm not ashamed to say I badly need a friend...
_Released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. Share, modify, and redistribute -- as long as it's attributed and noncommercial, anything goes._ _Once more into the breach! This is not as dark as my previous two stories; in fact it may not be...
Stimulus-Response
_When you're a biology teacher, sometimes, the only way to teach a happy-go-lucky red panda (you know how those wahs can be) is to give them a good hands-on lesson. That's one of the perks of the job -- or it oughta be, because the pay sure...