A New Purpose Part 3
Sometime later, I felt a nudge. And then another. Then a voice spoke; "c'mon Dad, you're heavy." Finally the voice registered. And panic flared anew in my body. "Lucy! What are you doing? I thought your mother told you to stay in the attic! We could...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 27
The sadness of the baleful calls fed into me until I was swept away by the feelings of loss at how much dimmer the world was with the disappearance of the lights gone that day. The smell of my brother fell away when I sat up and swayed in time to the...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 10
With shuddering twitches Tomoko began to grow. Greater and greater it swelled, its wings creaking as they flared enormously wide. Its back broadening, dragging the size of its tail and neck along with it. Spines began to erupt from its neck and its...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 23
"I feel hungry..." I was frozen by my mate's words, staring with the same disbelief that Jill had looking down at what she had done. The violence of what had just occurred. A rescue mission to reunite a family that we thought we had been prepared for...
Rising Tides Part 1
Manaaki held the hand of Airini, his wife, tightly as they sat cross-legged next to each other on the heaps of sea-colored pillows in the monumental meeting-house for the hui that the... well.... He didn't know what the proper names of the creatures...
A New Purpose Part 2
I woke seven hours later as my brother shook me awake. "Alex?" I queried groggily. "Get up you slug, your wife says you've slept enough." I snapped awake "God damn it Kim! I said four hour shifts!" She looked up from where she was sitting next to...
Hurricane Kim Ending
The joy that my family brought with them was more than enough for me to break into trilling song. Stalling into a hover, my wings beat back and forth as Irma slammed...
On Colonizing Part 1
On Colonizing **Riku** (Soldier, Male, Japanese) Fuck, I thought, as if life wasn't short enough as it was. I had already consigned myself to volunteering for what was to come, I didn't need some governmental zombie droning on about the legal...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 6
It was an uneventful flight, although it did feel weird to be holding a couple of my friends in my feet as I flapped through the sky hundreds of meters above the ground. Once in a while I could feel them shift to look at something, or I supposed...
A New Family Part 2
A New Family Part 2 Dramatis Personae Family of 5 from the Archives: (Descended from United Americas of Old Earth) - Ataksak (Mother) 41 - Negafook (Father) 42 - Nanook (elder son) 22 - Pinga (daughter) 22 - Silla (younger son) 8 Other Cast -...
A New Purpose Part 7
Irma snorted derisively and cracked her tail. "Skin or scale? We can't even agreeee how to treat those with different colorsss, to say nothing of whatever isss to be made of usss now. What happened to him declaring martial law?" Ulysses stepped...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 8
To give them some peace, all of us adults, as well as Hayate, moved up to the back patio of my home. Alex went in to get a bottle of whiskey for himself and Helen. Tomoko was happy to provide each dragon a ginger root and we settled down to process...