Hurricane Kim Chapter 14
Tom's freezing ass scales woke me the next morning when he returned from his pre-dawn patrol. Which was preferable to him awakening in a screaming panic once again. Especially so when there were around two dozen children of the egg stuffed into our...
Learning To Fall Part 8
The next morning, an unknown figure came in. Poking its head into the shelter the person paused with a sudden startled inhalation. The thin early morning light just barely revealed the figures before it, but also revealed the objective. Gathering its...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 19
There were two ambulances and a delivery van full of what turned out to be medical supplies waiting for us once we had trotted across the active airport runways. Looking overhead, I could see an airliner circling above in a holding pattern and waiting...
Learning To Fall Part 4
Six guns remained trained on the alien computer where it continued to lay, with its only movement being to drag its head around to observe the culmination of the events it had set in motion. The alien continued to be oblivious to the gruesome injuries...
House Clearing
“No arguments, Darien,” his harried manager said from behind the array of monitors on her desk. Her name was Madison, a career administrative manager in her...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 18
"She's got over a hundred different lacerations the length of her body. Stab wounds to the front of her chest and to her underbelly as well as to both front paws. Four of her claws are broken off, and three more have been chewed to the quick. The...
The Complexities of Thumper Part 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A UN humanitarian near the Malawian border in Zambia fell to the ground in pain as a budding pair of wings tore...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 21
Boyd eyed the motley assembly that had gathered to accompany us dubiously. As did I, and Tom, for that matter. Although it's not like my mate and I didn't earn our own scrutiny as well from those who should allow us to honor the fucking commitments...
Test Trial No. 1
"Will she show?" Amya Chandler asked. A thickset woman in her forties. The dark-skinned matron from Chad was a senior analyst with the Biggston-Raine consumer engineering firm. She and a dozen of her companions were sitting not so patiently in a circle...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 17
"Start by showing us where the search has been undertaken." I told Jack the next morning. As we all circled around a table with several maps spread out on its top. Taking up a map marker he pinned it to a spot Northeast of town. Wrapping a string...
On Colonizing Part 5
**Noctis** My son hatched today. The first hatchling of a new species. Oh dear, in all my years bringing new life into the world never becomes any less soul shaking. When his piercing blue eyes fell on me after tumbling from his shell I felt the...
A New Family Part 8
A New Family Part 8 Dramatis Personae Family of 5 (Colonists) - Ataksak (Mother) 41 - Negafook (Father) 42 - Nanook (elder son) 22 - Pinga (daughter) 22 - Silla (younger daughter) 8 Other Cast -Nathan (Alpha den Historian, Colonist) 235 -...