Finding a Lightswitch
The first thing Rachel noticed when she stepped through the pod bay doors was a few dust motes dancing in the thin beam of her flashlight. The dust should not…
Search Party: The Smugglers
All right, gang, thanks for coming at this early hour, especially at such short notice. You know why we’re here. For all our sakes, we’ve gotta find every last…
To Be Tugged
Massive and hollow, Kraken tugged the ship, beckoning it down with lonely gravity. Albatross X remained diffidently aloft, soaring on graviton waves. Kraken…
Waking Up
_Growing old is a bitch. It’s the waking up. You wake up in parts, never jumping out of bed with all systems go. It’s more like a pull-start motor, including…
A Prince's Tale #2
It was subtle but significant to anyone with undulled eyes. I’d come back to a land that had changed in my absence. Similar types of faces and places, familiar…
Empty Nest Syndrome
We started building colony ships in the 2050s. They weren’t exactly visually impressive: the main bulk was the industrial nanofab, resembling a dull grey…
This couldn't possibly be a bad idea
Suspended tenderly as a raindrop on the end of thread, swaying side to side in the inky blue and crushing emptiness around it. A tender collaboration of steel…
Cowhide
“So, where to?” Hirc asked as he reclined the passenger seat of the Cadillac. He got comfortable and folded his hands behind his head. His unbuttoned denim…
Gypsy Road
“Living in the city,” Bo said, “can be a cold and lonely place to be.” He raised his massive woolly head and horns up past the windshield of the Cadillac…
Mana
July the Twentieth The Year of Our Lord 1533 _It is done. After months of tribulations and slow victories, we have finally drawn out the secret of the Incan…
Fuck the Moon
Fresh off the shuttle, Steve bounded across the Moon in his bulky EVA suit. He whooped loudly and almost crashed into another group of suited people. “Hey…
Brick Works
The workshop was a large area outside a small Italian town, situated atop a hill. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, and the orange brick roofs were…
In Which Yetis Eat My Face: The Stone Rockwell Prequel
“Stone Rockwell, you’ve done it again!” thought Stone Rockwell, ace explorer. He had discovered the ancient burial ground for the mythical Yeti, which he had…