Division
Division Allen listened to the gentle beat of Tanith’s wings. He had tucked himself just under an ridge of the saddle to hide his body from the cold air that passed right through his cloths. It helped him little to put more cloths on to stop the wind...
Black wings of death
# Black wings of death Allen hold thigh to the metal serving tray that held his lunch. After all the days eating emergency rations he was happy about some solid food down in his stomach. Something warm, what he was not happy about was that that it was...
Primo Victoria
# Primo Victoria It took two days before Allen was walking again. With the thanks to an extract from willow bark, his headaches had eased just a bit. When he took the bitter tasting water that was soaked with the bark, he could feel the...
Alt Earth 4077 Historical Post 5
Lupe Lexicon System LLS v1.0: Active Lupratek Database System v6.0: Historic Archive Request File Available: Adaptive Colonization from Earth File Entry: 00005 Subject: Adaptive Colonization from Earth Time Stamp: 1.23.0800AW \<2nd Space Age...
A Long Drive
# Chapter 1: A Long Drive _June 7'th 1988 08:00 Hours West Woodburn, Northumberland, North East England_ It wasn't the scents that woke me, nor the sounds, nor even the vibrations through the earth of dozens of feet treading the ground not...
Inbreeding
# Chapter 8: Inbreeding _June 10'th 1988 07:15 Hours The Kennel, London, England_ Taking a step back from the door, I readied myself for when the Dog would step in. He simply stood there. At long last the door tentatively opened. ...
Jonathan
Chapter 1: JonathanJune 1, 198817:47 HoursOutside of West Woodburn, Northumberland, North East EnglandI found the boy. He lay still and peaceful, skin having turned blue and begun to bloat. He was face down, floating buck naked in the River...
Examination
# Chapter 12: Examination _August 18'rd 1995 12:15 Hours The Kennel, London, England_ "Forty-Seven." The lady running front desk for the Final Exam never even looked up. He was nothing more to her than just another Dog. She hadn't heard a...
A Private Breeder
# Chapter 5: A Private Breeder _June 9'th 1988 04:30 Hours Somewhere beneath London, England_ I came to slowly, like surfacing from a deep, dark pool. It felt as though someone had stuffed my head with cotton batten, like I was awakening from...
Looking in the Mirror
# Chapter 9: Looking in the Mirror _July 3'rd 1993 21:00 Hours London, England_ I slept in a hotel that evening. The idea of spending a night in the Kennel sickened me. The hotel was not high class. It was, at best, middling, the type of...
Brothers and Sisters
# Chapter 7: Brothers and Sisters _June 9'th 1988 20:45 Hours The Kennel, London, England_ I wasn't sure where he'd found it, but Handler Llyal offered us some day old Chinese takeout. The little paper boxes even had the traditional metal...
Cobblestones and Threadbare Shirts
# Chapter 2: Cobblestones and Threadbare Shirts _June 8'th 1988 02:00 Hours The Kennel, London, England_ For just an instant I hung in the air, two stories above the blacktop. Thousands of razor sharp shards of glass sparkled around me in the...