The Christmas particle - In The Collider
## The Christmas particle - The Collider Bluish Gecko 17.12.2018 Everybody loves somebody sometimes. Everybody falls in love somehow. Dean Martin "What a mess of a Christmas!" This depressing thought had lingered in the back of Samantha's mind...
Starborne: New Beginnings - Swan Song
### 3.3 Swan Song "CASSIE?" No reply. The NeuraLink is working all right: The ship's ubiquituous data streams are flowing as they always do, all systems reporting in nominally. Your autonomous aspects - the ship's subconscious, if you will - are all...
Starborne: New Beginnings - Rising Star
### 3.2 Rising Star The trip to our proper first contact begins without further ado: I hang on to one of the waiting drone platforms, instructing its guidance systems to plot the shortest path to the location I was invited to. "Where exactly are you...
Starborne: New Beginnings - Sentio, Ergo Sum
## Chapter 4 New Beginnings Sentio, ergo sum. * * * I feel, therefore I am. ### 4.1 Sentio, ergo sum "CASSIE - the p... pack? The ship... Phoenix?" "The crew - alive and unharmed. The ship is safe - Captain. We... you savedus." The last words I...
Hunter of Mad Kings: From Beyond the Grave
Shaking hands - their skin long since wrinkled, having carried the burdens of age so long that youth has become a distant memory - hold on to a thick bundle of notepaper, the linen-white sheets covered with immaculate lines of handwriting. The cover...
Aurora Borealis
31st of December, 23:53 - when the city that never sleeps is also the city where nobody sleeps. With another year about to end and the next about to begin New York is filled with expectant joy. Another year I have no paw digits left to count since I've...
Starborne - Trial by Fire: Iridescent
### 2.4 Iridescent "... an Iridiscent." With another sudden ˜ jolt, what was nothing but an endless stream of indecipherable ... images, impressions, experiences conveyed by a way of sensing ... perception, understanding ... becomes comprehensible....
Starborne - Trial by Fire: Contact
### 0.1 Contact I can feel you fading away - your body can not carry on like this any more. You wereso determined to see this through ... noticing, but not commenting on thesupplement of stimulants I applied as soon as your stamina would start to...
Starborne - Trial by Fire: A Small Step for a Canine
### 0.1 A Small Step for a Canine Sleep came with astonishing ease, and so did the memories. A childhood of austerityand hardship in the European Federation - successor to the European Union, after theharsh realities of a deteriorating ecosphere...
The Christmas Particle - A Quantum of Entanglements: Lightning Rod
### 1.2 Lightning Rod Softly humming a Christmas carol to herself, the coyotess got to work. Examining the microcontroller Thomashad brought with him to control his personalized Christmas light show, she found to her surprise that the small computer...
Starborne - Trial by Fire: Final Countdown
### 2.5 Final Countdown A deep gasp, eyes flying open - I'm back in the real world! It quickly turns out circumstances are no better than in the Iridescent's dream-like reality: The first breath I take back in my real body falls short to provide more...
The Christmas Particle - Passion at the Speed of Light: Eigenfrequency
### 3.2 Eigenfrequency Sam found herself swiped off her paws before she fully realized what was happening, Tom having picked her up from their embrace to carry her in his arms. He remained on the spot for a few seconds, looking around...