Dreams of Refugium: Part Three
* * * ## # _Part Three_ Lapis loaded Geren roughly into the back of a little security runabout, then climbed in front. He picked his way through flooded streets before coming to a stile across a wall of sandbags; once across, the streets were...
X271
_If you haven't read 'Prologue' in this series, you must know a few things... 1) Furries calling their creators (humans, died 272 years ago) an "Ancients" 2) They started an 'X' epoch and they are using " 'X'YYY, DD.MM. " date format (Y - year, D -...
Planet of Lost Memories
I crossed the wreckage, the once mighty star ship now lying in pieces. I sighed as I saw the remains of my chair and that of my quarters. I looked for something. I gasped as I found it, something that maybe someone could remember from the ship. A small...
Scavenging for Survival
_ **Scavenging for** _ _ **Survival** _ by Reserved Rodent A bloated, orange sun bore down on the shimmering tan dunes of the desert, reflecting off the bare metal of the skimmer-bike zipping across the endless miles of sandy wasteland. The driver of...
scifisummer far flung space fling
Blinding lights flashed in the dark space as a ship was being fired upon. The occupant struggled valiantly to avoid further damage to his vessel against the bigger ship firing on him. The pilot grunted and growled to himself as he tried to avoid...
Reaching Alignment
As fun as weightlessness is, I was rather glad as the shuttle landed. Six months planetside, and I was looking forward to it. Two hours of decontamination, another two for the blood tests to come back and I was on the lawn in front of the shuttle...
SciFi, Nico and Pancho Meet a Friend From Far Away
Early one morning, at the beginning of a hot, African, summer day, Nico the lesser oriental civet and Pancho the meerkat were collecting fruit. Nico would climb the fruit trees, pick the fruit and toss it down, as a civets claws are well suited for...
Going Native
"Oh, relax, you're not going to be punished," the old beaver assured his subordinate as he finished pouring himself a glass of whiskey, the ice hissing as it cooled the liquid. "I'm not?" the young arctic fox, Arthur, asked in surprise. When he'd...
03 - Rain always brings out the crazies...
Daylight languished under a planned seven-day rainstorm. The leaders of the city, through political and literal backstabbing, had managed to land the contract for a prestigious inter-city sporting event. There were to be parades and pageantry, in the...
Hope from the Embers
Ted sat with the rest of the world, watching as the grand weapon arose from the ground. This might be the last thing that he ever got to see, "Please... please let him come home safe..." Ted prayed, his hands clasped together. The leopard's eyes were...
Song of the Space Finch part 2 of 4
SECTIONS: Dinner The Calm The Incident \_\_\_Dinner\_\_\_ Ruth and I were the last to arrive at dinner. I looked around checking on my flock. It looked like Beck was staying in the nest with the chicks that night. Ruth sat down at a table,...
Lost in the Stars
**Lost in the Stars** By Dennis M. Falk 4 June 2011 Issued under a Creative Commons license BY-SA-NC She had just settled in at the space station in preparation of her history-making flight to another solar system, some 16 light years away. The...