Chapter 4-Aggressive Negotiations "This...is truly outstanding." Thelox muttered as he watched the skyline of New York City from his large, high rise apartment in downtown Manhattan. It would've cost an arm and a leg for a normal human, but a small use of his powers enabled him to get the best apartment in the building. A perfect living space for him to wor...
The year is 3300. For a long time everything was pretty great. Mankind ventured out into space and spread humanity to a hundred colonies and a dozen star systems. Mankind made contact with many alien species, weak and powerful, numerous and rare. There were wars, but humanity always came out on top. Back home on earth scarce resources prompted conflicts that...
The smell of coffee pulled Lira from a dreamless sleep. The bed was still a mess, clothes strewn across the covers, the space where Julian should be empty and cold. 'Julian?' she called out. A moment later, his handsome face appeared around the corner, and she was delighted to see that he was still naked, dressed in nothing but his slippers. She gave him a...
I had been running so fast that when the Kull hit me from behind, we went down in a twisted mass of long limbs and longer hair. I had lost the tie to my waist length braid hell knows where, probably miles back. And this Kull's hair was pretty long to, held back only enough to keep his eyes free. Kind of hard to be all berserker warmongering if you can't see...
Rick Thomas locked up the double doors on the old barn he used as a garage to run his automotive repair business. He had just finished putting four new tires on the car belonging to Karen Jansen, a girl whom he went to high school with. She is a single mom with one child, working as a nurse at the local health center in the small community they lived in. Ric...
Flying saucers, and alien abduction meant nothing more to Timothy Logan than a tired plot for a B movie, until the summer of '06. The summer of '06 also turned out to be one of the hottest on record. An El Nino wreaked havoc with the Jet Stream. Strange weather patterns kept the meteorologists up late, pouring over maps of cold fronts and warm fronts, high...
Talia was an independent young woman who enjoyed traveling. At the age of 25 she had already done two tours with Green Peace helping people of 3rd world countries. She had also spent time in the Jungles of South America and the wilds of Africa. Now she was on an archaeological trip to a remote island somewhere in the South pacific. There were ancient ruins t...
(The following contains scenes of non-consent. Chapter is shorter than normal.) Chapter 8 EARTHSIDE Mini stories of those on earth. Lyle Dane 35 Cum-cow The ships were nearly commonplace for almost a year. Some would be shot down by us, or other military. 90 percent were still escaping with young men from any place that offered little resistance. It t...
"Have you got a location?" "Not yet, Captain. The signal is very faint, and drops out a lot, but it's modulated like it's got what must be the ship's entire reactor driving it." The comms officer has drafted the astrogator and his assistant, and the three of them are tapping feverishly at their consoles as they try to find the signal's source. "Can you giv...
"So this is where you've been hiding?" "What do you mean? I was not aware I was hiding. Tell me strange visitor, what do you think I am hiding from?" "Very funny." ----------------------------------- Robin had prepared the Titans for battle as soon as the unidentified space craft appeared on their sensors, assuming the ships lack of response to the tower...