There is a certain rhythm in life. Everyone and everything has their place in the grand scheme of things. My place simply happens to be on top. Always. That's just the way of things. My name is Stephen Crawford. A six-foot-four, lean and wiry, brown-skinned and gray-eyed, thirty-something Black man living in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. That's what I l...
(Alien Opportunities excerpt) (continued from Alien Household : Chapter 1) All of a sudden he became conscious that there had been no door to this room. Everyone in the house would surely know what was happening here. Others of Urilt's wives, and a few of their offspring had been in the lounge room where he had talked to Braidt in so civilised a way only a...
Those of us who live in the thirtieth century pride ourselves in our rationality and civility. Still, we crave adventure, as humans have always done for untold millennia. For that reason, I put on my jet backpack and hiking boot boosters and trekked to Sirius 265, a well populated world in a nearby stellar system. The star, known simply as the Flame to loca...
Chapter 6 Night on the town The sun was warm and high in the afternoon sky as Sarah and Michael walked down the street. The shops on a Saturday were busy with people and non humans. All the shops had branched out and changed their stock to accommodate a wide variety of Interspecies people. In doing so it seemed to make the street a little more inclusive and...
Chapter 7 A Question of Sentience One of the ruffians made a move, darting in and thrusting his knife towards Grankt. The saurian twisted, letting the point lodge in his armor. His fist lashed out and caught his attacker in the face. Blood clouded the water around his face and the dagger dropped slowly to the rock below. Grankt's other hand held his scather...
Desirée stared at the computer screen, looking for any possible mistakes in her last answer. At the top right-hand corner of her screen, the minutes counted down until the end of her Interplanetary Law exam. She had answered all the questions as best she could but, after 12 exams in the last week alone, exhaustion had become a major factor. She had already c...
'Everyone have everything?' Guy asked the girls who stood in the hallway with their backpacks. They confirmed and Guy closed the doors of their apartment behind him. 'All right, let's go.' They stopped at the toy store on their way to the train station. 'How's Sade?' asked Feli of Aada who stood outside cleaning the windows. 'She's doing very well.' Aada...
At last, after days of travel by foot, the long, straight, wide, hard, dirt-packed road came to an intersection. Yanari could turn back, continue ahead, or turn either left or right, as the roads crossed at perfect perpendicular angles. With the daylight slowly fading, the young nude adventurer decided that it would be best to turn back to the river she had...
Chapter Four "We are short one slave and you will be working the feast tonight for the king's sister," Agetha hissed, her glittering blue eyes pointing towards the sky. Devyn shot her eyebrows up and jumped a little at her voice. The shrillness of the old hag's tone had snuck up on her whilst she was polishing an old brass knob. So much so, Dev ended up dr...
Desdemona opened her eyes reluctantly. She'd been fighting consciousness for a while now, but the ever present, ever annoying ringing ensured she didn't fall back into deep sleep. Grumbling under her breath, she rolled over and reluctantly sat up. The silk covers pooled at her waist as she stretched and yawned, her long dark hair tangled over one shoulder....