War's Oversight - Chapter 00 (Prologue)
**War's Oversight** {From the author -- this is a story which has been bouncing around within the confines of my head for a little over half my life. I would say, "It has been the subject of many changes." "Which?" you might ask. "The story? The...
War's Oversight - Chapter 01
**War's Oversight** **Chapter 01** Sarah turned her body in a final surge of effort, and kept a grip on her shovel as another load of loose rock sailed a short distance through the air to land in the bed of the wheelbarrow nearby. She let the shovel...
War's Oversight - Chapter 10
**War's Oversight** **Chapter 10** Sarah felt herself come gradually awake at the unpleasant chill of a gust of cold wind against her upper arm. She squeezed her closed eyes further shut in an attempt to rid herself of the pounding headache between...
War's Oversight - Chapter 02
**War's Oversight** **Chapter 02** Sarah slid the plastic tray containing her lunch onto the table in front of her, and then settled herself onto the worn bench which passed for seating in the colony's mess hall. Around her, empty tables and a...
War's Oversight - Chapter 09
**War's Oversight** **Chapter 09** The Chakri remained crouched at his vantage point for a long moment, trying to digest what he was seeing. His training had prepared him for the possibility that he would be approached by humans - whether soldiers...
War's Oversight - Chapter 05
**War's Oversight** **Chapter 05** Sarah tipped her head back slightly and closed her eyes, listening to the gentle melody of an operatic aria over the computer speakers in her room. She rested a hand on her belly, which she knew intellectually was...
War's Oversight - Chapter 08
**War's Oversight** **Chapter 08** Sarah had finally reached the point she'd been striving toward for just shy of two hours duration - an unremarkable patch of dusty ground which sat at the foot of the craggy landscape that was Omicron Kappa...
War's Oversight - Chapter 04
**War's Oversight** **Chapter 04** Omicron Kappa 3's star formed the faintest of lines as it was squeezed and flattened against the horizon in the west - an arc of blinding amber. Then, the arc was squeezed and compressed from either end until it...
War's Oversight - Chapter 06
**War's Oversight** **Chapter 06** For Sarah, it wasn't the contrary motions of flying that sent her stomach to lurching. She'd led an active youth and an active adulthood, with her fair share of pleasant experiences on a swing or, more rarely, an...
War's Oversight - Chapter 07
**War's Oversight** **Chapter 07** A faint light shone in the middle of what was otherwise impenetrable blackness. To human eyes, it might have been a moonless night under a starless, overcast sky, with nothing but the smallest of candle flame to...
War's Oversight - Chapter 03
**War's Oversight** **Chapter 03** Sarah waited for a few seconds while the door to her quarters slid closed, and then let out her breath in a sigh of weariness. She fairly ripped at the zipper at the neck of her utility suit, and unfastened it to...
War's Oversight - Chapter 12 (incomplete)
War’s Oversight All rights reserved Copyright © 2019 by Shiantar This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed herein are fictional, and any resemblance to real people, whether living or dead, or to real events,...