The streets and sidewalks of Mogadishu baked under the blast furnace of a sun. Peter Hayes, sweating through his thin cotton shirt and light khaki pants, worked his way through the teeming foot traffic to the streetside café. He was several minutes late for the meeting, something he disliked, but the impression of the American operation was one of lounginess...
It is well known that an adventure needs to start somewhere. In your case, it could have started with your engagement, or even the day you embarked on the long journey to meet your future spouse. However, I am sorry to say, your adventure started a few weeks after both of those things, in a pile of rotting hardtack. Smoke was filling the small hole you were...
When that bastard of a guard rattled his stun stick against the bars of his cell Percival snarled. When he went to stand he almost fell over. He was tired, worn, and wearing down. There was a diabolical process in place to run all the remaining pirates into the ground. They were awakened at odd hours, given extensive interviews and interrogation, and hard ph...
Tossing and turning in bed, the blue-skinned Maliri girl whimpered as she suffered through a terrifying nightmare, one of her more frequently visited horrors from a broad and grotesque catalogue. She was standing legs parted and arms upraised, shackled to the floor by her ankles, and to the ceiling by her wrists. Stripped entirely bare, she was exposed and...
"Pilot, prepare to leave the dockage. Sheila, set course for sector seven... the last known position of the ship the ambassador's daughter was on. Set impulse engines to slingshot around the nearest gas giant, then ignite hyper engines to course. Communications, I need to file this report to headquarters, as soon as possible. As soon as we are underway, we n...
Gadar Sea GROG HAD TOLD ASH AND his companions the trip from Port Minato to Gillbaris Island would take close to a day provided they didn't run into any trouble. His ship was large enough and offered everyone quarters for the duration even giving Ash his cabin. Grog decided it would be best to stay on deck the entire trip, just in case they did run into tro...
A friend of mine was trying to relate to her significant other the wonder of online fantasy. Her exact quote was "You can be anything you want to be, anything at all. You could be a pirate!" I laughed at this, only because being a pirate had never entered into my own overactive fantasy ridden head. For the sake of friendship I opted to take a shot at it, le...
All That Glitters -- Ch 13 Snooper scoopers. Interplanetary News finds out about the activities of one Senator Andjuran. Because of the amount of abbreviations in this story, I include a glossary: Adm. Admiral, naval rank (see Cmdr.) -- above a captain Capt. Captain, in this series a naval rank -- usually a ship's commander CCO Chief Communications Off...
Chapter 1 – The Western Mediterranean Book four picks up our new life style and the surprising changes that occur Matt was there to meet us with the usual crew of cameramen and support vehicles. He conducted interviews with each of us in turn. I was not present at the other interviews, but he asked me about my reflections on the last twelve months. That t...
(A sequel to my previous Amazon Airship Pirates series, as promised, and another exercise in steampunk erotica. Well, I try to set the steampunk up properly before moving onto the erotica part – but we get there eventually.) "So, cadet," said Sergeant Tarani, "what is your assessment of yonder craft?" Emma Elphinstone squinted in the direction indicated...