"Mrs Carmall, excuse me, could you come over here for a moment, please?" Jennifer looked across the wide corridor towards the young gentleman standing outside the Customs and Revenue Inspectorate office. She flushed slightly, partly from surprise, partly from uncertainty as to why she should be called over at this stage. Carefully, she manoeuvred herself ou...
Starring Lucithana as Hana Song Kitty as Nora Nathan Ravenwood as Rakain Jason as Sam Cyrano Johnson as Xata * Previously, on Starfinder: Hana, Nora, Rakain and Sam - childhood friends and currently unemployed 19 and 20 year olds -- decided to set out together on an adventure with their shared friend, Amieko Woodwise (a local orphan.) However, while e...
Copyright 2012 Nora Quick Author's Note: This is the first of 10 stories set in the future after World War III. They are very short (8-10 pages double spaced in MS Word each), non-erotic, and follow a few POVs. It deals with polytheism heavily and there is a lot of violence and fighting. I hope you enjoy these stories, they are being developed into another...
You stand in front of the doorway, shivering in the cold that emanates from it. The clothes you're wearing aren't suited for the cold, but you know that soon you'll be somewhere else completely. As you hug yourself for warmth, a Gatekeeper approaches, her soberly-coloured robes offset by a fluorescent yellow hard hat. "Your papers are all in order, Mr....
As you slept a once in a millennium event occurred. The planets reached perfect alignment and as astronomers around the world observed it something totally unexpected happened. At the exact moment the planets reached their alignment in the instant it happened, the sun turned blue and yellow light poured out of it encompassing the entirety of the solar system...
"All right, here's the deal." Nomi slips into one of the mess benches, facing the other three. "They tell me installation will be about ten days, starting this afternoon. They sent the detailed doc covering all the new equipment, and I've put it on the ship's net. It's thousands of screens, though, so here's the quick and dirty." "We lose the main cargo bay...
Starship Traveler: Chapter Four: XXXXXXXXXXXXX It takes great patience to travel between stars." "I don't think I will ever be patient like that." "Revekah, you are just a newborn infant, only eighty-six years old. Do not discount your capacity to learn and grow. You will learn many things." "What did you do to pass all that time as you traveled?" "I...
Author's Note: This is blatantly and cheerfully and unapologetically B-grade and florid, so if you start grumbling that it's not like my normal stuff or that it's a bit overdone, you have been warned. ======================== Chapter 1: Captured! After a week's searching, and increasing frustration, we finally found the pirate ship responsible for kidnapp...
Chapter 3: The Roommate Amy was a math prodigy. At 23, she was already working on the highest levels of theoretical math, the kind that would be used in quantum physics. She loved her work, and it helped distract her from the fact that she was short, slightly overweight, and didn't attract much attention from boys. Her Asian features were the best thing she...
"Survey Mission log: Stardate 46130.0. Lt. Jamie Gordon recording. We have discovered access to the central computer for the Dyson Sphere, and currently it is absorbing our language so that we can communicate with it. At Commander Burton's orders, I have left my tricorder with the central computer hooked to the universal translator. The computer, which prefe...