Arrival It had been a long day for Rena. She was dead tired and her feet were throbbing from the weeks of travel to get to the small town laid out before her. The sight of the Inn not far away was heavenly and she couldn't wait to sink her sore body into a soft bed. She walked into the Inn, dusting off her boots before walking inside. She loved to travel bu...
A large black helicopter sets down kicking up sand and dust from the desert ground in a thick cloud. A number of figures step out and run towards the lab, carry weapons and devices. You can't make out any of their features, or determine what all they're carrying in through the grainy black and white night vision cameras trying their best to get a clear pictu...
This story is an interlude, a flashback explaining the backstory for Dr. Rene DuBois, played in the movie in my head by actress Lupita Nyong'o. Volunteer Lyris Price is played by Willa Holland. Paralaxia and CEO Devon Powell are creations of author "TheLearnedTentacle". ========= Seventy meters underground, below the innocuous-looking golden wheat fields...
Your stereo is blaring as you cruise down the highway. You weren't sure Nessie, your dad's old Buick, would successfully get you all the way to school, let alone back again. Another year was tough. Whoever thinks art school is all about pretty pictures has never had a six hour drawing studio. You had always been a weird scrawny kid, but at art school everyon...
(More of Chloe's unwilling participation in a crazed scientist's experiments involving human/alien reproduction) Chapter 3 The rest of the week passed quickly for Chloe. She went to as many tutorials and lectures that were scheduled plus also spent almost all of Thursday night in the library researching a presentation she had to give on Geriatric and Palli...
Still dark and gloomy, but at this point Vette was used to it. She was out of the loop on if the perpetual rainstorms and black were Sith related, but she really wouldn't be surprised if some Sith jerk had gotten the sun in his eyes on day and in retaliation, decided to make it rain for the rest of eternity. Nah, bad example. That was too understandable. T...
Foreword: I discovered Lovecraft as a teenager. I read everything he wrote. Later, August Derleth started Arkham House, publishing to preserve HPL's works and provide a place for the Mythos to continue. Over time, I read all those stories too. Then, I followed the contributing authors as they explored Mythos themes in their later books. Perhaps I got a littl...
Aathan was asleep. Floating. Dreaming. He hung motionless in the zero-g inside the padded chamber that was his bedroom on the Moebius. He could have slept in a bed, strapped in by a blanket like cargo, but he preferred to float free. His dreams were a jumble of cell biology experiments and being sexually ravaged by an alien woman with six hands. She looked s...
I'm at my gynecologist's office for my regular pelvic exam. This is my first visit with this doctor -- she was recommended to me by my regular doctor last month when he announced that he was leaving his practice. The nurse ushers me into the examination room, takes my temperature, blood pressure, all the usual stuff. Then she tells me to undress and put on...
"My God, what's he doing?" Riker reached out to touch Data's shoulder, and an intense flare of light momentarily blinded everyone in the hall outside the Computer Main Core Access. There was a thump, and when Picard's vision cleared he saw his first officer laying on the corridor floor, a grimace of pain on his chiseled features. Picard and Riker had been r...