Divine: Chapter 2
Divine: Chapter 2 "The Universe is big, let's make it smaller, one jump at a time." That was the slogan used by the Orion Rangers that got Marty Jean thinking thirteen years, seven months, four days and five hours ago. He was walking down the street,...
Tommy's Dragon
"A dragon?" I asked for Tommy to repeat himself. Oh, I had heard what the young lad from Brooklyn had said, but I just wanted to make sure he wasn't on anything too illegal. "Dragon, I tell ya!" He nodded vigorously, his black locks whipping up and...
Red Moon: Chapter 6.5
Red Moon Chapter 6.5 The room was dark, the green cast of light spread out from the lonely alarm clock that sat on the night stand. It shuddered with each tick, not from an internal mechanism, but from the bed that bumped into its stand. The...
Hidden: Chapter 1
Hidden: Chapter 1 From the Beginning I was shoved into a room. It was a stereotypical interrogation room; a concrete box, with a metal table, two metal chairs, a single fluorescent light bulb (I didn't know they still made those things), and a...
Baker's Dozen: Harley Robertson
Baker's Dozen The First How do you remember your life? Do you have a long string of important events, one leading to the next in an exciting adventure through your roller coaster of a life. Perhaps it wasn't so exciting. Maybe you had one or two...
Red Moon: Chapter 2
Red Moon Chapter 2 Trevor laughed at one bad joke after another, the vodka that he been drinking for hours on end had all but taken away his ability to reason. At first he had been skeptical about hanging out with the random nice Russian, Dmitri...
Luck Me A Man Tonight
Luck Me A Man Tonight The bar, a wondrous place to go any time of the day. Some people went to forget their woes, the daily toils of work, drowning away sorrows, old and new alike under the steady streams of alcohol. Other went to socialize, to get...
Voyager: Chapter 18
Voyager: Chapter 18 They were off. Their ship was beginning to rise and leave the dreary old building that had served as their base of operations. I had managed to stop the AIs from opening fire on the ship and the people at the cost of my own...
Midnight Shift
Midnight Shift I was surprised. There were no calls tonight. There was always some sort of domestic disturbance going on in this neighborhood. Some break up going violent and the girlfriend, or even the wife, tries to throw out the man for whatever...
Red Moon: Chapter 4
Red Moon Chapter 4 Trevor did what any other person would have done upon discovering a wolf that could easily fit someone's mouth in their maw, he panicked and hid. He found himself in the bathtub with the plastic shower curtains pulled as if it...
Divine: Chapter 5
Divine: Chapter 5 Marty had crashed before. Plenty of times. It was part of the job when exploring the universe. A person who said that they had never crashed before was lying unless they had just started. In that case, their first crash was real...
Divine: Chapter 7
Divine: Chapter 7 "I need to get back to my ship." Marty told Vargus and slipped his suit back on. It smelled of stale sweat, sweet, but sickly. Normally he would sterilize it before donning it again, but he felt a sense of urgency to get to his ship...