Worlds Apart - Chapter Twelve
Chapter Twelve The doors to the shuttle were barely open wide enough for passage before Victus forced his way past them onto the deck of the cruise ship. Since he had been on a commercial shuttle and not on one of the cruise line’s...
Filling the Void - Chapter Three
Victus joined two dozen other sleepy boys who waited in line for breakfast. Out of consideration, he left a half-meter gap between himself and the boy in front of him. He'd long ago learned that the other boys didn't appreciate the way he smelled, and...
Winter Help – Chapter Four
The alarm sounded far too early the next morning, and when it did I was surprised to find Bubba's back pressed up to my own in the bed. I remembered that it was Saturday and slapped the alarm off. We let ourselves have an extra hour of sleep on...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Six
"Is this it?" Bo gasped, as the two rounded the bannister to the ship's ninth deck. "Are we there yet?" "Almost," Dan replied, after consulting his ship card. "One more floor." After six flights of stairs, he wasn't nearly as winded as Bo...
Filling the Void - Chapter Two
I'm aiming for a once-a-week posting, with the target day being Wednesday, to spread things out between other author's postings \*cough\*...Hockey Hunk...\*cough\*... My LIfe is Super...\*cough\* I missed that target this week not because it wasn't...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Seven
Dan threw himself out of bed in a frantic bid to escape the huge spiders that he'd just watched crawl out of the mutilated corpses of his best friends. Half-blind with panic, his fingers scrabbled across the wall, frantically searching for the bathroom...
Filling the Void - Chapter Fourteen
**_Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries..._ Victus thought, as he scanned the surrounding terrain with his ocular magnifiers. The child is always pushing boundaries... He'd arrived at his client's manor three months earlier as an honored guest, the pomp...
Filling the Void - Chapter Thirteen
"You still letting old Cyrus fuck around with your brain?" Rob asked, poking Dagen's head with a thick forefinger to get his point across. "You don't know what he's doing up there, buddy. Probably turning you into a killer cyborg with a secret...
Filling the Void - Chapter Four
Hello, faithful readers! Quick note, here. If you are enjoying this series, would you do me a favor and tell your friends about it? The readership is quite a bit down from Beneath the Skin, and I'm wondering if that's just because people are unaware...
Filling the Void - Chapter Seven
Victus had only vague recollections about the days following the wreck which killed his parents, but he did remember that his body felt almost as battered as it did today. There was not a muscle in him that didn't groan in protest with the slightest...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight A few minutes after leaving Dan, Victus found his mate swapping stories with the black battle varius in one of the ship's pubs. The two men were swapping military stories with fervor, and Victus didn't have the heart to break them...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Thirty
Early morning was Dan’s favorite time of the day. No matter what planet he woke up on, the cool morning air carried with it the promise of new and exciting things, and if he could be up to witness the rising of the local sun, well, more the...