Marie Curie and Calamity Jane Beat the Odds
Klaxons blared. Lights flickered unpredictably. Sparks flew abnormally high in the feeble, six-point-seven-percent-Earth-gravity of the dwarf planet. And…
Marie Curie and Calamity Jane Reach Pluto
“P…Pluto?” Marie asked. “What is that?” “Oh, just another dwarf planet,” Jane replied. She got a quizzical look on her face. “Say, where’d you come from…
Marie Curie and Calamity Jane Go to Pluto
Marie Curie awoke. She had no idea of where she was, or even of who she was. Prior to her blackout, the last thing she remembered was her working late by…
Out of the Rain
James wasn’t the only one out on a survey when all hell had broken loose. He wasn’t the only one stranded after his rover had been smashed by the falling ice…
Raining, Hardly.
It was raining. Tapping on his comm unit, James peered out of the cave toward Tombaugh Base. Static. He had arrived a month ago, and it had been raining since…
The Gladiator's Confinement
Suddenly a hot, wrenching pain in my thigh--like an arrow, but more forceful, and when I look down there is no shaft. I collapse to the ground, try to scramble…
The Gladiator's Deal
“And you would give up your soul, eternally, to me--give up your place in the heavens--just to go back into this wretched time?” “I would.” I could feel a…