Chapter 1
A cold, dead smile grinned up at Rika with a stone-like complexion. It was a frightful sight: somewhere between undead and mentally disturbed. The bland, grey concrete had been perfectly smooth when she had started hours before. Now at least this...
Streetcars
"#Knocker two seven this is Stretch, orbital bombardment had ceased. Push given vector to sector seven three two nine and secure atmosphere.#" "Copy Stretch," Book said, the pilot and captain of our small interceptor. "Knocker flight two seven...
Chapter 2
There was a bright light in the clearing they had hiked to. It was rectangular, as if someone had opened a door to a brightly lit room in the night. It caused her to squint if she looked at it, but it illuminated the rest of the clearing enough for...
Wet Cement: Chapter 13
The sun made Rika squint as she stepped into the unit's parking lot, despite being low in the sky. [Thank god,] Gamun said, the door to airframes banging shut behind them. "You said it," Rika said. "I was starting to worry about what we would do...
Analog Pt. I
Rob and his friend varg helped their lead singer, ron samson, after his home had burned down in an electrical fire.
Wet Cement: Chapter 12-2: Sleep
"After you," Echo said, holding the door open. "I still can't believe he made you give them your key. Now I'm paranoid. What do you think they're going to come in here and do?" She collapsed into an easy chair. "I don't know. They live upstairs....
Chapter 4
Rika sighed and set her PDA down, glancing at the troubleshooting tree on the display one last time. She did NOT like where this gripe was going. Grabbing a tool from her box she set about unlatching the grip pad from the floor the crew quarters. It...
You Are Mine
You are Mine Sleet stung my face every time the breeze blew it under the overhang. I leaned back against the wall and slid down to sit on the tiny patch of dry concrete that ran along its length. I watched the pellets of ice bounce off the concrete...
Wet Cement: Chapter 14
Shepard stared at the ground as she walked back towards the hanger, helmet bag in hand. She'd have to speak with Mallet and Flatface tonight. They kept pushing. It was unintentional and she couldn't blame them, but even from her silence they were...
Chapter 10
Rika blinked a few times, staring at her hands while she tried to remember the way they used to look like. Were they hard and calloused, or tender and soft? Or were they like Eve's: slightly calloused yet retaining their femininity? What were her...
Magik & Myth; Falling of the Dusk: Blood Dawn (Chpt 5)
The varg, the holy stories of the dawnwalkers, were written only once, by the very hand of the divine, itself.
Chapter 3
\*\*\*\*\*\* She was flying, high and very, very fast. Below her she could see the curve of the earth as it appeared to twirl backwards, the swirling clouds bursting into brilliance as the sun rose in the west. She was in a cockpit, and even though...