Integration: Part Thirteen
**Integration** **Part 13** Kira's blue eyes slowly tracked the small, fluttering insect as it lazily darted around the glow of the light wedged in between the shrubbery. It was a stupid little thing, smacking against the light again and again,...
Integration: Part Twelve
**Integration** **Part Twelve** Captain Duntay stood at the end of second platoon's room. Kira watched as the viliti listened to Lieutenant Fahne Kultak describe Maduk's prodding into the relationship between her and her charge, Sergeant Russell...
Integration: Part Eight
**Integration** **Part Eight** The Karshi, the ship Kemeng left on, was one of the ships that went back and forth from Earth to various points in UTO space. The human home world saw a lot of traffic from its alien allies as ships delivered...
Anatalay University
**UTO: Anatalay University** A soft electronic beep began to blurt from a computer on a bedroom desk, demanding attention. A tired groan from under a blue blanket on the nearby bed was all it received in turn. The chimes grew harsher and louder in...
Cambrai
Synopsis: It is 1917 and the British plan to attack along the Hindenburg Line with a new type of extremely lethal gas. Unknown to them the gas has an unforeseen effect on animals. Soon after the deployment of the new weapon, a small group of surviving...
Out There by Wyldsyde
**Chapter 1** The quarters in the ship was illuminated only by a single computer screen and the myriad twinkling stars of space that could be seen through the room's wide window. Aside from the constant hum of the ship's engine that permeated the...
Subjugation by Wyldsyde
**Chapter 1** Rain fell down upon the city of Darrintin, a steady downpour enough to get one wet and chilled to the bone if out in it for more than a second or two. It made the streets slick, reflecting the light from the traffic signals, street...
Surrender: Chapter 1
**Surrender** **Chapter 1:** It took more than a beast to win a fight. The roar of the massive cat that bore down on her drew no reaction. Virtue one: Focus. For the third time, the ra’lai, a cream-furred, brown-maned ra’monaar, charged after...
Surrender: Chapter 6 & Epilogue
**Chapter 6: ** A shaft of light beat down upon Rufu’s eyelids, stirring her from sleep. Slowly, she came to the waking world. Morning sun was leaking in through any crack it could find, caring not that the blinds were...
Surrender: Chapter 5
**Chapter 5: ** Ken wasn’t sure how long he’d been lying here, awake. There wasn’t even a trickle of light creeping in from behind the blinds. The ceiling, as distant as the stars in the heavens, was so dark it might as well have been the...
Surrender: Chapter 2
Chapter 2: Ken knew something was wrong. It didn’t take a genius to figure that out. Maybe Rufu was a bad liar, or maybe he just knew her well enough to tell she hadn’t been honest. Either way, the idea that her family kept her so busy all...
Surrender: Chapter 3
**Chapter 3: ** Rufu wasn’t sure how long she’d laid in bed awake, unable to fall back asleep. Long enough for sunlight to start peeking through her blinds. Long enough, even, to know that staring at the ceiling and...