Julia: Life of the All-Mother. Pt1 The Archaeologist

Scorching heat beat down on the many bodies that toiled in the dirt. The work was backbreaking, and barely rewarding, needing to be done with shovels and trowels instead of the excavators they'd started with. Sweating in her trench, royal blue...

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Just easier this way

[i]How did it come to this? Reclining on her moaning throne, Jean Strate; mother, psychologist, psycho-therapist, and formerly a very proper raccoon, mused. The young body beneath her, strummed fingers over her naked breasts, head empty and...

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Thank you for your Service

03:00 Republic Joint Operations Base: Hawthorne Residence 31B Milli Smith gave her husband one last bone crushing embrace, and if she wasn't careful, it would have been quite literal. Servos whined in her augmented arms, reinforced plates...

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Draconic Greed

Across the walls, the streets, and buildings of Acaladia, a shadow fell. Swift, with sweeping wings, and long tail, it circled the smooth, white stone city, enveloping rooftop verandas, and terraced gardens in shade, before flying on towards the old...

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Record 225-L13

File: 225-L13 Clearance level: Green Date: REDACTED Location: REDACTED Acting government: 3rd United Imperial, late stage Company chair: REDACTED Document 1, begin playback: \*\*\* First Strike Captain Lena...

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Active Retirement

21 10 121 K12 01:35 Nova Prospect; Republic core world Industrial sector 3 Recreation centre, Bar, The Hole "I just... feel, so empty, get me?" The big piebald dog groused, slumped on the plastic table, her many mechanical...

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Julia: Life of the All Mother. Pt.6 The Redeemed

Deep in the hollow the broodmare birthed, compacted walls of refuse and soil surrounding the narrow den that barely served to fit her enormity. The cave of trash pulsed with warmth, and soft light, for the creature at its heart, like the ant queen in...

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Julia: Life of the All-Mother. Pt.4 The Plaything

Headlights drove skittering shadows through the quiet suburban cul-de-sac. Abandoned rubbish and leaning "For Sale" signs forming stick figures that leapt aside as the equally disreputable sedan turned, and crunched up a weed-infested drive. Its...

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Julia: Life of the All Mother. Pt.5 The Lab-rat

"Amazing what you find in the gutter, isn't it, Doctor Maze?" The two lab-coated figures watched from behind the two-way mirror, as their research material of the last year swung in its chains. The subject hung suspended by four stumps, a lump...

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Julia: Life of the All-Mother. Pt3 The Whore

Julia's face was a cobalt mess. Not from filth, but the long lines of her tears as she loaded each suitcase into the patiently waiting taxi. It was only a day later, as early as she could book a driver for the journey. The moment she'd felt the...

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Julia: Life of the All-Mother. Pt2 The Parent

Julia took a sharp breath, held it, and opened her eyes. Two lines. She moaned. Two months had come and gone since her little “_Encounter”_ at the society dinner, and the changes with it had grown too much to ignore. She'd started...

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Draconic Curiosity

"And so it was that on the thirteenth moon, in the thirty-eighth year of the fourth tyrant of Adasam-" A battered sallet helmet bounced across the icy floor, skidding to a halt at the foot of the conveniently man-sized, floor-standing, icicle. ...

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