Dark Skies, Part V: Strange Business
From my ship I walked six feet or so, then held up my gauntlet. I tapped a button that was near the palm, and a circle on the palm of my gauntlet flickered, then projected a map of my current area. The projection was a light blue and somewhat hard to...
Dark Skies, Part III: Touching Base
Arriving over Nurin-Veyga Six was a welcome change to the dark reaches of space. Dropping back into real space, I was the planet zoom into view ahead of me. I saw the lush grasslands and the large bodies of water that covered the planet, and suddenly...
The Path Less Traveled, Part 9
"I said my father and I spoke back and forth using letter written in the dragon's language. We did this so that if our letters were ever intercepted by the Morag Tong's enemies, they couldn't be deciphered. We sent letters to and from each other via a...
A Theory of Equilibrium, Book 1, Part 7: Savior
"Gellos." The boy opened his eyes, and turned around suddenly. He grabbed for his staff, then stopped, and remembered. His staff had been destroyed, and as he looked at the area around him, all he saw was his old home. He saw the living area, the...
Dark Skies, Part VI: The Church
Rextin Tal. I had never visited the planet before, but as the _Red Horizon _neared the end of its travel to the planet, the visit wasn't occupying my mind. In truth, the only thing I thought about was how... natural it felt to wield a holo-blade. A...
The Neon Night Life: Part 6
I didn't take Tyler to one of the private rooms. Instead, we wriggled our way through the club. He held my paw, taking the lead after we got up from the couch. He seemed shy, but I thought it was cute. The bills he'd stuck in my underwear were hanging...
A Nice Morning Jog
I felt like I had been at the same red light for the last hour. It hadn't been that long I knew, but dam it felt like. I had one arm hanging out my open driver side window, the other arm laying over the steering wheel with my chin on top. I moved a...
Greener Pastures, Part Four: The Library at Night, Part 1
When it was, according to the digital clock on my and Eddie's desk, 9:26 PM. I looked at my phone as I laid on my bed, then tapped on Janny's number, which I had just saved as Janny, and texted her: "_Hey! It's Nick from the bookstore. You...