Learning To Fall Part 9
The rest of the morning passed that way. Serena inside with Luke and Lucy, Brian under the colorful tutelage of Kim, and Tom conversing with Thumper and Prometheus. All around them the scurrying soldiers doing this and that, and for the most part...
A New Family Ending
A New Family Ending Dramatis Personae Family of 5 (Colonists) - Ataksak (Mother) 41 - Negafook (Father) 42 - Nanook (elder son) 22 - Pinga (daughter) 22 - Asa (adopted son of Pinga) 4 - Silla (younger daughter) 8 Other Cast -Nathan (Alpha den...
A New Family Part 1
A New Family Part 1 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 -...
Interlude: Into the Wild Blue Yonder
Click-click ssshhh, click-click ssshhh, click-click ssshhh. A muffled moan and then a loud thud followed that resounded around the room before the clicking noise resumed but at a more frequent rhythm. Click-clack-click-clack, click-clack-click-clack....
Hurricane Kim Chapter 5
The next morning began just like most others, Tom screaming himself awake when he felt three more limbs than he was born with. His terrified roars grew even louder when he saw that he was surrounded by more lizards, like usual. I swear it's like some...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 9
Humming made me awaken, but not all at once. The first time I heard it I was asleep again just as I realized what it was. The second time I opened my eyes long enough to stare at a large fuzzy shape which only made sense when I felt it sniff me before...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 24
A shudder ran through my back and wings when I cringed at the sound of bone being ground back in Kim's arm. Knowing that our children could feel the vibrations through her body, I was holding them asleep while the prep work for surgery was done. The...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 2
Pushing with my front legs, I squatted back onto my tail and sprung upwards using rear legs and tail alike to make a stomach dropping leap. With one flap I rose higher, with two I was above the trees, and with three I was making gentle circles as Tom...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 3
All my glee boiled away like water on a hot stove when I turned backed to my husband and his eyes shimmering with tears. Startled, I reared back and my own began to burn once more... Tom... Tommy? What is wrong? I warbled, uncertain of what just...
Maelstrom Part 1
**Undisclosed Location, American Samoa** “And how many others agreed with the information, Senior Chief Moreau?” the bland suit asked Pattie. After three days of this, it took all her...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 13
With my eyes filled with nothing but the dull sky above and anguish filling my mind I didn't know who joined in my terrible banshee scream next. But by the time my throat was as raw as my emotions I heard enough to know that every child of the egg here...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 11
When I awoke the next morning, I felt the heat of several bodies next to mine, and opening my eyes, I saw Tom on one side of me with our twins between our snouts, and on the other Hayate's smaller (and cold from his turn at patrol!) form. As his head...