The First Contact
I shook my head to clear it. This flight had been the most uneventful flight ever. Since the 23rd of July 1945, known as "Liberator Day" due to the 55 Liberators and their crews that never saw their roosts again, the skies over France had been eerily...
Speak Easy
Speak Easy Korestai © seht Story © Searska GreyRaven It was a quite night at Dean's. Or rather, the speakeasy _below_ the restaurant was quiet. The diner upstairs was doing brisk business. When Kore had passed through the kitchen on his way to the...
Lemurian religions
Over +70,000 years of human occupation, Lemuria boasts a variety of indigenous religions. During both Indian and European colonial rule the indigenous faiths were persecuted, but they still endure strongly and extensive syncretism between them and...
An Alternate History For Placodonts
Placodonts were some of the most resilient groups of Triassic marine reptiles, consistently surviving minor extinction events with minimal diversity loss until the mass extinction. In one timeline, this did not happen. Instead, their diversity...
Sun Goddess of Lemuria
The Sun Goddess (Boa in Werer, Ra in Atratra, Aditeyia in Chola Tamil, among others) is a rather important figure in the indigenous religions of Lemuria. While her worship prior to Austronesian arrival is unclear, sun symbols are engraved in building...
Straighten Up and Fly Right
_In an alternate, dieselpunk 1940s, coyote aviatrix Kalinda Garcia meets a new friend when her experimental plane is forced down in hostile territory._ _Set in the same universe as "Reckless," from my e-anthology_ [Bodies in...
If Only In My Dreams
_Stuck in the Pacific over Christmas, two strangers find ways to pass the time._ _Oh, hey! It's 2020's Christmas story! This is set in an alt-history United States that began to break up in the 1930s. They still have Christmas, though, because...
Cast a Kitten
Cast a Kitten Story © Searska GreyRaven Korestai © Seht _Something was chasing him down a narrow hall. He clutched his notebook in one paw, unwilling to let go. He knew it wanted the notebook and that it mustn't have it,_ couldn't _have it, because...
Kripo
**April 10, 1964** The night’s sleep had been pleasant and Hans Decher was snuggled up with his wife Ilse for the first time in what felt like ages. He could hear the soft patter of rain on the window behind the bed frame - along with the...
The Apostle of Freedom
# The Apostle of Freedom О, майко моя, родино мила, защо тъй жално, тъй милно плачеш? Гарване, и ти, птицо проклета, на чий гроб там тъй грозно грачеш? -Христо Ботев “Обесването на Васил Левски” O, maiko moya, rodino mila, Zashto thai...
Keep the Wings Level and True
_A generation after the United States split apart, Irene's daydreams of a better world bring the Border Collie an interesting proposition..._ _Some straightforward, standalone, good-natured smut for your weekend. Loosely related to "[Straighten Up and...
Dividend We Stand
Midnight November the fifth 1866. Ten miles from the Mississippi River. As the Confederates slept in their trenches and as the soldiers on duty patroled around the camp, something moved in the shadows cast by the torches next to the commanders tent....