Of Wolves and Foxes, Chapter 5
CHAPTER 5 The wall terminal flashed an incoming message and Scott finished buttoning his shirt before responding. "Yes?" he asked after tapping the receiver. The message came as audio only. "Commander Banks, this is Doctor Simon. We thought you...
Of Wolves and Foxes, Prologue
PROLOGUE _27 August 2282, Common Date_ "Frontier command, this is Group Commander Paul Wallace of the _ILS Marathon_. Do you copy?" The commander of the _Imperial Lupine Ship Marathon_, an explorer-class survey cruiser, was a strongly-built wolf of...
Enemy, Chapter 9
Final Chapter of "Enemy." Thanks for reading! Chapter 9 10 January 2358 Beep beep...Beep beep...Beep beep... It was the first thing I perceived. What was that constant beeping? It was loud and clear as a bell in my two ears. With every pulse...
Enemy, Chapter 8
Chapter 8 It was still night when I was awoke by a slap to the muzzle. If it was the sound of my jaws clacking together that woke me, it was the sharp pain of a broken tooth that informed me I was not dreaming. I couldn't see anything-there was a hood...
Enemy, Chapter 7
Chapter 7 I was stunned, almost in shock. The Ursine had come, to our planet, probably lured by my distress signal. They had found and captured the Nuara, and it would not at all be difficult to realize that a wolf was here with it, using supplies and...
Enemy, Chapter 6
Chapter 6 29 December 2357 "It looks like there's a greenish patch of vegetation at seventy five degrees," I said into the microphone of the small transmitter clipped to my earlobe. There wasn't much my small spacial mapping computer could tell me...
Enemy, Chapter 5
Chapter 5 _Somewhere an alarm screamed. What it was saying, Nathaniel couldn't guess over the ringing in his ears. What he did know was that he was suffocating, choking on a black acrid smoke that tasted like burnt rubber on his tongue. He had to get...
Enemy, Chapter 3
Chapter 3 _"Commander!" came an urgent voice over the intercom. "The buffer's going critical! The energy is feeding back into the ship's systems and I can't redirect the reaction without causing an overload or a burnout."_ _Electronics were...
Enemy, Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Much of my early training on survival techniques--which I had so easily forgotten over the years--had begun to surface. Maybe it was my subconscious devotion to continuing my life that willed that knowledge to the forefront of my mind. Maybe...