Squeak Show!
**Squeak Show** "Lights! Camera! Action!" The collected voices of the studio audience whooped out their joy and cheered as the house lights came on, revealing a large circular stage in the centre of stadium seating. Over ten thousand individuals...
Bubble Buddy
**Bubble Buddy** It was Sunday evening, shops were starting to close up for the night, and the night owls were out in force. While some still needed to work the following morning, many others had flexible schedules. One such individual was...
Digital Life
**Digital Life** "Begin recording. Pilot E77204-73B reporting in on survey 26 of Luyten 726-8. This is report number 3 of my journey through the Luyten system, I will be departing for home base shortly." The pilot paused speaking to tap at a few...
The Exodus - Part 4
The Exodus - Part 4 The Horoshi space program was at full swing, and had been for years. There were more applicants to the program than there were ships to put crews on. Every year or so another deep-space research ship was finished, and it went off...
The Exodus - Part 3
The Exodus - Part 3 A warning siren sounded through the halls of the launch bay, signalling that the transport was ready to go. The sleek little vessel was a passenger ship, rigged up for short range travel between planets orbiting the nearby red...
The Exodus - Part 2
The Exodus - Part 2 A tone chimed overhead, waited a few moments, then chimed once again. It was morning once more, at least that's what the clocks said. The lights slowly turned themselves on, illuminating a small windowless room covered with metal...
The Exodus - Part 1
The Exodus - Part 1 Small birds and other assorted wildlife made their usual chatter as the sun started to creep over the horizon, sending beams of bright light into various windows. Thousands of well decorated and elegantly designed buildings dotted...
Under the Bed
**Under The Bed** Daylight. Even that managed to worm its way through cracks in the overhead canopy of tangled vines and thick leaves, giving rise to growing levels of steamy fog and the morning calls of hidden wildlife. It was another day in another...
The New World
**The New World** **Chapter 1: The new world.** "Set condition green! System charge is at 95%, all passengers stand by for transport. T-minus, 5 minutes!" The operators went through the motions like they did with every transport, but they still...
Sky Mistress
**Sky Mistress** Nobody was really quite sure when it all started, all we're sure of is the current state of affairs. Our small country is plagued from within, its population being preyed on by monsters. If it isn't werewolves in the forests, trolls...
Balloonasaur
**Balloonasaur** Product testing is a wonderful thing, but sometimes you just can't get the market research you might desire without live field testing. When you're in the more specialized markets of the world, this can be harder than one might...
A Balloonie's Tale
**A Balloonie's Tale** Nobody really knows how it all started, but we certainly know how it ended. The old adage of the world ending not with a bang but a whimper couldn't have been more wrong. The world ended with a bang alright, several of them....