Inevitability, part 2
Inevitability pt. 2 As he slept, the rain picked up. The flashes of lightning, which at first were sporadic, now were striking somewhere every few seconds. The thunder, originally only a muted roar, now drowned out all other nearby...
Earthshine
The night air was crisp and lovely, the summer sky was beautiful and lit up with stars but that was not what caught Reggie's attention. What did catch him was the moon, a perfect crescent. For years, the inquisitive wolf had wondered why on nights of...
Time Measure Money
What time is it. See that? He checked his watch. He asked it what time it is, and it told him. And without question or quarrel, without ponder, he believed it. A machine and a human being, working together. But that system doesn't end quite so...
Event Horizon
**Event Horizon** "Step right inside and see the home of the future, today!" Marin hid a smile as she walked past the portly beaver standing atop a dais, despite the...
Starborne - Trial by Fire: Improvise, Adapt, Overcome
## Chapter 3 Trial By Fire ### 3.1 Improvise, Adapt, Overcome Weightlessness could be a cozy feeling, if it wasn't for the headache that has accompanied every single of the three times I have come back to my senses on board of the Phoenix. As it is,...
Starborne - Adrift in a Sea of Stars: Into the Light
To thephoenix's sections: the hibernation module at the heart of the ship that carries earth's and mankind's combined legacy in the shape of billions of dna samples and the hibernated connectomes of twenty thousand volunteers, as well as data records on sciences
Starborne - Adrift in a Sea of Stars: Out of the Dark
## Chapter 2 Adrift in a Sea of Stars Per aspera ad astra. * * * Through hardship to the stars. ### 2.1 Out of the Dark For an artificial mind that measures passing moments in nanosecond increments, running out of time is a bitter-sweet irony....
The Security Guys
Hello everyone, Some time ago I had this idea for a short story about predation and the ethics behind it, a story about a buffalo and his job, a politician and his book and a dangerous city. I don't have a lot of experience writing anthropomorphic...
"…and now come Cats!" (prologue)
PROLOGUE _Narrative of Gladys Stooping Falcon, Imperial Summoner in Extraordinary_ I've seen a lot of strange things. It comes with the territory. I've seen a man who had been reincarnated take the Oath Beyond Death for a second time. I've seen the...
Beloved Wolf Chapter 2
''DING!'' The lift announced that it was here and ready to go back down to the labs. Jack threw out the cigarette butt out of the window and took a deep breath of fresh air, then he closed the window. After that he went to the lift what was waiting...
The Exterminator
I'm an exterminator. It's what I do. I know it's not the most glamorous job in the universe. Hell, I'd say it might be one of the least. But it pays the bills, it's not too stressful, and it always gets me back home in time for dinner. It's not much...
Rise of Red Comet chapter 5, Transition
Soon enough, after various odd jobs and one night stands, the time came for James' reassignment. He went into the medical center detailed by the therapist, went up to the front counter and said, "James Scale, I believe I had an appointment set up...