MoonDust, Chapter 35
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail 35 SACRED DUTY Waiting was the hardest part of any plan. They'd picked oh-two-hundred hours to launch their assault, but shortly after midnight the door rasped open. Startled out of her...
MoonDust, Chapter 34
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail 34 SOLDIER GRAY They'd been given a stack of field rations at what Imogene's stomach said was dinner time. But that was hours ago, and neither Bruce nor Aaron had returned. Imogene gnawed a...
MoonDust, Chapter 33
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail 33 RETURN An abandoned rifle lay in the dust, but Imogene didn't dare stop walking to retrieve it. Colonel Bychkov and one of her men with a sniper rifle were watching from the rim of Borda's...
MoonDust, Chapter 32
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail 32 FRIENDS, RODENTS, COUNTRYMEN Less than an hour after the colonel left them, the cargo compartment's already dim lights went dark. They were too far away for the blinding white flash of the...
MoonDust, Chapter 31
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail 31 ROADSIDE ATTRACTION The Armor Corps sergeant knelt, studying the dusty ruts left by a group of vehicles. Two sets of track diverged here, one heading into a steep-walled canyon on the left,...
MoonDust, Chapter 30
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail 30 SHADES OF GRAY The new members of Sergeant Lauren Porter's squad received a motley assortment of scavenged armor and equipment. Imogene was glad she only needed a new rifle. Poorly fitted...
MoonDust, Chapter 29
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail 29 LOST AND FOUND Time didn't matter on the dusty abandoned road. Imogene's chronometer ticked off the hours, but in the weeks-long lunar night, they were nothing but numbers. When she and Bruce...
MoonDust, Chapter 11
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail 11 PANDA PROBLEMS "--the hell do you think you're doing?" The Sergeant's words floated into Imogene's mind. Foggily, she wondered what she'd done wrong this time. Her head hurt, and as she blinked...
MoonDust, Chapter 10
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail 10 IN LOVE AND WAR Things were starting to fall together, Imogene thought as she took her armor down from its pegs. A black heart outline around her initials now enlivened her breastplate,...
MoonDust, Chapter 9
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail 9 STARLIGHT STARBRIGHT Imogene couldn't tell if any of the survivors were Josh. Furred heads bobbed in the water, too tiny on the bar's screen to identify. Edging forward, she stared up at the...
MoonDust, Chapter 8
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail 8 BLACK AND WHITE The metal target swung as the bullet hit, and Imogene allowed herself a grim smile. It might not have fur or yellow eyes, but the target was the right shade of silver-gray. Her...
MoonDust, Chapter 7
MoonDust: Falling From Grace © 2015 Ton Inktail7 HART THROB Imogene spent the following day with the demolitions department, learning how best to blow things up in vacuum. Without air to transmit shock waves, a lot of conventional devices were...