For Baltimore
Amy hadn't been asleep. She couldn't sleep, and she knew that because she couldn't dream. She could power her systems down, reduce all functionality to the core minimum that kept the space ship running and would wake her if her captain called. It...
Just Stories
Tobias sat at his mother's knee with wide eyes as she told him tales about ages long past, days when spirits both good and evil roamed the earth. To him, they were just stories, but they were entrancing and enrapturing, and he held onto each word with...
Dry Eyes, Cold Hearts (Ch. 11)
"Just three. I challenge you." "You have nothing to wager with! Your life is forfeit, and your soul is condemned before both gods!" "I disagree. I challenge you to a trial by combat. If I lose, you are correct, and you may bury me beneath the earth....
Long Way Down
For years, I'd dreamed of becoming a pilot, navigating the inky black reaches of space. It didn't matter what I did, or who I worked for, I just wanted the freedom bought by a star ship. My dream was, unfortunately hindered by the fact that I'd pulled...
Sick Hearts
Gloryhole floor: the ultimate anonymity fantasy. Two rooms, separated by one wall with a single hole on it. The room is mostly bare, not much to it. The lighting is good, but it's not like it'll help. You can't be entirely sure who's on the other side...
Voltage
My memories are made from blood and pain. I don't mean to be dramatic, but it's a simple fact. Death heralded the beginning of my life. Not my birth... no, when I was born, I was normal enough... for a wolf, at least. I don't look it now, but really,...
Do or Die (Side Story)
He'd said it was a private mansion, but Jacqueline Angelina Blue Jay hadn't quite expected it to be THIS big. The private estate on the edge of the suburbs certainly looked like it was large enough to hold the entire senior class, which was a good...
Prelude
Our story start as most stories do... with war. Ours is a violent people, with conflict reaching all the way back to the stone age. Greed and envy, wrath and intolerance, prejudice and racism, any cause was a just cause for bloodshed. The myriad...
Chapter 1
Prelude So you found me... congratulations. I suppose that means you want to hear my story? The legend of how it all went wrong... of how good intentions led us straight to hell. Of how it's all my fault, because who else will stand in to take the...
The Catalyst, Ch. 3
I didn't know who he was, at the time. How could I have? It's not like he told me, not like anyone noticed. If I knew then what I knew now... maybe I would have taken his advice. It's funny sometimes, what key events the world turns on. A young man...
Story time with Kalokin
Kalokin slithered over to just in front of the Illusion wall and coiled himself comfortably. His eyes lost focus as he started swaying to an unheard rhythm. All light in Magma darkened before spilling through the air to paint a vast vista behind him....
Lone Wolves
KS: He was new to town, the kind of arrival that only draws attention in all the wrong circles. He had no wheels and little cash, but once you knew the gutters of one city, you knew the rest well enough. People don't change even when the sights do. ...