A Day in the Undersector
"This is the Undersector..." "Good one, sleuth. Welcome--grab a seat, have some tea." Another retorted, words dripping with sarcasm. The second, a brown bull, fiddled with all sorts of mechanical parts and doohickeys completely abstract to the lynx...
No Man's Land
"You're sure about this, Rey?" "Yep. I've thought about it, and the positives definitely outweigh the negatives." The white rabbit stood before a towering wall that smelled faintly of pine, colored some indistinct dark color, next to it a gaping hole....
Moving Forward
If he hadn't mentally asked himself if he was awake to a near-point of semantic satiation for all three words of the question, at some point having become aware of his own senselessness and inanity, Rey probably wouldn't have realized that he had woken...
Balance of Power
----The Olympic Games; no greater way to prove oneself in the mastery of athleticism, flexibility, and determination. Indeed, even now, as the snow husky sat in nothing but a blue leotard upon a bench awaiting her turn at the balance beams, an air of...
A Simple Greeting
----I'm not going to lie--I had pretty much everything a guy like me could want. I had a cool little job as a waiter at the closest coffee shop, I was already able to afford a quaint house not long after graduating from college, and I kept my family...
The Promotion
----The air smelled of mint and pine. A breeze wrought by neither machine nor nature drifted through the Magus Library, bringing this scent to the twitching nose of Tali, a leopard sorceress clad in robes dyed a royal violet. She was a proud yet...
On Origin's Eve
There it was, just at the edge of his vision. Shapes of varying sizes approached his destination on the horizon, slowly closing in, attempting to siege and steal his salvation. The light of midday shone brightly through the frail cloud-cover, reminding...