Song of Dead Suns
by Deranged Kitsune Poem by Darren Hall The sound echoed through the halls of the ship despite thick bulkhead construction. It was an almost whistling sound, not quite pipes and not quite birds. That it was music she had no doubt, for the pattern...
Choices
Shattered: Redux Chapter VIII: Choices _Making a big life change is scary. But, know what's even scarier....Regret_ _-Anonymous_ Fox banked hard to the right and rolled his arwing, deflecting the trio of red lasers back at their owner and...
The Eternal Night
_"Unusual..." _ Thought Dunthyon, as he stepped outside. Dunthyon was a Medium sized, white housecat, with a krew-cut hairstyle. One of his legs was a robotic prosthetic, made for him by the Robotics Director. He had lost his leg one day when a...
Dark Inheritance Part I
Shattered: Redux Chapter XI: Dark Inheritance Part I _The past is not so easily forgotten..._ _-Anonymous_ They set down in front of a colossal sand dune, at the heart of the beacon's signal. Their Arwings were left in a small cluster on a flat...
Dead To Me
"Got a little soul The world is a cold, cold place to be Want a little warmth But who's going to save a little warmth for me...?" (Vampire Weekend, Unbelievers) "Hey, Fran...?" Fran's best friend's voice had sounded shaky on the other end of the...
Left for Dead
Left for Dead A Tale from the Agent's Lounge Back so soon, Boris? I suspected hat you had a room nearby set up for secure communications with Moscow and your promptness confirms it. Plus I take it from the look of frustrated anticipation on your face...
The Furry Dead (Medieval Style)
The glint in his eye though...timid realized then that the dead's eyes didn't sparkle. they were dull, lifeless, cloudy...no soul behind them to sparkle madly as this fur's dead.
What Pride Has Wrought
The two injured men swiftly devolved into a savage struggle to lay claim to the handgun, thrashing wildly on the steel grating of the deck as they ferociously wrestled for ownership in a soon to be deadly tug-of-war.
Deadly Like The Dark
Littlefoot looked flabbergasted. He had a 12 foot long carnivore on his back, in a spot he couldn't reach. She could easily bite into him, and tear out his skin, and she was asking him if he was all right? He couldn't get a real good look at her, no...
Humanized (trade...sorta)
It was deadly, we knew it, but we used it almost every single day. we were also running out, however we didn't want to make any more of it. it had...explosive characteristics. one wrong chemical or one wrong amount would be devastating.
Dead Trees
It looked like the scruffy, note-taking rat who he'd noticed earlier turned out to have been there because she'd signed up for the tournament after all, Klein was surprised to see confirmed. Putting pen and paper aside, she'd gotten up from her seat to...
Waking the Dead
\>You're led to Anna's lab, which is a rather large and open room, one set even deeper within the Inquisitory, stacked on all sides with boxes and shelves half-bursting with academic and scientific tomes \>Half of the roof is walled off with a...