A New Purpose Part 1
I sat back and reflected on the story I had to tell, while my wife passed by outside singing some kind of praise about her own awesomeness. I gave an amused chortle as her passage rattled the outside of our barn. I craned my head back to look at the...
Relentless Waves
The constant pounding of the relentless waves and the cry of birds were the only sounds on the remote island. A scene that should have been one of exquisite beauty....
A New Family Prelude
A New Family Prelude Dramatis Personae Family of 5 from the Archives: (Descended from United Americas of Old Earth) Ages are listed in Collective Standard Turns (Old Earth Years) - Ataksak (Mother) 41 - Negafook (Father) 42 - Nanook (elder son)...
The Days After
"Three... two... one...! Ready or not, here I come!" Liam took his hands off from over his eyes and looked around the back yard for his little sister. The 7-year-old's eyes quickly scanned over the trees, the swing set, his father's tool shed, and the...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 1
Something prodded my side and I absently brought a paw forward to bat it away. The nudging returned much further up my body accompanied by a whistle. Wake up Kimmy! Angie tittered, and nudged me again with her nose. Which was now offensively wet,...
Full Contact Science!
The youngling Child parted from her travel companions, who joined her in a brief song of farewell, when she spiraled down from the clouds toward the big compound of her working place sprawled where an abandoned town once lay. The asphalt of the roads...
A New Purpose Part 8
I roused from the stupor I had fallen into while simultaneously tracking the goings on around me and gnawing over what to do about the growing hunger that I felt distantly in my elongated body. I opened my right eye to glance down at those who had...
A New Purpose Part 5
Alex appeared as Irma lifted her wing away and looked at us over her body grinning like a loon. "I knew it. I knew there was an infestation of rattlesnakes around here somewhere." "And there go the happy feelings." I muttered, my glee evanescing, I...
A New Purpose Part 4
After some time, we awoke. I opened my eyes to see the gaping mouth of my yawning wife as she cleared her head. Once a moment had passed, she pulled my head closer to hers, and rubbed her cheek against my own while she made a rumbling noise the likes...
A New Purpose Part 6
As we sat there and tried to process what was happening. Brian and Serena had gradually overcame their initial hysteria and were talking rapidly to each other. Luke and Lucy were still whimpering beneath Kim's raised wing as she craned her head back...
The Complexities of Thumper Part 1
It was late summer as a remote and cold intelligence turned its attention towards a well-to-do neighborhood known as Jardins in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. In the basement of a mansion there, three figures had gathered. The mother Marcia, the...
Learning To Fall Part 1
It had only been a handful of weeks since Tom, Kim, and Irma had lost their humanity. All three of them now a species who's only known name was the one given to them by an enigmatic alien supercomputer/AI who had earned the name Thumper in certain...