City of Light Chapter 1: Arrival (old)
Scales and Honor: City of Light Chapter 1: Arrival Veledar the red wrymling raced through the forest quickly on his little legs. His tan membraned wings were folded over his back, being as they were still too small to carry...
The Stories
It was the first time in his encounter with david that he wondered if perhaps the flirtation was far more innocent than... well, than he had hoped, if he were being honest with himself.
Missives
Sir, If it please you, I write concerning our last meeting one week and six days ago at Mister G-'s manor, wherein we spent a happy hour discussing the finer points of his garden. You requested that I write back upon returning home and I find myself...
Birds of a Feather
"No, that's _not_ how this works, you broken condom. You brain fried vacuum suckers tampered with your AI's logic board power supply and that's what sent it haywire." Jack leaned his head back against the cool wall of his office turned bedroom,...
Live by the Roark, Die by the Roark
Legal matters were a funny thing in known space, the twisting galactic corn maze of law being one that many simply refused to try and navigate. Take, for example, a stolen candy bar, a delectable Rimbar from Argon Inc. in fact. A small length of...
Fox Trot (Chapter4, Act1, Book3)
Fox Trot _Meanwhile... (13 hours ahead)_ _Tokyo, Japan_... **Jules Guillot took hold of his attacker's wrists** , put his foot on the man's stomach and leaned back into a half-roll. His attacker went flying backwards into another man rushing up...
Star Blind
Life hadn't been kind to Anderson Milay. Born to an austere family on a backwater planet where the only hope to pay your bills or put food on the table was to break your back for a mining company. Or turn to crime, but corporate enforcement knew better...
Parade
Consciousness returned to a tired, sore, but oh so satisfied Lix with all the speed of slow-moving molasses. Warmth permeated the cold-blooded reptile, twisted up in Jack's limbs as she was, with her head on his slowly rising chest. The man was rudely...
Holes
Lix was not an easy person to surprise, so when Jack eased the Gerthtrude out into the Great Black with nary a creak of the hull or pop of a rivet, she had to offer a curious tilt of her head. Wide vessels often creaked and groaned like the elderly...
Battle Stations
Air re-pressurized the Gerthtrude's cargo bay with a piercing hiss that stabbed at the ears as Jack cinched the final mag tether keeping the No Safety Measures secured to the deck with a grunt. She fit like a glove, a big glove made of steel and power...
Rest, Recuperation, Repair
Love Like Oil, Act Two Koorka Station greeted Jack and Lix with in the same spirit as when they had left; with bodies, the stale smog of a dozen different species crowded together in too small a space, and the promise of riches for those who had the...
Skrunkles
If excitement could be bottled, distilled, and processed into fuel… Jack would leave Lix somewhere in a food court and chain Mo'Ona in the depths of his garage. All he'd have to do would be to feed the little rat-lizard stories of the Last Stop...