No Last Chances-Chapter 1
**No Last Chances** **Chapter 1** "I'm fucking bored." This was the message that my brain decided to play to me over and over again in my head. I lay awkwardly on a pile of weeds which often whipped my face. The hood of my...
Still Searching: Humble Beginnings
_Why is it that we all reach out for someone? Seriously, how did this yearning for pairing off come to be? Is it instinctual, or do we just think it is because everyone's done it for the past so many hundreds of years?_ _And why is it that every...
Still Searching: Cast Away
Rik's timing proved to be off by a couple of minutes, and the incoming storm caught up to them and opened up just under minute before they got back. The sheer force of the wind and scale of the downpour however was so big that just a minute out in the...
Still Searching: A Rose by Any Other Name
"She's coming here!" Rik boldly declared as he ecstatically burst into the mess hall. A few members of his squadron were there, including his co-pilot, Aleksi. When the fox burst in most of them jumped at his sudden invasion of the peace. Once...
Still Searching: The White Fox
"Knight Eight, permission granted. You are cleared to land, over." The familiar monotone voice croaked through the radio, punctuating his last sentence with a static hiss to mark the end of the transmission. Knight Eight took a while to make his...
No Last Chances-Chapter 4
**Chapter 4** I had no idea where I was. Nor at that moment did I realise that I was moving. I'd just woken up from being knocked out and hadn't completely orientated myself. All I could really register was the fact that the ground was...
Still Searching: Come Fly With Me
Rik had to wait some time before Kierra could take a break from her shift. It was beginning to head towards dinner time by the time she had finished up. She had to take part in a dive tour, to which Rik volunteered to take part in until he was told...
Still Searching: Lost and Found
Cold. It was cold. The office Rik sat in was heavily air-conditioned. In contrast with the warmth outside, this was arctic to him. The pilot sat hand-cuffed uncomfortably to an uneven chair. Also in the office were two guardsmen. He couldn't see them,...
Zeke's Story-Part 1
Before you read this, you must know a few things. First off, this whole thing was rushed. I can't be bothered to explain why, but it's in my journals if you're interested. All in all, rushing means mistakes; expect them. And if Zekay is reading this,...
Still Searching: Burnout
Storms: the most frustrating aspect of life in the tropics that Rik could come up with. They snuck up on you unexpectedly around here, unlike say in Europe where the weather is a lot more subtle in its changes. The Tiger Moth had been returned to the...